Queensland nurses and midwives are taking industrial action against Queensland Health. 

Queensland's Nurses and Midwives Union are concerned health care workers treating COVID-19 patients are at risk of contracting the virus because they are not being properly fit-tested for respiratory protection equipment. 

Union secretary Beth Mohle said Queensland Health’s response has been inadequate and vaccines are not the only preventative measure required.

The newly appointed chief executive of Gold Coast City Council has resigned for health reasons.

David Edwards had been in the job for three weeks after being appointed to the role despite findings of misconduct in his previous state government job.

Gold Coast City councillors will meet next week to decide whether to appoint another candidate or readvertise. 

Legal advocates are calling for a national response to the disproportionate imprisonment of Indigenous people. 

30 years on from the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, the imprisonment rate of Indigenous people is more than 20 times the imprisonment rate of the adult population.

Law Council of Australia President Jacoba Brasch says the solutions First Nations peoples have consistently provided must be implemented and prioritised.

Queenslanders who travel to take up farm work could be eligible for up to 15 hundred dollars under a new scheme.

Under the Back to Work Agriculture Incentive Scheme, participants will receive $500 for completing two weeks of full-time work and an additional $1000 for completing 8 weeks of work. 

Minister for Agricultural Industry Mark Furner says the scheme supports people from all walks of life to relocate and try farm work.

Australian troops are expected to withdraw from Afghanistan following discussions between Scott Morrison and US President Biden.  

According to the defence department, Australia currently contributes around eighty per cent of defence personnel in Afghanistan. 

The action comes after President Biden announced he will withdraw troops from Afghanistan by September, ending the country’s longest war.

Australia’s first underground waste disposal system will replace some rubbish trucks and wheelie bins in South East Queensland by June.

A 6.5-kilometre network of underground pipes has been placed under Maroochydore in the Sunshine Coast over the past five years. 

The underground rubbish system will see waste and recyclables from buildings and public bins vacuumed up and transported to disposal facilities.

Protests erupt for a third night in the United States, after police shot and killed a Black man during a traffic stop. 

Officer Kim Potter shot 20-year-old Daunte Wright in Minneapolis on Sunday, reigniting national conversations and protests about policing and use of force.

Officers used pepper spray, rubber bullets and stun grenades against protesters in Minneapolis. 

Queensland’s heightened COVID-19 restrictions have eased as of 6am this morning, after no new cases of community transmission.  

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk announced that as of today, there is no legal requirement to wear masks indoors. 

Visitor restrictions on hospitals, aged care centres, prisons and disability accommodation have also been lifted.