Prime Minister Scott Morrison is set to announce the restart of flights from India to Australia after a proposal was approved by the national security committee.  

The repatriation flights will only land in the Howard Springs facility in Darwin initially; up to two hundred passengers will be allowed on the first flight.

The travel ban is in place until May fifteenth, leaving nine thousand Australians unable to leave India, nine hundred of which are listed as vulnerable.

Rio Tinto investors have voted against giving big bonuses to top executives at the company’s AGM. 

This decision follows the mining company’s destruction of sacred Aboriginal caves at the Juukan Gorge in Western Australia’s Pilbara region, all for an iron-ore mine.

The 46,000 year old sites were sacred to the Puutu Kunti Kurrama and Pinikura people. Their destruction was not illegal, but nevertheless sparked global outrage, a federal parliamentary inquiry, and planned changes to cultural heritage laws.

A community housing provider, Brisbane Housing Company, is pushing for the opportunity to do more for the affordable housing shortage in Brisbane.

Brisbane Housing Company recently constructed one affordable housing complex in Woolloongabba and is beginning projects in Yeronga, Mount Gravatt, and South Brisbane, but says more needs to be done to shorten the public housing waitlist.

Housing and Communities Minister Leeanne Enoch says conversations about housing are at the forefront of budget discussions.

Australia’s largest regional art gallery will open its doors to the public this weekend on the Gold Coast.

The HOTA gallery will showcase its never seen before $32million collection; 46% of the collection is produced by female artists, a ratio not common in most galleries.

The new HOTA gallery also has the largest collections of indigenous artists in regional Australia. 

Five hundred family and friends held a tribute in the Fortitude Music Hall on Thursday in the memory of Trent Riley, a 26 year old skateboarder who is believed to have fallen overboard from his tinny on a fishing trip last month.

Police found the small vessel on April 14th near the Port of Brisbane, spurring a search by family, friends, community members, and Water Police to no avail. 

Trent’s brother, Shannon Riley, described his brother as the most incredible human on the planet.

A spokesman for Boris Johnson says there is an urgent need for de-escalation of tensions between the Channel Islands and France over fishing rights. 

Paris threatened to cut electricity to the largest of the Channel Islands, Jersey, following an accusation the UK is stalling fishing licenses required by French boats under post-Brexit trade deals. 

The spokesman says the threat is disproportionate and that two UK Navy vessels will be sent to the island as a precautionary measure.

South Australia health has advised hospitals in the state to review prescriptions and use risk mitigation strategies following reports of a computing error that adds an extra digit to dosage information. 

An error in the Sunrise computer system used throughout many South Australian hospitals has led to some errors when printing dosages. 10 milligrams may print as 100 milligrams, and 15 milligrams as 155 milligrams.

A spokesperson for SA Health says there are no known occurrences of overdose due to the error.

The ACT has become the first state to recognise organ donation on death certificates. 

Families of donors who have donated organs can now apply to have their loved one’s death certificate read, “The deceased gave a gift of life, generously donating organ/tissue,” along with a letter of acknowledgement by ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr.

ACT Human Rights Minister Tara Cheyne says she is hopeful that the ACT’s decision will become a template for other states to follow.