Labor is pressuring the Morrison government  to allow more than 3000 Myanmarese citizens to stay in Australia once their visas expire.

The push comes after more than 700 civilians are estimated to have been killed in violent crackdowns since the February 1 military coup.

There are more than 3,500 temporary visa holders from Myanmar in Australia, about half of them students.

A voice actor who played Apu in The Simpsons has issued a public apology and says he regrets playing the role.

Hank Azaria, a white man, worked on the show for 10 years and voiced a number of characters including Apu, an Indian-American convenience store owner. 

Azaria left the show in 2020 after the character’s representation was heavily criticised for reinforcing potentially harmful racial stereotypes. 

Queensland's coronavirus restrictions are set to ease tomorrow from midday with state health officials to confirm the details this morning.

It's likely there will be no legal requirement to wear masks indoors when you are grocery shopping, taking public transport, or in restaurants and pubs when not eating or drinking.

Weddings and funerals will likely be allowed to have 200 guests and 100 people will be allowed in a private residence.

Covid-19 has been detected in the princess Alexandra hospital ward 5D even after it had received a deep clean.

The hospital was locked down twice in recent months, after two workers in the 5D ward contracted the virus from a positive returned traveller.

Griffith University Infectious diseases expert, Professor Nigel McMillan says “The most likely scenario is that somewhere in the air conditioning there's a failure or an issue”.

Queensland Health is owed forty four million dollars in unpaid patient bills from people ineligible for Medicare.

A Queensland Health spokesperson said patient care was its top priority and no-one would be turned away from a public hospital, regardless of their health insurance situation.

Kalbarri in Western Australia has been described as looking ‘like a war zone’ after it was hit by cyclone Seroja on Sunday. 

The state’s emergency services have reported that 70% of structures in the rural town have been damaged in wake of the category 3 system. 

The cyclone crossed WA’s coast late on Sunday night, producing maximum wind gusts of up to 170km per hour. 

Previously declared endangered one-horned rhinos now have an upgraded population status of ‘vulnerable’. 

This follows a census of Rhino numbers in Nepal this year, where it has been found their numbers have increased from 645 to 752 since 2015. 

Nepal is one of just a few countries where one-horned rhinos are found. Their numbers declined dramatically in the 1970’s due to civil unrest and deforestation but numbers are beginning to increase in recent decades because of conservation efforts.

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny  is suing a prison for withholding the Koran which he intended to study while serving time in detainment outside Moscow.

Mr Navalny is serving two-and-a-half years in prison for violating the terms of his probation from a 2014 embezzlement conviction which Mr Navalny has rejected as fabricated, and the European Сourt of Human Rights found it "arbitrary and manifestly unreasonable".

Moorooka Ward councillor Steve Griffiths is calling for greater penalties for developers after a pre-1946 home was completely demolished after an agreement was made between the council and the developer that it would only be a partial demolition.

Brisbane City Council says they are investigating the matter, however, Mr Griffiths says the Council is weak in terms with how they enforce this, and even weaker when they come to fining Developers.

Questions have been raised over links between Liberal MP Andrew Laming's office and a Redland Bay rugby club.

The Southern Bay Cyclones Rugby Union Club was promised half a million dollars in the federal government's Female Facilities and Water Safety Stream Program.

The southern bay cyclones don’t have any female teams listed on their website The secretary of the rugby club is James Eaton, whose wife Stephanie works in Andrew Laming's electorate office.