Today is World Mental Health Day which aims to highlight global mental health education, awareness and advocacy. 

The initiative by the World Federation for Mental Health encourages people to see beyond the stigma that surrounds mental health issues and make mental health more visible.

Mental Health Australia CEO Frank Quinlan says the organisation wants people to make a mental health promise online, to battle stigma. 

"To date more than 20,000 people have made a mental health promise to help reduce stigma and create awareness," Mr Quinlan said.

Prime Minster, Scott Morrison has been criticised for his comments that transgender teenagers are dealing with ‘the pressures of identity politics’. 

Mr Morrison’s statements have been described as “totally inaccurate, dismissive and patronizing” by Transgender Victoria’s Sally Goldner.

They also typify his patronising attitude to young people generally and his attitudes to trans and gender diverse people of all ages,” Ms Goldner said

A wave of planned fossil fuel development across northern Australia would push the Paris climate agreement goals further beyond reach, according to a new investigation. 

The proposal of the developments by a number of major companies indicates a significant increase in the amount of coal and gas Australia sells to Asia. 

According to the Climate Analytics Institute, if the proposals go ahead, Australia will be linked to about 13% of the greenhouse gases that will be emitted in 2030.

Ten Extinction Rebellion activists have locked themselves to a pink catamaran in Brisbane’s CBD on day four of rolling protests. 

About 20 police were working to remove the vessel which blocked George Street and slowed traffic to one lane on Elizabeth Street. 

Extinction Rebellion sung ‘power to the people’ as they demand 100 per cent renewable energy and giving nature legal rights.

The group has vowed to hold protests every day in the city this week. 

Queensland Fire and Emergency services will pause for a moment of silence today to honour fallen colleagues.

Craig Crawford, Fire and Emergency Services Minister, said Firefighters Remembrance Day, is an opportunity to honour the 53 firefighters who have paid the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty since 1877. 

“As we’ve seen recently with severe fires around the state, it’s evident our firefighters put life and limb on the line to help protect local communities,” Mr Crawford said.

Facebook has removed a total of 443 pages and 125 Instagram accounts from Indonesia, Nigeria, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt for engaging in ‘coordinated inauthentic behaviour’. 

Facebook’s head of cybersecurity policy Nathaniel Gleicher says there were ‘networks of accounts’ created to ‘mislead others about who they are and what they were doing’. 

Facebook's global lead for threat disruption David Agranovich says the pages were difficult to distinguish as fake. 

Turkey says it is ready to advance into northeast Syria following US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from the Turkey-Syria frontier. 

A build-up of troops and tanks near the border is continuing and a security official claims one of the main goals is to cut off a transit route between Iraq and Syria often used by Kurdish armed groups before the operation in Syria. 

US President Donald Trump has denied that his decision to withdraw troops is a betrayal of US allies the Kurds. 

An inquiry by the Independent Commission Against Corruption has revealed that a Chinese billionaire gave a wine box containing $35 000 in cash to New South Wales Labor boss Jamie Clements to help him cover legal bills to fight allegations of sexual harassment. 

Mr Clements faced allegations that he tried to kiss a 27-year-old Labor staffer in parliament house office in 2015. 

Mr Clements said he was not surprised at being given the money. 

Melbourne Cup-winning horse trainer Darren Weir and two other men have been charged with animal cruelty offences following raids on Weir’s stables in Ballarat and Warrnambool in January. 

Mr Weird was charged with nine offences including three counts of ‘engaging in the torturing, abusing, overworking and terrifying’ of a racehorse and three counts of ‘causing unreasonable pain or suffering to a racehorse’. 

In February Racing Victoria suspended Weir for four years after police allegedly found electrical devices used to shock horses, known as "jiggers", in the raids.