Australia’s Covid-19 vaccine rollout sparks new hopes International travel could return within months thanks to Air New Zealand. Air New Zealand has started trialing a vaccine passport, an app that will give passengers current information on tests and vaccines needed to enter their destination. While passengers will still carry verified copies of their COVID-19 test results, Air New

Mining giant Rio Tinto’s annual report shows Michael L’Estrange, the board member tasked with investigating the company’s blasting of Western Australia’s Juukan Gorge last year, received a forty six per cent raise in director’s fees for heading the inquiry. Rio Tinto blasted the forty six thousand year old Juukan Gorge rock caves as part of a mining excavation project last year, prompting international outcry due to the site’s cultural significance to Indigenous Australians. 

University of Queensland scientist, Doctor Anthony Romilio found an unknown species of geese while examining a 4600 year old painting titled Meidum Geese. The painting shows a now extinct speckled goose.

Filming starts this week on the Gold Coast for local feature film Black Site produced by Queensland’s Todd Fellman. The film will create approximately 200 jobs for crew, cast and extras and inject over nine million dollars into the state economy. 

The Princess Alexandra Hospital in Wooloongabba is set to become one of Queensland’s 6 hubs for the rollout of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccine hubs are spread around Queensland to ensure the vaccine can reach those in need quickly, including frontline health workers and aged care residents. In a statement, state health minister Yvette D’Ath said the strict limitations on storage, transport and

A fire in Browns Plains on Brisbane’s southside has destroyed a unit block after it broke out this morning.

Ten crews were dispatched to the scene on Myola Street at 4:00am, and the blaze was under control in 30 minutes, according to emergency services.

The University of Queensland’s scientists have developed an ultraviolet ‘television’ display, aiming to help researchers better understand how animals see the world.

Standard monitors have been used previously, but none have been able to test ultraviolet vision - the ability to see wavelengths of light shorter than 400 nanometres.

Just a content warning for this next story, as it contains themes of sexual assault.

A third woman has come forward to allege she was sexually assaulted in 2016 by the same political staffer accused of assaulting Brittany Higgins inside Parliament House.

The following story discusses sensitive themes, including abortion and sexual health.

The cost of contraception is pushing women in Venezuela into unplanned pregnancies and unsafe abortions.