One of Australia’s major early education providers has announced a flagship scholarship program to get more qualified teachers into the sector. 

G8 is partnering with major universities, including QUT, to offer $15,000 study bonuses and paid study time to its current diploma-qualified staff to complete a bachelor’s degree. 

G8’s Chief Executive Gary Caroll says that the company is aiming to double its number of qualified early childhood teachers. 

G8’s staff have welcomed the initiative.

Following the 2017 Bourke Street attack, Victoria Police have introduced a new 'hostile vehicle policy', which has given police the authority to take action to prevent serious death or injuries, if faced with a criminal in a hostile vehicle. 

Officers are now given explicit guidelines which include the tactical option to use roadblocks and ram offending vehicles.

The United Kingdom has adopted ambitious emissions reduction targets, making it the first major economy in the world aiming to end its contribution to global warming by 2050. 

The country is preparing to phase out its last coal-fired power plants by 2025 to reduce carbon emissions. 

The UK's National Grid, which supplies electricity to England, Scotland and Wales, says coal is "quickly becoming an irrelevance" in Britain.

Voting polls closed in Argentina late last week, in what has turned out to be a mostly peaceful election despite brewing frustrations and eroding support for the current conservative government.

Amid an economic crisis that has left one third of the population in poverty, the turnout for the election was heavy- with voting possibly bringing about a political shift to the left.

The Gold Coast has been identified as a climate change hotspot with a projected sea level rise of 80 centimetres by 2100. 

The City of Gold Coast's climate change strategy expired in 2014 and has not been revised since.

Data shows 64,000 Gold Coast properties will become 'uninsurable' within the next century due to rising risks of riverine flooding and coastal inundation.

Researchers of the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Brisbane have discovered potential causes behind the pitfalls in the major drugs used to aid in treating Parkinson's disease.

The issues behind the medications used to treat Parkinson's stemmed from the fact that they  increased dopamine levels in the brain causing patients to inherit the risk of developing compulsive disorders. 

Skilled migrants are now being encouraged to move to Perth and the Gold Coast as the Federal Government grapples with congestion in Australia's three biggest cities.

Almost 70 per cent of population growth is concentrated in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. 

Migrants who opt to move to regional areas will go to the top of the list for a regional visa. 

Immigration Minister David Coleman says in the first quarter of this year there was a 124 per cent increase in regional visas being granted.

The last people to ever climb Uluru on an expedition broadcast on National Indigenous Television last Friday morning, have faced backlash for 'ridiculous' and self-centred behaviour.

National Indigenous Television host John Paul Janke criticised the climbers for their delay in climbing down Uluru, stating that this potentially placed the group and the rangers' safety at risk. 

Police in Vietnam have taken hair and blood samples to get DNA from relatives of people feared to be among the 39 who died in the back of a truck near London last week. 

British police are still trying to establish the identity of victims who in many cases lacked identity documents.

Police in Britain said on Saturday they had charged one man, 25-year-old Maurice Robinson of Craigavon in Northern Ireland, with 39 counts of manslaughter and other offences including conspiracy to traffic people.