Japanese car company Nissan plans to cut 12,500 jobs worldwide, amid decreasing sales.

It will reduce its production capacity by 10% by the end of 2022 but has not mentioned where the cuts will take place. 

This statement comes after Nissan announced that it would cut 4,800 jobs in May. 

The US federal government is set to resume executing death-row inmates after a 16-year hiatus.

Attorney General William Barr said five inmates are scheduled for execution between December 2019 and January 2020. 

The announcement lifts what was an informal moratorium on the federal death penalty, the last execution took place in 2003.

The latest New South Wales Government pilot program of scholarships has introduced 18 new interpreters aimed at filling a gap in new and emerging migrant communities. 

There is a demand for more interpreters in communities that speak Assyrian, Kurdish-Kumanji, Tibetan, Chaldean, Kirundi, Tamil, Rohingya, Somali and Tigrinya.

NSW Minister for Multiculturalism John Sidoti says he hopes that this announcement will provide further funding for the project to alleviate the deficit. 

Advocates have delivered a report to Scott Morrison’s government asking to improve the quality of life for Australians living with dementia.

The advocates delivered the report to Aged Care Minister Richard Colbeck, the report offers a dementia-specific response to eight of the Morrison’s government aged care quality standards.

The organisation Dementia Australia asks commitment from Mr. Colbeck to add the findings to current standards before the royal commission presents their recommendations.

The Queensland Premier will wait for an official investigation to be launched into her deputy’s purchase of a house before deciding whether or not to sack her. 

Deputy Premier Jackie Trad’s purchase of a Woolloongabba home near the state governments Cross River Rail project, and failure to declare it on time, has been referred to the corruption watchdog. 

But Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says she will wait to hear if the Crime and Corruption Commission will investigate the purchase before making a call on Ms Trad’s future.

Clubs and pubs along Brisbane’s caxton St will no longer be forced to scan IDs.

The Queensland Government has accepted a swag of recommendations from a landmark two-year review of its crackdown on alcohol-fuelled violence, including softening of scanner rules.

The review also found that since the laws were first introduced assaults have by almost 29 percent a month between 3am and 6am.

Papua New Guinea Prime Minister James Marape says he wants his nation to move away from an “air-donor” relationship with Australia. 

Mr Marape does not envisage this type of air donor, recipient relationship to last, and hopes within the next 10 years his country grows into economic self-reliance and independence. 

Mr Marape’s comments comes days after Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced another $250 million in grants and low interest loans to help PNG connect 70 per cent of the country's electricity by 2030. 

The Governor of Puerto Rico, Ricardo Roselló, has resigned after days of protests following the scandal of leaked messages between the governor and top officials.

In Mr. Roselló’s statement he made clear his resignation would become effective on the 2nd of August and he is to be replaced by Justice Secretary, Wanda Vásquez.

In order to appease the protests, Roselló said that he won’t seek re-election next year. 

A two-year-old girl held in the Melbourne Immigration Transit Accommodation Centre had four teeth surgically removed and another four treated on Thursday after they began to rot during her time in detention. 

A photo of Tharnicaa’s black and decaying teeth circulated in May as her mother claimed she was unable to eat solid food due to the pain. 

Family advocates believe a lack of access to fresh food and sunlight within the centre and a subsequent vitamin D deficiency to be the cause of Tharnicaa’s dental issues.