Qantas will offer a range of incentives to people who are vaccinated, encouraging more people to get a COVID jab. Qantas, which has had its business largely grounded during the COVID-19 pandemic, is hoping free flights, points, and credits will encourage Australians to get vaccinated. The airline’s vaccine incentive program, which launches July 2021, will…
United States President Joe Biden has ordered national intelligence agencies to intensify its efforts to determine the origins of coronavirus, saying they are pursuing theories of a possible laboratory accident in China. Biden said in a statement that the US intelligence are looking into two different scenarios and have low confidence in their current conclusions.…
Victoria will become the first state in Australia to tax electric vehicle drivers after the controversial legislation passed through parliament. Earlier this week, Victoria’s Legislative Assembly debated the merits of the ‘Zero and Low Emission Vehicle Distance-based Charge Bill 2021’, more commonly known as the EV tax. The Andrews government’s electric vehicle tax passed without…
The Victorian government has announced a new seven-day lockdown today in a bid to reduce the state’s growing coronavirus outbreak. The “circuit-breaker” lockdown will be in place from midnight Thursday until midnight on June 3. The lockdown marks the fourth lockdown the Victoria Government has implemented since the pandemic began. The state’s recent outbreak has…
Update: Victoria has recorded another six local COVID-19 cases, bringing the cluster in Melbourne’s north to 15. Acting Premier James Merlino said health authorities reported 10 new local cases in the past 24 hours to midnight and revealed they had been notified of one new case this morning which will be included in tomorrow’s numbers.…
Elon Musk’s recent tweet about “promising” developments on clean energy crypto mining ignited a surge in Bitcoin overnight. According to CoinMarketCap, by 8:00am AEST, Bitcoin’s price had jumped 15 per cent in a 24-hour period – pushing US $39,100. After a week of chaos where billions of dollars were wiped off the value of the…
Saturday marked the triumphant return of the 65th Eurovision Song Contest after being postponed last year due to COVID-19. This year the contest was held in the Netherlands’ Rotterdam Ahoy arena in front of a live audience of 3,500 fans. The 2021 winner was Italy’s leather-dressed rock band, Måneskin, with their single ‘Zitti E Buoni’.…
Australia’s Olympic skateboarding preparations are in shambles after three members tested positive to COVID-19 after traveling to the United States for a qualifying event. Two athletes, including a 13-year-old skater, are now out of the running for the Tokyo Olympics due to testing positive at the qualifying event, along with their coach. The group of…
Israel and Hamas have agreed to a ceasefire putting an end to the 11-day military operation in the Gaza Strip. The decision came after heavy pressure from the United Nations and United States to halt the offensive. Israeli media reported Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s security cabinet confirmed the decision to approve a “mutual and unconditional”…
A selling frenzy of cryptocurrencies this week, caused by Chinese financial leaders and Elon Musk, has seen Bitcoin and many other coins plunge in the market. It has been a wild 24 hours in the crypto world. China’s recent crackdown on cryptocurrencies along with cryptic tweets from Musk triggered a selling frenzy which has seen…