The COVID-19 virus may have spread across the Queensland border into NSW after two cases travelled to Byron Bay and visited venues popular with holidaying Sydneysiders while unknowingly infectious. 

They visited Byron Bay Beach Hotel on Friday, March 26 between 7.15pm and 8.30pm, and The Farm, Byron Bay on Sunday, March 28 between 8am and 9.30am. 

Climate activist group Extinction Rebellion wrapped up a national week of protests on Sunday, disrupting peak hour traffic with daily protests in States and Territories across the country. 

The group held events throughout the week such as a morgue-style “die-in” and  a dramatic action where a 17-year-old hoisted himself onto a 30-feet high tripod blocking a major highway exit in Melbourne. The seven days of protest closed with a civil disco-bedience in Victoria, where protesters blocked traffic with a disco party. 

Former prime minister Paul Keating has reignited claims a rise in the superannuation guarantee is the only way Australians are going to be able to adequately afford retirement without overburdening the pension system.

The super guarantee is legislated to increase to 12 per cent by 2025 from 9.5 percent currently, but there is now a question as to whether the government will proceed with the rise.

A federal parliament IT disruption resulted in parliament staff being unable to access their email over the weekend. 

Assistant Defence Minister Andrew Hastie confirmed the Australian Signals Directorate is working with the Department of Parliamentary Services to investigate the issue. 

Another separate cybersecurity incident over the weekend interrupted Channel Nine’s live broadcast. Cyber security researcher Dr Suelette Dreyfus said the Channel Nine attack appeared to be a ransomware attack.

Suspected Islamist insurgents have attacked a convoy of fleeing civilians, including foreign workers, in Mozambique. Dozens of of people have been killed including seven who were ambushed trying to escape.

Hundreds are fleeing by car and boat as a result of the attacks, with reports that jihadists militants are to blame. 

Communications with Palma, the city hardest hit by the attacks, have been cut making it difficult for reports of continued attacks to be verified. 

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has declared greater Brisbane a hotspot from 5pm tonight, recommending that other States and Territories do the same, as Brisbane gets set to enter another 3-day lockdown starting this afternoon.

People in greater Brisbane will be required to stay at home for the duration of the lockdown, unless they need to leave their house for essential work, to buy food, to seek medical assistance or treatment, to look after a vulnerable person, or for exercise.

Content warning on this next story, which mentions death. 

Australia has joined in international condemnation against the Myanmar military, as countries such as the United States, South Korea, Japan and the United Kingdom criticise the Junta.

The junta has said its use of force has been justified to stop what it calls ‘rioting’, during which 114 unarmed people were killed in a brutal crackdown on pro-democracy protesters on Saturday.