Unions are demanding clarity on the vaccine plan for aged care and disability support workers from the government. 

The Australian Council of Trade Unions Assistant Secretary Liam O’Brien says these workers are the last healthcare workers in the country to be vaccinated and need answers. 

A social media platform and its Chinese parent company are facing a billion-dollar privacy lawsuit in London’s high court. 

The class-action claim children who used the app, TikTok, from May 2018 may have had their private personal information illegally collected. 

Australia will help new fund research into low-emission technology. 

PM Scott Morrison announced a $566-million investment in research partnerships with other countries for new technology like green steel, small modular nuclear reactors, and soil carbon sequestration. 

Toondah Harbour development planned for protected wetlands in Moreton Bay will not be made public following a tribunal ruling. 

The Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal ruled in favour of the Queensland Government and Walker Corporation preventing the release of their development.  

Experts say mental health initiatives and campaigns in rural Queensland are having an increasing impact. 

Royal Flying Doctor Service councillor Alex Donoghue says more and more men are taking responsibility for their mental health. 

"We've gone from really having to lobby hard to seeing more and more people coming forward," says Ms Donoghue.

More than 4 million dollars worth of holiday vouchers will be up for grabs in Queensland in an attempt to boost tourism in Brisbane and the Whitsundays.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced the initiative, which will see 30 thousand vouchers valued at 100 dollars given to recipients for select tourism experiences and accommodation, early this morning. 

Queensland’s Attorney-General Shannon Fentiman is considering launching an independent review into how police-related deaths in custody are investigated in Queensland. 

The review was recommended during the inquest of Brisbane mother Cindy Miller’s death at an Ipswich watch house in 2018.

At least 24 COVID-19 patients in western India have died because the oxygen supply to their ventilators ran out after the tanker refilling it suffered a leak. 

The nation is facing an oxygen shortage and a surge of COVID-19 cases.