More than 300 people have been arrested following the take-down of one of the world's "largest dark web child pornography marketplaces". 

The website was run from South Korea and had nearly 8 terabytes of illegal content made up of thousands of hours of footage. 

The UK’s National Crime Agency said the website was one of the first to offer the videos for sale using the cryptocurrency bitcoin. 

The Cotton On Group and Target Australia have stopped buying cotton from China’s Xinjiang province over concerns of human rights abuses.

Both companies completed internal investigations in their supply chains following a Four Corners story that revealed Muslims were being rounded up and forced to work in textile factories in the region. 

Expert on China’s forced labour Adrian Zenz told Four Corners it would soon be impossible to determine whether products are made with labour from former detainees or not. 

A record number of women have received prime minister’s science awards, with mathematician Cheryl Praeger taking out the top prize for ‘outstanding contribution to mathematics’.

Ms Praeger, who expertise in group theory and combinatorial mathematics has underpinned advances in algebra research and computer cryptography.

Minister for Industry, Science and Technology, Karen Andrews said female representation in the honours had gone “from just one female recipient last year to five this year”.

Water from Paradise Dam is helping fill Childers and Woodgate water supply source, Gregory Weir, which was approaching a critical low.

Natural Resources Minister Dr Anthony Lynham reports that, “as of today, Gregory Weir is now at full supply level.”

“Sunwater and the Government are making every effort to ensure that the water that has to be released for safety is being used as productively as possible,” Dr Lynham said. 

Dr Lynham says it is great to be able to provide this for council, for Mayor Jack Dempsey, and the local communities.

Private and public schools will come together for the inaugural Greater Springfield Festival of Learning next week.

The festival will offer Greater Springfield students the chance to participate in events and workshops across the city’s schools, on topics as diverse as Lego, drones and technology, literacy, song and dance.

Coalition chairman and Springfield City Group EGM, Dr Richard Eden, said the event aims to highlight what can be achieved when schools collaborate.

Billion-dollar activewear brand Lululemon is the latest company to be implicated in the allegations of abuse of women workers in Bangladeshi factories. 

A report found that female workers are subjected to physical and verbal abuse, and were commonly humiliated with sexual slurs from managers. 

A pair of Lululemon leggings retails for about $120 in Australia — just a little less than the average worker in its Bangladeshi supply chain earns in a whole month.

Abu Dhabi has announced the establishment of the world’s first research-based, graduate-level artificial intelligence university.

Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artifical Intelligence (MBZUAI) is named after the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi, who has advocated for the United Arab Emirates development of human capital through scientific thinking.

Professor Sir Michael Brady, Interim President of the university says that this evolution is creating exciting new career opportunities in nearly every sector of society.

This Saturday will be the first protest in a three week campaign against horse racing.

Campaign Director of Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses Elio Celotto, says they will have a large presence outside all of the seasons biggest racing events, starting with this Saturdays Caulfield Cup and The Everest.

“Before, during and after racing they endure shocking cruelty, whilst the industry keeps peddling the rhetoric that these horses are treated like kings,” Mr Celotto said. 

After theAustralia government committed more than $1.5bn of taxpayer funds to planting trees in native habitats, it has wiped out carbon gains by bulldozing them in six months.

According to new data, in less than two years, land clearing will cancel out what the public is spending to avoid 125 million tonnes of carbon dioxide going into the atmosphere.

The Wilderness Society’s national nature campaigner, Jess Panegyres, says the action is absurd and is allowing Australia to become a global deforestation hotspot.