Online news outlets Amazon, The Age, and The Guardian among others were temporarily shut down due to an unexplained global website outage linked to provider 'Fastly.'

Shortly after the outage, the United Kingdom's attorney general tweeted that the country's main gov.uk was down, providing an email for queries. 

Adapting to the outage, popular tech website the Verge took to Google Docs to report news, while UK technology editor at The Guardian started a Twitter thread to report on the problems.

Although Melbourne's lockdown is expected to end later this week, health authorities are warning some restrictions will likely remain in place. 

Melbourne GP Dr. Todd Cameron says that the end of the lockdown is coming but he's not sure Melbourne residents will be able to do things as normal such as regular catch-ups, travel, or have large gatherings. 

Melbourne remains to be on track to exit lockdown at 11:59 pm this Thursday despite the emergence of the highly contagious Delta Coronavirus cluster.

Norman Park residents are protesting cuts to Brisbane's public transport that they say leave residents out of options

A protestor against the Brisbane City Council's cuts to the New-Farm ferry on Monday says "a 3-minute Cross River Ferry now takes about 45 minutes by car in peak hour traffic"

Norman Park resident Chelsea Clarke rejects the state government initiative to promote public transport being a 'Golden Go-Card' giveaway for each week of June, which gives the receiver of the card unlimited access to public transport for a year.

A tent city has been situated in Townsville ahead of tonight's State of Origin game. The tent city, or otherwise referred to as this week's Footy Basecamp has the capacity of accomodating up to 200 people.

The creation of the footy base camp comes after it was deemed to be a creative and short term solution to the city's severe accommodation shortages, as thousands of fans travel to the region for a sold-out State of Origin clash

Variants of viruses, such as that causing COVID-19, can now be quickly studied in the laboratory, even before they emerge in nature and become a major health problem.

New technology has been developed at the University of Queensland and can now enable researchers to manipulate viruses synthetically allowing rapid analysis and mapping of new potential virus variants. 

Palestinean twin activists Muna El-Kurd and Mohommed El-Kurd have become the faces of a campaign to halt Palestinian evictions from the East Jerusalem neighbourhood of Sheikh Jarrah. 

Footage was released on social media showing Muna being handcuffed and escorted away by israeli officers. Her brother Mohommad later turned himself in after receiving a summons.

They have since been released from prison.

The Australian National University has cracked the code that will enable us to send spacecraft to interstellar space.

The spacecraft is smaller than an average craft and uses lasers to navigate through space.

Scientists anticipate that they may be able to see results in 20 years, making it the first craft allowing us to report interstellar activity in our own lifetimes.

Brisbane researchers are urging key decision-makers to help close the educational gap and to better Australia’s treatment of children and young people experiencing disadvantage.

The UQ study, named the COVID Project, aims to consult with government stakeholders to assist families with financial disadvantages caused by COVID-19 to ensure students at risk of falling behind receive extra support.

Foreign Minister Karen Andrews has said a three year old who has developed sepsis in immigration detention and her family, are unlikely to be resettled in Australia. 

Three-year-old Tharnicaa Murugappan was flown into Perth Airport for a suspected blood infection after suffering from vomiting and dizziness 10 days prior to detention on Christmas Island. 

The Murugappan family, Tamil asylum seekers, were controversially removed from their home in Biloela awaiting deportation in 2017. 

The construction of a new cross-river bridge linking South bank to the Queens Wharf Development area, will force Brisbane to avoid Brisbane’s CBD with toll waivers as the Riverside Expressway is expected to close for an entire weekend.

The temporary closure will allow a major bridge section to be lifted over the roads. 

The Riverside Expressway will be off limits to traffic in both directions between Elizabeth and Margaret streets from 10pm on June 18, until 5am on June 21.