The Victoria Government has banned commercial fishing in an effort to increase the number of recreational fishers.

Commercial fishing licence holders, in the Gippsland Lakes region in  eastern Victoria, will be stripped of their right to fish from 2021 after legislation passed Victorian Parliament.

A compensation package of 27 million will be shared among all Gippsland Lakes commercial fishing license holders, who are unsatisfied due to their long fishing years.

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has again ruled out the prospect of pill testing at music festivals, despite a leaked draft coroner’s report which recommended the move.

The Premier said that pill testing often gives out a “false sense of security”

Festival-goers are encouraged to comply with the sufficient safety and security regulations from the government when they find themselves at ‘high-risk’ festivals.

Chemical experts have warned the Sunshine Coast Council that a proposed plan to dump millions of litres of PFAS-tainted water into the sea off the Sunshine Coast is "insanity".

The Council’s proposed plan involves building a pipeline to funnel the contaminated water froSum the Sunshine Coast airport construction site into the ocean at Marcoola.

Two people have been killed in a car crash involving a stolen vehicle on the Bruce Highway in Brisbane’s north.

The stolen vehicle was travelling on the wrong side of the Bruce Highway at Bald Hills when it crashed head-on into an oncoming car around midnight while attempting to flee from police.

Queensland Ambulance Services said a person from each car involved in the crash were found dead at the scene, and two others, including the driver of the stolen vehicle were taken to hospital in a critical condition.

Police in northern Nigeria have released hundreds of captives who were beaten, abused and held in squalid conditions at an Islamic boarding school in Katsina.

Nearly 300 men and boys from 7 to 40 years of age had been at the facility where police said they discovered “inhuman and degrading treatments” following a raid to free the remaining students.

67 of the inmates who were freed by the police were shackled in chains, and many were taken to hospital for treatment, police are now working to reunite the captives with their families. 

A Dutch family have been discovered by police after being locked away in a remote, boarded-up farmhouse in a secret room for nine years, where they were reportedly “waiting for the end of time.”

The five siblings, ages 18-25, were found with a 58-year-old man who was initially believed by police to be their father, however the man has since been arrested after this was found not to be the case.

Academics from across the globe have condemned Murdoch University’s treatment of a whistleblower who spoke out about international student exploitation.

The Western Australian university is suing associate professor Gerd Schröder-Turk for criticising its treatment of international students during an episode of the ABC’s Four Corners where he said that the university was admitting students who did not meet its own academic standards.

New federal regulations which promised to tighten the rules on the use of chemical restraints in aged care actually normalise the practice, a report has said.

The practice of using medication to modify the behaviour of dementia patients has come under scrutiny in recent years, prompting Federal Government to announce the regulation change in July.