Australia has been given another chance to transfer refugees from Manus Island in a renewed offer from New Zealand to resettle 150 people.

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says her government remains willing to accept the refugees on humanitarian grounds, confirming the number of places during her visit to Australia last Friday.

Tourism Western Australia has dropped celebrity chef George Calombaris from its new advertising campaign after he was fined for underpaying staff almost $8 million.

The Fair Work Ombudsman last week fined the Masterchef judge and his Made Establishment company $200,000 and ordered he back-pay hundreds of current and former staff.

Tourism WA managing director, Brodie Carr, says the ads featuring Mr Calombaris have been suspended, although the campaign “Create Your Own Gourmet Escape in WA” with Masterchef will continue.

Leaked documents have revealed that Chinese tech giant Hauwei helped the North Korean government build and maintain the country’s commercial wireless network.

The internal documents were obtained by the Washington post from a former Huawei employee who considered the information to be in the public’s interest.

Russian campaigners have said Yelena Grigoryeva, a woman found murdered with multiple stab wounds had received threats over her LGBT rights activism.

Authorities found the body of the 41-year-old victim in Saint Petersburg on Sunday.

Acquaintances said Yelena’s name was on a list of LGBT activists published by a recently blocked Russian website that called on people to take vigilante action against them. 

Three anti- Adani protestors have been arrested in Brisbane after conducting a peaceful protest outside Meales concrete pumping in Windsor.

Sitting on the road outside the industrial site on Monday, protestors blocked concrete trucks from leaving or entering the establishment and demanded the company refuse to work with Adani in the future.

LNP leader Deb Frecklington criticised the protests, tweeting ‘a number of business people who have nothing to do with the resources industry couldn’t access their properties. Enough is enough’.

Residents of Mount Coot-tha are calling for the local quarry to be disestablished because of concerns over public health and inaccurate monitoring.

Their ambition comes from community success in getting rid of plans for the proposed Mount Coot-tha zipline as well as quarry blasts cracking concrete in their houses. 

Greens MP Micheal Berkman has called for Environment minister, Leeanne Enoch to investigate the residents’ worries.

Australian citizen and pro-democracy activist Van Khan Chau has been detained in Vietnam for six months without a lawyer.

Mr.Chau was arrested in Ho Chi Minh city in January for allegedly trying to ‘overthrow the state’ while meeting a member of the outlawed Brotherhood for Democracy group.

Vietnamese authorities have extended the investigation period until September.

Liberal Senator Dean Smith has joined a growing group of Coalition figures calling for Australia’s unemployment benefit to be raised for the first time in 25 years.

Labor pledged to review the level of NewStart Allowance - which has not risen in real terms in 25 years - if it won office, however the Morrison government has remained steadfast in its opposition to an increase as the payment is meant to be ‘transitional’. 

In one of the largest operations of its kind in years, Isreali work crews began demolishing Palestinian homes on Monday on the outskirts of an east Jerusalem neighbourhood.

The demolitions capped a years-long legal battle over the buildings that were constructed on an invisible line straddling the city and the occupied West Bank.

The United Nations stated that Isreal’s policy of destroying Palestinian property is incompatible with its obligations under international humanitarian law.