Activists are continuing their protests today outside the International Mining and Resources Conference in Melbourne, where they are expected to continue ridiculing delegates as they approach the conference centre.

Yesterday saw 50 protesters arrested after rowdy scenes in which police horses were allegedly punched, while three police officers were taken to hospital and four were left injured. 

The climate change activists are already beginning to gather in Melbourne’s CBD this morning, and police officers are already out in force outside the centre. 

A Brisbane parent has slammed booking website Schoolies.com, after it was announced that it would be partnering with Tinder to promote the event.

Brisbane mother Libby Marshall fears that the partnership would put vulnerable teenagers at risk, after e-mails from Tinder promoting Schoolies were widely circulated.

Schoolies.com CEO Matt Lloyd said that the safety of school leavers was the company's top priority and that the platform would only be available to those over 18 years of age. 

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has hailed the end of large donations to political parties, after a series of wide-ranging electoral reforms were announced yesterday.

Under the new changes, public funding to political parties and candidates in Queensland elections will increase by $23 million, political parties will not be allowed to spend more than $92 000 in a single electorate, and  individual donations to political parties will be capped at $10 000 over a parliamentary term.

Police are appealing for public assistance to help locate two girls both reported missing from Zillmere.

The two girls, of 11 and 12 years, were last seen at a Victory Street address on Friday October 25. 

Both girls are slim, have brown eyes, brown hair and have been described as Aboriginal. 

Police hold concerns for the girls welfare due to their young age and urge anyone with information to contact police.

A man is fighting for his life after his car flipped in Brisbane’s north overnight, 

An arterial road has been closed for more than six hours after the incident occurred.

Police say the car was heading south along Gympie Arterial Road in Bald Hills, 17 kilometres north of Brisbane at about 10:10 pm on Monday night when the driver lost control.

Sunshine Coast indigenous elders called for an Uluru-style ban on climbing sacred Sunshine Coast mountains.

There are no official moves to prohibit the climbing yet, however traditional owners have requested their beliefs to be shown more respect.

Tweed Shire Council’s indigenous heritage officer Rob Appo said “we'd prefer people not to climb [the mountains], particularly to the summit because that's where a lot of those stories focus on.”

Anthony Albernese is defending his statement that there are jobs to be found in renewable energy production.

The Labour leader will declare in his first major policy speech: “The road to a low-carbon future can be paved with hundreds of thousands of clean energy jobs, as well as supporting traditional jobs, including coal mining”.

Mr Albernese said that there are plenty of opportunities for Australian manufacturing and mining in the world’s efforts to address climate change.

The short and detailed first-person game was demonstrated in a dilapidated high-rise industrial block that allowed players to avoid tear gas, hide behind burning obstacles and escape the riot police.

Lam, a 30-year-old developer, covered her face and asked not to be named because she participated in a frequent illegal protest. She said: "It allows you to experience the crisis that frontline protesters may encounter."

"It doesn't mean you have to go out after playing the game. We want people who fight for freedom to go out anyway."

On Monday, South Korean and Japanese governments are studying a joint economic plan involving companies from both countries to ease the pressure on North Korea’s forced labor during the Second World War.

Kyodo News quoted an unnamed source as saying, however, that the Japanese government will not provide any funds to the plan, which is consistent with its position on the idea of forced labor that was resolved in the 1965 treaty.