Central Queensland University researchers have Identified deficiencies in influenza vaccines that leave the jabs less effective for Indigenous people.

The research focused on and proteins called HLAs which are highly prevalent in Indigenous populations.

Jirrbal man and Central Queensland University Professor Adrian Miller says they hope to improve vaccines dramatically.

The Brisbane City Council is holding a Homeless Connect event tomorrow from 9am to 2pm at the Brisbane Showgrounds.  

The event will provide opportunities for people to access legal help, healthcare, accommodation referrals, help with centrelink, free haircuts, clothing and shoes.

It is the 24th Homeless connect event since it started in 2006.

Elliot heads on the coast near Bundaberg is putting up its hand to host the Olympic kite-foiling sporting event for the Olympic games in 2032.

Kite-foiling is similar to kitesurfing, but less about tricks and more about speed.

However, Queensland Kite-foilers must first overcome the fact that Brisbane has not yet been selected to host the 2032 Games and that Kite foiling is not an Olympic sport.

At least 5,000 migrants have reached Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco by swimming or walking at low tide.

Ceuta is one of only two European Union  land borders with Africa, making them popular entry points for migrants seeking a better life in Europe.

The energy and emissions reduction minister, Angus Taylor is moving to expand the mandate of the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (Arena) to allow it to fund carbon capture and storage projects, and hydrogen that can be produced from fossil fuels.

The Greens leader, Adam Bandt, says they will be moving to disallow the regulations, saying it will funnel public money to big coal and gas corporations, and could also be a breach of the Arena Act, which made clear the agency’s function was to fund renewable technology.

The Annual report by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare shows that four in 10 Australian children in out-of-home care are Indigenous.

The report found that 46,000 children in out-of-home care in mid-2020, 63 per cent of that group were living with family or other Indigenous caregivers.

32 per cent of children in out-of-home care were aged 10 to 14, while a similar percentage were five to nine years old.

Queensland authorities are waging a war against Yellow crazy ants in Far North Queensland which is known to be one of the world's most invasive ant species.

Approaching the halfway mark of a 10-year eradication plan in the far north, the Wet Tropics Management Authority has killed off about 85 per cent of the known infestations through aerial baiting and boots-on-the-ground treatment.

Since their discovery, the species has set up strongholds in pockets across the country but particularly in Queensland's far north.

The far north Queensland community of Doomadgee are continuing to wait on installation of much needed dialysis machines in the town.

The hospital has the machines but the town's water quality is deemed too poor to be used in the machines.

North West Hospital and Health Service's acting chief executive Karen Murphy said "The complexity is that the water quality going into these chairs has to be very specific.”

The Queensland Community Alliance has announced the 2021 Budget Assembly will now be held on Monday 31st of May with Deputy Premier Steven Miles now addressing the assembly on Queensland Premiers behalf.

The Palestinian foreign minister has sent a letter to the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor’s Office, calling for an investigation into Israel’s “war crimes” in Gaza, the West Bank, and Jerusalem.

According to a Twitter post by the Palestinian Mission to the Netherlands, Ambassador Rawan Sulaiman (Sulay-man) delivered the letter by hand from Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki, calling for “accountability for the war crimes and crimes against humanity that continue to be committed in Palestine, including in Sheikh Jarrah and Gaza.