Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has suggested that Australia assist Papua New Guinea with its COVID-19 vaccine roll-out amid a recent virus outbreak. Palaszczuk says the assistance would not only help to prevent a potentially devastating outbreak in the Torres Strait Islands, but also protect mainland Queenslanders as many Papuans fly in and out of mining jobs in North Queensland. 

Gautum Adani’s wealth has jumped to $16 billion u.s to $50 billion u.s. This has proved more valuable than Elon Musk’s Tesla and Jeff Bezos’s Amazon this year. Adani plans to go ahead with the Carmichael thermal coal project in central Queensland under the new company name of Bravus.The businessman’s workers

Agrobusiness financial house Rabobank says confidence among Queensland farmers is at one of the highest levels it has been in two decades. The optimism comes amid strong commodity prices, low interest rates and a positive economic outlook. However, farmers say a bit of rain would do even more to boost their

Dutch logistics company Vanderlande, plan to make waiting at luggage carousels a thing of the past at a new airport in Badgerys Creek a suburb in Sydney. Vanderlande has won the right to operate the baggage services at the new airport and plan to use an app that will tell people when their bags are going to turn up.

A Medecins Sans Frontieres report says barely one in ten health facilities in Ethiopia’s Tigray region are functional as the region grapples with a worsening humanitarian crisis. Of the one hundred and six facilities MSF visited, it says one in five was occupied by armed soldiers, with one being used as an army base. Tigray has been in cri

Brazilian Vice Present Hamilton Mourao has told the Brazilian people that they are to blame for the country’s high COVID-19 case and deaths numbers. He said it is not in Brazlians’ nature to respect the rules and that the Brazilian people enjoyed partying and going out too much to wait for restrictions to ease. 

The top levels of Queensland’s public service are undergoing a reshuffle following the resignation of the Director-General of The Department of Premier and Cabinet Dave Stewart.

Mr Stewart is leaving his post of six years to become Queensland Agent-General in London.

Brisbane City Council is set to meet next Tuesday to receive a briefing on organising the 2032 Olympic Games and vote on submitting a formal bid.

The International Olympic Committee has already named Brisbane as its preferred partner for the games.