The push for higher density housing in Perth's suburbs has caused tension between the Government and Perth residents.

As the Nedlands council faced State Government pressure to increase the density of the area, the backlash was substantial.

Protest groups are voicing their desire to preserve the spacious appeal of their neighbourhoods. 

Townsville flood repair delays have left hundreds of people still homeless six months later.

Only about 1,400 of the 3,300 north Queensland homes damaged by floodwaters have been repaired, according to July figures from the Queensland Reconstruction Authority.

A Townsville resident, Maxine Ellis, says people feel they have been left "swinging in the wind" by insurers or stakeholders involved in the disaster recovery industry.

Volunteer snorkelers and scuba divers have been helping capture images of reef manta rays to better protect the threatened species.

UQ PhD candidate Asia Armstrong, who led the study, hopes the data will inform conservation planning and management along the coast.

Ms Armstrong says researchers and volunteers helped them build a catalogue of more than 1300 individual reef manta rays.

Italy has let 116 stranded migrants disembark from a coastguard ship after five EU countries agreed to sharing responsibility for them.

The men were forced to remain on the boat docked in Sicily for five days before far-right minister Matteo Salvini gave authorisation for them to disembark.

An EU Commission spokeswoman told AFP that France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg and Portugal would join the Italian Roman Catholic Church in caring for the migrants.

Donald Trump Junior has criticised the Australian Labour Party’s call for conservative activist Raheem Kassam to be blocked from visiting Australia.

The former Breitbart editor-in-chief is due to speak at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Sydney next week alongside Tony Abbott and Brexit campaign leader Nigel Farage.

Labor's Home Affairs spokeswoman Kristina Keneally said the government should revoke Mr Kassam's visa for his derogatory comments made about women and Islam.

Israel Folau has begun legal action against his former employee Rugby Australia and the NSW Waratahs for an unfair work dismissal. 

The former Rugby player is seeking $10 million in damages and wants his contract reinstated.

More than 20,000 people have donated about $2.2 million to help fund Folau's legal battle via a campaign page set up by the Australian Christian Lobby.

Major supermarkets Aldi, Woolworths and Coles have recently increased the price of their homebrand milk by 10 cents a litre, putting two litres of milk at $2.39; but dairy farmers say it’s still not enough.

David Janke, who milks 320 dairy cows each day just outside of Toowoomba, says they need to charge more as costs for farmers have doubled this drought. 

He says that this time last year they were getting hay delivered for $400 a tonne but this year the price has shot up to $750 a tonne.

Students in Queensland have been paid more than half a million dollars in compensation over the past four years for public school teachers causing them harm, including sexual assault and bullying.

Information about the payouts was obtained under the Right for Information Act, but the department are refusing to reveal if teachers involved were still working in Queensland public schools, or had even been disciplined at all. 

A man was arrested yesterday for breaching the peace, at the second round of protests at the University of Queensland, against the involvement of  the Chinese Communist Party in the university’s structure. 

The protester, known as Jayson explained to Brisbane Times reporter Toby Crockford that he gathered in the Great Court because he was afraid his right to speak freely could be under attack, following last week's violence.