A series of explosions in Equatorial Guinea has left 98 people dead and over 600 injured in the city of Bata. The blasts were caused by a fire at Nkoa Ntoma military base and levelled several buildings both inside and around the base. The Spanish government says it will immediately dispatch humanitarian aid to its former colony, which is in the grips of a COVID-19 economic downturn.

Confrontations between police and protestors continue to escalate in Myanmar as 2 people were killed in Kachin state and hundreds were surrounded in Yangon last night. The protests, which are in response to the February first military (koo) coup, are becoming increasingly deadly as the police and military crack down on opposition. While the international community is widely condemning the military’s se

The state government says it will subsidise school excursions to the Great Barrier Reef as part of its COVID-19 recovery program. Premier Anastacia Palaszczuk says more than 6500 Queensland students will be eligible for the $150 grants to explore North Queensland. On her Twitter, Palaszczuk said the scheme will give students the opportunit

Queensland Pacific Metals (QPM) say they may have found a way to make their planned Townsville Energy Chemicals Hub a net negative CO2 producer.

The nickel refinery is set to produce 36 per cent less CO2 than the industry average, with QPM saying it could take this into net negative territory if it can find a way to use methane from Queensland’s coal mines for extra CO2 credits.

North Queensland cane growers say the state government’s new environmental regulations on farming near the Great Barrier Reef will in fact hinder Queensland’s biofutures industry.

Canegrowers chief executive Dan Galligan says cane is the best converter of biomass energy in the world and will therefore form a large part of the emerging biofuels industry.

The Palaszczuk government loan has provided support to hundreds of local Queensland tourism operators and suppliers. 

The federal government says it will uncap its apprenticeship wage subsidy scheme and extend it for an additional 12 months.

The government says it will facilitate 70 000 new hires in the next year, taking the total number of new apprentices to 100 000.

Shepparton, a city in Victoria, has parents scared to send their children back to school after violence and racism at Greater Shepparton Secondary College. 

Koori and Ethnic community leaders are to meet this week to try to resolve the racial issues that have led to violence in the school against more than two thousand students.

Hundreds of activists have taken to the streets of Minneapolis demanding justice and the conviction of Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer accused of murdering George Floyd. 

The trial was scheduled to begin on Monday but has been delayed for at least a day after the Minnesota Court of Appeals told the Judge to reconsider prosecutors’ request to reinstate an additional charge of third-degree murder.