A new survey conducted by Unisys reveals that 41% of Australians have received online ads about a topic they had recently talked about.

More than 1 in 4 participants also said the virtual assistant on their smart device had asked them for more information, or to repeat themselves, even when they hadn't turned it on.

Ashwin Pal from Unisys says Australians are becoming increasingly concerned about their privacy and how their data is being used.

A Brisbane councillor has been thrown out of the Brisbane City Council chamber for swearing during a meeting yesterday.

Cr Nicole Johnson was censured by Council Chair Andrew Wines for using an expletive, after herself trying to make a point of order against Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner for inappropriate language.

Medical journal, The Lancet has published a paper showing that the risk of breast cancer rises after only one year taking menopausal hormone therapy.

The paper collects data from 58 international studies from 1992 to 2018. Althought they are observational, no other reason for this correlation has yet been found.

A man has locked himself to a drill rig this morning, disrupting work on Adani’s controversial Carmichael mine in the Galilee Basin.

63 year old teacher and farmer Will Douglas, from Moruya in NSW, locked himself to the drill rig on Adani’s rail corridor, saying that immediate action is needed in the face of climate emergency.

New Hope Coal mine, situated in southern Queensland, has sacked 150 workers after its expansions weren’t approved.

The mine has been waiting for approval for New Acland Stage 3 near Toowoomba for 12 years, and mine general manager Dave O’Dwyer says that they have run out of coal. 

Mr O’Dwyer says that “you can see the fear in [the workforce’s] eyes when you look around the room,” stemming from uncertainties around the decision.

A private Catholic school in Nashville has removed Harry Potter books from its library, saying it contains "actual curses and spells, and when humans read these spells and spells, they will come up with a strange spirit.”

A local newspaper in Tennessee reported the pastor of the St. Edward's Catholic School educated kindergarten children in the eighth grade, and they emailed their parents about the JK Rowling series, telling them he had been in contact with "several" exorcists who recommended removing the books from the library.

More than $26,500 has been back-paid to 166 staff members at Muffin Break and Jamaica Blue cafes across the country.

The cafe’s franchisor, Foodco, had to back-pay employees under an agreement with the Fair Work Ombudsman.

An independent audit found 152 employees were underpaid, while an additional 12 requests from employees at the cafes led to another 14 employees being back-paid.

The South Australian opposition has called a tourism ad “bizarre”, while others have called it “ageist” and “depressing”.

The advertisement, by the South Australian Tourism Commission, is titled ‘Don’t feel sorry for old mate’ and features an older man crying as he walks through well-known South Australian locations.

Viewers have taken to social media to share their (mostly negative) thoughts on the advertisement and the fact that a Victorian Company was commissioned to make it.

A woman has found 43 dead birds washed up on the Caloundra Beach, believed to have been killed in Bribie Island bushfires.

Leisl Born found a variety of species of burned birds among debris on the beach as she walked her dog last week. 

A scheduled burn of bushland on Bribie Island jumped containment lines and had to be contained by the Queensland Fire and Emergency Services and the Queensland Parks and Wildlife Service, causing the evacuation of campers.