French Prime Minister Jean Castex said France will resume vaccinations following a report by the European Medicines Agency confirmed it was safe. 

Australia’s Race Discrimination Commissioner Chin Tan proposed a new national anti-racism framework on Wednesday. 

The federal government’s funding for anti-racism initiatives ended in 2015. The Australian Human Rights Commission has covered the issue since. 

Coles has today announced the launch of its new sustainability initiative, called ‘Together to Zero’. 

The strategy involves delivering net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. The entire Coles Group aims to be powered by 100% renewable energy by the end of the 2025 financial year. 

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The Australian Bureau of Statistics has revealed the Queensland unemployment level has fallen from 7% to 6.1%.

Conus Consultancy economist Peter Faulkner says full-time employment has never been higher in Queensland. It now sits 2.3% higher than one year ago.

A paper published in the journal Science revealed the existence of a shark that was wider than it was long thanks to its long wing-like fins. Named the Aquilolamna milarcae It boasted a wingspan of 1.9 metres and likely glided through the water filter-feeding on plankton.

The shark lived from 93 million years ago until an extinction event 66 million years ago led to a decline in plankton in the oceans.

Flinders University palaeontologist John Long said the discovery shows the awesome plasticity of evolution in response to food sources. 

Murrayville farmer Trevor Wyatt is hoping to see a malleefowl chick this year after 60 years of supervising a nest on his family’s farm.

Wyatt was shown the nest at 6 years old and still supervises it now at 74.

Mallefowl hens lay 20 eggs yearly but only one survives to adulthood thanks to predators.

An Australian led initiative has published a document called the Declaration on the Rights of the Moon. The Declaration calls for the Moon to be regarded as "a sovereign natural entity in its own right” by giving it legal personhood, following real life examples like the Whanganui river in New Zealand, or the Atrato River basin in Colombia. 

The Mackay Hospital and Health Service opened a new free testing clinic for STIs. 

This initiative has been developed because the central Queensland region recorded its highest ever yearly numbers of gonorrhea and chlamydia in 2021, despite the ongoing pandemic.