No new Covid-19 cases in Queensland
The state government has announced there have been no new local cases of Covid-19 reported in Queensland overnight.
The Sunshine Coast is on alert after a woman traveling from Melbourne tested positive for COVID-19.
The woman tested positive on June 10th and her husband tested positive yesterday in isolation.
Authorities are encouraging residents to check whether they have been to any of the growing list of exposure sites around south east Queensland.
Electric buses come to Brisbane
From next week, Brisbane will see four new ‘jacaranda-coloured’ electric buses joining the free city loop route.
The $3.3 million dollar two-year trial is set to determine if electric buses should be implemented.
Brisbane Lord Mayor, Adrian Schrinner, says the electric buses are cheaper to run and put out zero emissions.
Hordes of Australians distrust AI
A University of Queensland study found that 47% of Australians are distrustful of Artificial Intelligence.
Professor Gillespie, one of the study’s lead investigators, cited low awareness and understanding of how AI technology works for the findings.
The study identified critical areas that needed to be addressed concerning AI, including building trust and acceptance of AI through strengthening current regulations and laws.
Indigenous workers' taking Commonwealth to court
Northern Territory Indigenous Workers have gone to the Federal court and are taking legal action over decades of lost income during the last century.
Shine Lawyers, who have taken the case, said the commonwealth held workers' paychecks in unreleased trust-accounts under so-called ‘protective legislation’ between 1933 and 1972.
Anyone who believes their wages have been stolen, including descendants of deceased workers, are eligible to join the action.
Indigenous death in custody case taken to UN
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International human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson is taking the death of an Indigenous man in custody to the United Nations.
Robertson said there was “no proper investigation" into the 2015 death of David Dungay in prison custody.
He says lodging a complaint with the UN is necessary, because unlike most advanced countries, Australia doesn’t have a bill of rights which protects the right to life.
Fatal Pakistan train collision
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Twenty five people have been killed in a train collision in Pakistan earlier this week.
With the total number of injured people unknown, reports from villagers say anywhere from up to fifty people were sent to hospital.
It’s understood that the collision occurred after a derailed train ran into another train on the track.
Vigil for Biloela family in Brisbane
A vigil for Tharnicaa, the youngest member of the Biloela family, who were sent to detention on Christmas Island, will take place in the Brisbane CBD this evening.
Organisers asked federal minister Karen Andrews to use her ministerial powers to bring Tharnicaa and her family home to Biloela, and believe their detention is ‘cruel and unnecessary’.
The three-year-old will spend her fourth birthday battling a blood infection in a Perth hospital.
The vigil is taking place on Friday the 11th of June at 5.30pm in Brisbane’s King George Square.
Brisbane unanimously endorsed by Olympic Committee
Brisbane is set to close its bid to host the 2032 Olympics after it was unanimously endorsed by the International Olympic Committee overnight.
This is a break int tradition following a change in the selection process as cities no longer have to outbid each other to host the event.
Whilst all levels of government support the vote, the reaction from the community is mixed, with many citing concerns for Brisbane’s liveability.
New fees for Australians coming to Queensland
State Treasurer, Cameron Dick, will announce a drivers licence transfer fee for Australians wanting to relocate to Queensland from July 2022.
The fee of $78.75 is expected to raise $17 million over three years, as more than 61,000 Australians are predicted to relocate to the North East.
Mr Dick says Australians will have to pay for the privilege to live in the sunshine state.
China launching first mission to space station
China is preparing to launch its first manned mission to its new, orbiting space station.
The China Manned Space Engineering Office said it moved the Long March-two-F Y1-twelve rocket, carrying the Shenzhou-twelve spacecraft to the launch pad as of yesterday in preparation for its first crewed mission into space.
The astronauts will stay in space for three months during which they will do a range of tasks from science experiments to maintenance.
This will be the third of eleven space missions planned by China to complete its space station by the end of 2021.