Plans have already been announced to mark the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II. The 70th anniversary celebration of the Queen’s reign would culminate with a long weekend of commemorations from June 2 to 5 next year. Although, in this ever-changing COVID world, nothing is certain.

The nation’s biggest data gathering exercise, the Census, is just two months away. Australia’s Census is held every five years and forms a snapshot of how the country is changing. This year, it will include almost 25 million people and 10 million households. It will also see 20,000 field officers temporarily employed around the nation to conduct the exercise.

The only way to shut a conspiracy theorist up is to ‘out conspiracy’ them says a correspondent to the Sydney Morning Herald. The response to a conspiracy theorist who claims the moon landing was a hoax “is to say ‘oh, I see. You’re one of those people who believe the moon is real!”