Kabi elders in Gympie are calling for supporters to urgently join them at the sacred Djaki Kundu site today.

The site commonly known as the Gympie pyramids is under threat by the expansion of the Bruce highway, the Department of Transport and Main Roads gave Kabi elders an eviction notice to vacate the site within 48 hours.

More than 60 people are dead and hundreds are missing near the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital Kinshasa after a boat capsized in the Congo River. The DRC Minister for Humanitarian Action says 700 people were on the boat when it capsized. The capsizing has been attributed to the overloading of people and cargo on the boat.

The World Health Organisation approved the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use last night in a move that will facilitate the vaccination of millions of people in developing nations. While wealthy countries have been able to secure vaccines on their own, much of the developing world relies on the W-H-O for its jabs. The AstraZeneca vaccine is cheaper and easier to distribute than the already-

More than 155 stakeholders, including thirteen retired judges have signed an Open Letter to the Attorney-General opposing the Federal Government’s bill to abolish the specialist, stand-alone Family Court. The family court merger bill would collapse the Family Court into the Federal Circuit Court. Stakeholde

Real estate firm Jones Lang LaSalle’s chief executive Stephen Conry says he does not believe pundits’ optimism for the stay-at-home work model, asserting that we will be returning to the office as soon as possible.bHe says if an employer asks workers to come into the office ‘then you are sort of obliged to turn up’ and that working from home has just as many inconveniences as an office environment. 

A group of doctors published an article yesterday in the Medical Journal Of Australia on recent advances in non-invasive prenatal testing. Brisbane maternal-foetal medicine specialist, Doctor Joseph Thomas explains false positives for rare conditions can lead to invasive testing and unnecessary anxiety in pregnant women. Doctor Thomas work

Brisbane tech entrepreneur Bevan Slattery says he will contribute a significant portion of the capital needed to build the proposed HyperOne national fibre network. The proposed one point five billion dollar project would work in conjunction with the NBN and would be capable of carrying more internet traffic than the rest of the country’s fibre optic networks combined. 

Last night, Villefranche hospital became the second French hospital in as many weeks to be targeted by hackers demanding money in return for the release of hospital data.

The hospital staff were forced to move offline, managing to continue most of their operations without giving in to the hackers’ demands.

Former Nigerian Finance Minister Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala will become the first female and first African to serve as Director General of the World Trade Organisation.

Okonjo-Iweala says she hopes to refocus the organisation after failed international negotiations and an inability to deal with China’s socialist market economy.