Italy has let 116 stranded migrants disembark from a coastguard ship after five EU countries agreed to sharing responsibility for them.

The men were forced to remain on the boat docked in Sicily for five days before far-right minister Matteo Salvini gave authorisation for them to disembark.

An EU Commission spokeswoman told AFP that France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg and Portugal would join the Italian Roman Catholic Church in caring for the migrants.

Donald Trump Junior has criticised the Australian Labour Party’s call for conservative activist Raheem Kassam to be blocked from visiting Australia.

The former Breitbart editor-in-chief is due to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Sydney next week alongside Tony Abbott and Brexit campaign leader Nigel Farage.

Labor's Home Affairs spokeswoman Kristina Keneally said the government should revoke Mr Kassam's visa for his derogatory comments made about women and Islam.

Israel Folau has begun legal action against his former employee Rugby Australia and the NSW Waratahs for an unfair work dismissal. 

The former Rugby player is seeking $10 million in damages and wants his contract reinstated.

More than 20,000 people have donated about $2.2 million to help fund Folau's legal battle via a campaign page set up by the Australian Christian Lobby.

Major supermarkets Aldi, Woolworths and Coles have recently increased the price of their homebrand milk by 10 cents a litre, putting two litres of milk at $2.39; but dairy farmers say it’s still not enough.

David Janke, who milks 320 dairy cows each day just outside of Toowoomba, says they need to charge more as costs for farmers have doubled this drought. 

He says that this time last year they were getting hay delivered for $400 a tonne but this year the price has shot up to $750 a tonne.

Students in Queensland have been paid more than half a million dollars in compensation over the past four years for public school teachers causing them harm, including sexual assault and bullying.

Information about the payouts was obtained under the Right for Information Act, but the department are refusing to reveal if teachers involved were still working in Queensland public schools, or had even been disciplined at all. 

A man was arrested yesterday for breaching the peace, at the second round of protests at the University of Queensland, against the involvement of  the Chinese Communist Party in the university’s structure. 

The protester, known as Jayson explained to Brisbane Times reporter Toby Crockford that he gathered in the Great Court because he was afraid his right to speak freely could be under attack, following last week's violence. 

An Ebola epidemic has widened, with health experts fearing outbreaks in dense major cities may make it harder to isolate patients.

With over 1800 deaths, this is the second worst outbreak of Ebola on record.

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s crisis spokesman Jean-Jacques Muyembe told the AFP a second person has died of Ebola in Goma, a dense city that has transport links to many parts of East Africa.

Osama Bin Laden’s son, Hamza Bin Laden, who was viewed as the heir to the leadership of Al Qeada has been pronounced dead via a drone strike, US officials say.

The details of the strike have been scarce about the location and when the strike began but the Trump administration did play a part.

He was killed just as the US government was about to give a 1 million dollar reward for information about the location of Mr Bin Laden. 

Disability advocates are calling on the government to review the NDIS after new data shows thousands of workers on the NDIS are being underpaid.

Just 30 per cent of working people on NDIS are being paid the industry minimum; increasing to 40 per cent for 15 to 24 year olds.

Matthew Bowden, from People with Disability Australia said it’s extremely concerning that people with disabilities continue to be forced into situations of poverty because they aren’t being paid fair wages.