A new app is now available which makes it easier to check in to hospitality businesses around Queensland. 

The app will remove some of the everyday burdens of COVID-19 restrictions for licensed venues, cafes and their customers, according to Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk.

A trigger warning on this story, which contains information regarding allegations of sexual assault. 

There’s wide-spread coverage in newspapers across Australia this morning of the historical sexual assault allegations levelled against two current parliamentarians.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has found that Members’ implementation plans for reduction in emissions levels ‘fall far short of what is required’.

Low tide in Venice left canals almost empty on Sunday, just months after the city was hit by flooding.

During the peak of the floods, St Mark’s Square was flooded, causing damage to shops and other businesses.

Now, gondolas and boats were beached in the canals as water levels reached a peak of -48cm.

Protected areas of Brazils Amazon Rainforest are being illegally sold over Facebook marketplace.

Some of these plots are as large as 1000 football pitches, with many of these areas being home to Indigenous communities;  activists have begun urging the tech giant to do more to protect their land from exploitation.

Gold Coast Council CEO Dale Dickson has been replaced after serving as chief executive for the council after eighteen years. 

Mayor Tom Tate revealed the news to an email to council employees announcing the role has already been offered to someone else. 

Human trials for a universal COVID vaccine are set to start later this year. While existing vaccines like Pfizer and Astra-Zeneca were developed in record time and are performing well, they may lose effectiveness as the virus mutates, or as new coronaviruses develop. 

A universal vaccine would be able to target a fundamental region of the virus that does not change across mutations.