The Queensland parliament has passed new “lock-on” laws, supporting the bill with 86 votes to one.
 
These laws will criminalise dangerous locking devices used by climate protesters and give police expanded powers to search suspected activists.
 
The environmental group Frontline Action on Coal has condemned these laws.
 
Frontline Action on Coal spokesperson Andy Paine said “the Queensland community should be concerned about these laws”
 

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has ordered the removal of all "backward" and "shabby" facilities at the Mount Kumgang tourist resort, the current resting place of the 30-year-old floating hotel.

"The buildings are just a hotchpotch with no national character at all." he said.

Mr Kim called for the "unpleasant-looking facilities" to be removed and rebuilt to "meet [North Korea's] own sentiment and aesthetic taste".
 

A hire company says it was ‘shell shocked’ after 39 Chinese people were found dead in one of its trailers. 

The company said it provided police with information about the person who the company leased the trailer to. 

A 25 year old man from Northern Ireland was arrested on suspicion of murder and remiains in custody. 

The recycling crisis is prompting Victorians to switch to a six-bin system for rubbish collection.
 
China’s decision to stop importing foreign waste as forced Victoria to reconsider how it deals with recycling.
 
Elissa McNamara, the project director at infrastructure Victoria says "The system where everything's all put in the one bin has been around for 20 years, and we haven't updated that.

It’s the decision that has divided the nation. The ban to stop people from climbing Uluru.

While the vast majority of locals support the controversial move to stop visitors from scaling the rock, tourists have flocked to the region in a last-ditch effort to make it to the top of one of Australia’s most famous landmarks.

From Saturday, in recognition of the rock’s cultural significance to the Anangu people, the climb — which was built in 1964 on the steep western face of the rock — will be closed for good.

A motorcycle exploded into flames on Thursday morning at a busy Gold Coast intersection, causing road closures as fire crews worked to extinguish the blaze.
 
Firefighters and emergency crews were called to the busy intersection of Hope Island Road and Oxenford Southport Road, in Hope Island about 6.30am, after the motorcycle reportedly caught alight.
 
Reports have suggested the bike was completely destroyed by the blaze.
 

Water minister Anthony lynham has urged Queensland to not waste water. 

“Two thirds of our state is in drought, the south east has not been immune,” he said. 

Mandatory water restrictions will be introduced when combined dam levels drop to 50 per cent. 
 

Facebook’s former senior executive Stephen Scheeler says Mark Zuckerberg has too much control over the company and lacks accountability. 

The statement comes after Mr Zuckerberg was grilled by politicians in Washington on Wednesday for his failure to safeguard users privacy and its political interference.

Mr Scheeler says “[for] anybody who has the amount of non-accountability that Mark has, I think there’s a risk there… for their own decision making.”