New South Wales premier Gladys Berejiklian says states should not be able to restrict who enters their hotel quarantine after 9 new COVID-19 cases were recorded in New South Wales yesterday night. Ms. Berejiklian says no matter why people are returning to Australia, the quarantine system should be kept as strong as possible and it should not be up to the states to limit travelers returning. Case numbers from overseas are rising in Australia’s hotel quarantine due to the South Asia grapple and in the past seven days over 40 cases have been detected.

A Russian prosecutor has ordered the political network of prominent Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny to suspend its operations as it decides whether to classify the network as an extremist group. The court ruling bans Navalny’s colleagues from holding political rallies or engaging in election-related political activity as the prosecutor’s office asserts that they have been engaged in illegal activities. Alexei Navalny is Russian President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent opposition and is currently serving a three and a half year prison sentence for parole violations.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson denies a press report claiming he allegedly said he’d rather see bodies pile high in their thousands than impose another national lockdown in the country. The Daily Mail claims the comment was made in 2020 but Mr. Johnson says it is 'total rubbish'. In January this year a third lockdown was ordered after infections began to rise again. This claim comes after allegations of ethical breaches and cronyism against Mr. Johnson and his Conservative government ahead of next week’s regional and local elections.

NASA’s new toaster-sized machine MOXIE has converted carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into breathable oxygen. 

MOXIE can produce ten grams of oxygen per hour and will be run nine times over the next two years under a variety of conditions as proof of concept.

MOXIE principal investigator Michael Hecht said it’s estimated one metric ton of oxygen would be needed to support astronauts living and working on Mars for one year.

The first ever study to screen the children of parents who helped clean up the Chernobyl disaster has found no mutations were associated with their parent’s high radiation exposure.

The children were all born between nineteen eighty seven and two thousand and two, and had their genomes analyzed for any mutations.

The study finds the parent’s radiation exposure had no impact on the children they conceived.

Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison disagreed with US president Joe Biden’s calls for increasing greenhouse gas emissions targets at a UN Climate Summit this morning. 

Australia will continue to aim for a reduction of between 26-28% on 2005 levels of greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, almost half of the US’ proposed revised target of 50-52%.

Morrison reiterated Australia would take a “technology, not taxes” approach to climate change. 

The Queensland government has announced the ABC will be filming a crime series exclusively in Queensland, with locations stretching from the South East through to the tropical Far North.

The series, called Troppo, is based on a bestselling novel by Candice Fox called Crimson Lake. 

The project is expected to bring $10 000 000 dollars to the Queensland economy, and create over 130 jobs