Indigenous groups have protested for two days outside of the Alice Springs police station to demand an investigation into the shooting of 19-year-old Kumanjayi Walker at his family home on Saturday.

Aboriginal organisations in the Northern Territory are calling for an “immediate and exhaustive” investigation into the police shooting death of  Mr Walker, a Warlpiri man.

International firefighters have been flown in from New Zealand to assist with fighting bushfires in Queensland.

Interstate crews from Tasmania and the Northern Territory will also assist as the blazes worsen today and tomorrow, with more than 50 fires still burning across the state.

QFES Acting Commissioner Mike Wassing said, “We've got a couple of tough days and then we're into another week of weather that really doesn't see any rainfall, and potential further erratic conditions again into the weekend.”

Irukandji jellyfish are a dangerous part of Australia’s beaches, but scientists at James Cook and Griffith University are working to create better detection methods.

Professor Kylie Pitt said “Jellyfish leave behind DNA in the water as they swim through it and we can actually reliably detect whether or not jellyfish have been there by just taking a water sample and scanning it for the presence of Irukandji DNA.”

As part of the goal, the airline will invest $50 million over 10 years to build a sustainable aviation fuel industry that will limit its net emissions from 2020 and double the number of flights offsetting carbon emissions.

Alan Joyce, chief executive of Qantas Group, said the 2050 target was “ambitious but achievable”.

An American submarine that was missing in the Second World War was rediscovered at the bottom of the East China Sea.

In 1944, the aircraft carrier "Grayback" and its 80 crew members were missing when they were attacked by Japanese aircraft.

After searching for military documents with the correct coordinates, an underwater exploration project found the submarine near the Okinawa coast in Japan.

The original coordinates were incorrectly translated and the numbers were missing.

The small country of the West African Gambia has filed a lawsuit in the United Nations Supreme Court, formally accusing Myanmar of genocide against Rohingya Muslims.

It is initiated by the International Court of Justice, which usually decides on disputes between States.

Last year, the United Nations issued a condemnation report on the violence in Myanmar, saying that military leaders should be tried for genocide.

The Myanmar government denied that its troops had committed such crimes.

The creation of subterranean national park may save a Victorian wetland that experts say will take 300 years to rehabilitate.

Water authority Barwon Water had been pumping water out of aquifers in Otways wetland, causing drained waterways, toxic soil, fish kills, increased bushfire risk, and a total destruction of habitat for platypuses and other wildlife.

A Pink Picnic held at Victoria Point in October has raised $16,100 that has been donated to Chicks in Pink to raise awareness for breast cancer.

Attended by 200 people, the event was organised by Clancy Follett-McDonald of the art group Creative Express and held in conjunction with Victoria Point state school's P & C.

Ms Follett-McDonald said “To me, the best part of the day was seeing a community come together. People just came and pitched in. I was overwhelmed by the community spirit and support.”

Mountain Blue Orchards has won an intellectual property court case after one of their blueberry varieties was appropriated by another grower.

The company will be paid $290,000 in damages by Jason Chellew, who was growing and selling the protected berry variety, called Ridley 1111.

This case has been one of the first under the new Plant Breeder’s Rights Act, setting a precedent for the importance of breeder’s intellectual property rights.