Amnesty International Australia is calling for a national moratorium on arresting children under the age of 14.

Last week the Federal Parliament passed a motion agreeing in principle to raise the age of criminal responsibility, with the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child also recommending Australia raises the age to 14. 

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children make up less than 6 percent of children aged 10-17 years, yet they account for 54 per cent of children in prison. 

The Government has expanded the coronavirus related travel-ban to South Korea. 

Under this travel-ban, foreigners travelling from China, Iran and South Korea will be banned from entering Australia. 

Enhanced screening measures will also be carried out on travellers returning from Italy. 

The Government will review these measures within the week of Saturday the 14th of March to determine if the travel restrictions need to be extended further.

In the days leading up to International Women’s Day, residents in Brisbane known as book ninjas are leaving books authored by Australian women on trains and buses.

This is part of the national Books on the Rail initiative, which began in Melbourne in 2016.

There are about 10,000 of these books that have been distributed by book ninjas in Australia, all of which bear a sticker reading “take me, read me, return me.”

The initiative is an effort to bring book lovers together and encourage more people to read.

More than 13,500 women and men are expected to take part in the RACQ International Women's Day Fun Run this Sunday.  

The event will start and finish in the Botanical Gardens and participants will pass through Kangaroo Point and other iconic Brisbane locations during the course.  

Over $379,000 were raised last year for life-saving research and practical breast-cancer support services. 

The event has reached maximum capacity and is expected to raise $750,000 this year. 

Elizabeth Warren has dropped out of the 2020 democratic presidential race, just one day after former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg also withdrew his candidacy.

Warren centred her campaign on fighting corruption in the American economy and influence of money in politics, tackling gun control, climate change and healthcare.

Unfortunately, her vast number of progressive policy proposals failed to attract a broader political coalition in the Democratic Party.

A student at a New South Wales boys’ school and a baby in South Australia are also among the latest in the confirmed cases of Coronavirus.

Epping Boys High School in Sydney will remain closed today after a 16-year-old, year 11 student tested positive to the virus.

NSW Health has advised students and staff to self-isolate over the next few days whilst the contact tracing process is conducted.

The diagnosis has brought the national number of confirmed cases to 55.

A military ceasefire was announced in the Syrian rebel stronghold of Idlib province after a summit between Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Russian President Vladimir Putin. 

The ceasefire is set to commence today at 12 AM Syrian time.

Idlib province has seen an increase in bloodshed since the beginning of a joint Russian and Syrian offensive into the region which saw Turkey mounting a counter-offensive to repel Syrian forces. 

Doctor William Skirving from the United States National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's Coral Reef Watch has projected a major coral bleaching event in the Great Barrier Reef as a result of a spike in ocean warming. 

It has been emphasized that this event will likely be larger and more intense than previous bleaching events which troubled the reef in 2016 and 2017, and will affect southern parts of the reef which have previously escaped dramatic bleaching events.

15 emergency staff from Brisbane’s Mater Private Hospital will be quarantined for two weeks due to potential exposure to coronavirus. 

An 81-year-old man and a 29-year-old woman were confirmed as the 12th and 13th cases of the virus in Queensland on Thursday afternoon. 

The man had recently returned from Thailand while the woman travelled from London to Brisbane with a stopover in Singapore. 

Queensland Health said they are working to locate those who came into contact with these two most recent cases.