The Queensland Government is going to trial sending 3 year old’s to primary school in 2020. 

The pilot program is going to be called KindyLinQ and will be trialled across 40 schools. 

Specially designed sessions that will go for approximately 6 hours a week will help the very young children develop essential skills in language and communication, with Education Minister Grace Grace saying the aim is to have children better prepared for their early primary school years.

A group of tradies working on a suburban development site at Runaway Bay on the Gold Coast unearthed $200,000 worth of old-style cash notes, preserved in several plastic containers.

The Criminal Investigation Branch of the Queensland Police are currently undertaking forensic testing on the notes, which are presently understood to be $100 bills of an unknown currency.

Internet addiction is being described as the “drug of this generation” with Australian research finding that it can lead to mental health problems in teenagers that will continue into adult-hood. 

Compulsive gaming and social media usage is having a direct impact on sleep, leading to increased levels of violence and low self-esteem, leading many teenagers refusing to go to school and disengaging with society. 

A young family was kicked off a Jetstar flight after a little boy broke a dress code rule and the decision has left another passenger furious.

A mother and her two young children were booted off the flight because her toddler-aged son did not have shoes on.

Isobel Mebus, from the North Island of New Zealand, was left shocked and angry after witnessing the incident on Thursday afternoon.

Mebus said, “a woman passenger came up with a pair of shoes and put them on the boy and said, ‘There you go’ and they still wouldn’t let him on.”

Following South Africa’s Rugby World Cup victory on the weekend, captain Siya Kolisi says he hopes the win will "inspire every kid" back home.

Kolisi, who became the first black South African captain to lift the William Webb Ellis Trophy, says the victory will "pull the country together".  

The skipper said coach Rassie Erasmus told the players they were not just playing for themselves, but for all of South Africa with the country suffering an economic crisis with unemployment at 29%. 

Under Iran’s Islamic law, imposed after the 1979 revolution, women are forced to cover their hair in public by wearing a veil or headscarf. 

At least 39 women were arrested last year in connection with anti-hijab protests and more now currently face decades worth of jail time, according to Amnesty.

The University of the Sunshine Coast has implemented a 6000 solar panel powered water-battery to; provide cold water, cut up to 40 per cent of air conditioning costs and reduce emissions- a practice that is predicted to save $100 million within the next 25 years.

A system that was formed in partnership with French transnational company Veolia, it is now providing 2.1 megawatts of power across the entire university.