The Australian Bureau of Statistics has revealed the Queensland unemployment level has fallen from 7% to 6.1%.

Conus Consultancy economist Peter Faulkner says full-time employment has never been higher in Queensland. It now sits 2.3% higher than one year ago.

A paper published in the journal Science revealed the existence of a shark that was wider than it was long thanks to its long wing-like fins. Named the Aquilolamna milarcae It boasted a wingspan of 1.9 metres and likely glided through the water filter-feeding on plankton.

The shark lived from 93 million years ago until an extinction event 66 million years ago led to a decline in plankton in the oceans.

Flinders University palaeontologist John Long said the discovery shows the awesome plasticity of evolution in response to food sources. 

Murrayville farmer Trevor Wyatt is hoping to see a malleefowl chick this year after 60 years of supervising a nest on his family’s farm.

Wyatt was shown the nest at 6 years old and still supervises it now at 74.

Mallefowl hens lay 20 eggs yearly but only one survives to adulthood thanks to predators.

An Australian led initiative has published a document called the Declaration on the Rights of the Moon. The Declaration calls for the Moon to be regarded as "a sovereign natural entity in its own right” by giving it legal personhood, following real life examples like the Whanganui river in New Zealand, or the Atrato River basin in Colombia. 

The Mackay Hospital and Health Service opened a new free testing clinic for STIs. 

This initiative has been developed because the central Queensland region recorded its highest ever yearly numbers of gonorrhea and chlamydia in 2021, despite the ongoing pandemic. 

The old ABC site in Toowong has been sold to Consolidated Property Group for $43 million dollars.

Maiwar state MP Michael Berkman has been urging council and state government to buy back the land since the federal government sold it to a developer in 2006. 

Townsville-based charity LiteHaus International has built 20 computer labs made from electronic trash for 20 Papua New Guinea schools in the Western Highlands Province. 

Now, 300 fully-recycled electronic devices are being sent to Papua New Guinea from Queensland. They will give 18,000 students access to e-learning for the first time.

A new report from the Coalition MPs called for places in hotel quarantine being reserved for incoming skilled migrant workers.  

Liberal MP Julian Leeser said Australians wanting to return home will still have priority, but skilled migrants should be next in line.