The UK will launch the world’s first mass inoculation of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccination this week, having ordered 40 million doses of the newly developed vaccine. 

Health officials will begin administering the drug in hospitals, before distributing stock to doctor’s clinics. 

Brexit negotiations are ongoing between the UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson and the European Commission president Ursula Von Der Leyen but haven’t come to a successful conclusion yet, despite the fact they have been negotiating the whole of last week.

More than 60,000 koalas were impacted by the devastating bushfires that swept across the country last summer, with total numbers of wildlife affected estimated to be 3 billion.

A new report by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) revealed that 143 million mammals were killed or lost their habitat last summer.

In 26 May 2020, Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced his plan to reform the industrial relations system in response to the pandemic, but the Australian Council of Trade Unions seems to believe the government would have no intention of addressing the issue of insecure work.

As part of its 5Oth anniversary celebrations, James Cook University has given its Cairns’ campuses local Indigenous names to acknowledge the role of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples in the advancement of the University.

Extinction Rebellion protesters staged a protest in Brisbane CBD this morning, sitting on top of a stationary rental truck parked at the intersection of Edward and Queen Street.  

Fire and Rescue extracted the protestors from the top of the truck by using a cherry picker. 

Facing global anger over their mishandling of the outbreak, the Chinese authorities have been trying to shift the blame by pushing theories that the virus originated outside China.

US President Donald Trump has announced on Twitter that his lawyer and former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani has tested positive for coronavirus.

Mr Trump wished Mr Giuliani a quick recovery, and claimed he has been “working tirelessly exposing the most corrupt election (by far!) in the history of the USA.”

NSW Police have admitted that they incorrectly let two German travellers transit to Melbourne without undergoing Hotel Quarantine in Sydney. 

Police state there was a ‘language barrier’, between the two travelers and Airport security, who thought they were exempt from Hotel quarantine and escorted them to board their Melbourne flight.