Adelaide’s desalination plant has been revived as part of a deal to provide relief to drought-ravaged farmers.

Up to 100 billion litres of water will be provided for farmers which will be enough to produce 120,000 tonnes of feed for animals.

South Australia’s Premier Steven Marshall said, "South Australia survived some of the most extreme effects of the Millennium Drought and fully understand the terrible impacts that drought has on farmers, families, regional communities and the nation.”

Griffith Film School alumni have been nominated for Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards.

The award honours Australian screen excellence across feature film, television, documentary, short form and online.

Head of Griffith Film School Professor Herman Van Eyken said, “we are very proud of what our students, graduates and faculty members are producing, and are delighted to see their work recognised at this level.” 

$80 million has been spent on Brisbane Metro according to Brisbane City Council.

Figures released by the council say $80 million has been spent to date on the public transport project until September this year.

The total cost of funding will be $944 million, which the council says is fully funded with federal contributions.

Deputy mayor Krista Adams says, “this is a critical project and Infrastructure Australia lists it as the number one construction-ready project in Queensland.”

China says it will ban children from playing online video games at night and introduce laws to cut down screen time amid growing concerns about gaming addiction. 

Under the news measures, children under the age of 18 will be banned from playing online games between 10:00pm and 8:00am and restricted to 90 minutes of playing time on weekdays. 

A Government spokesman said these measures were implemented due to concerns about video game addiction in minors and the impact it had on their physical and mental health and learning.

Researchers in Mexico has discovered two 15,000-year-old pits containing the remains of more than a dozen mammoths, indicating that hunters in the late Pleistocene period were more highly organised than previously thought. 

It was previously assumed that mammoths were only hunted when they were an easy target, for example when they became stuck iRn a bog or swamp 

Archaeologists believe more hunting pits are likely to be found. 

The Federal Government is considering a royal commission into the mental health and wellbeing of ex- defence personnel service, including those who have taken their own lives. 

Prime Minister Scott Morrison met privately with the mothers of six army veterans who took their own lives after leaving the Australian Defence Force, earlier this week. 

Federal Government drought support measures will deliver $709 million in much needed economic aid for farm dependent communities as they brace for another hot summer, as announced yesterday. 

AgForce General President Georgie Somerset said that regional Queensland would welcome any and all assistance available from all levels of Government as the drought showed no signs of easing. 

A new cancer treatment is being trialled in the United States thanks to pioneering work being done by Queensland researchers, according to findings published in the journal Cancer Discovery yesterday. 

The head of QIMR’s Immunology Department, Professor Mark Smyth, said the method had very good results in mice. 

Professor Smyth said because their method focuses on the ‘upsteam’ part of the process, it could potentially work well alongside current immunotherapies that target ‘downstream’ once the adenosine as accumulated. 

Dashcam video has captured a car speeding up a highway on the wrong side of the road in Cairns, about 4:30pm Wednesday. 

A witness of the scene said at one point the car appeared to scrape the guard rail as it attempted to move as far to the left. 

Police are reviewing the video and charges have not yet been laid.