Hong Kong police fired live rounds at protestors, shooting a teenager at close range at a protest on China’s national day.

Police spokesperson, Yola and Yu, claimed that the teenager was shot after multiple warnings from police. 

There were at least 100, 000 people participating in the march, which was the largest one since the unrest in June.

The protestors threw petrol bombs, bricks, and objects at police, who used tear gas in response.

New world-first research has found that restoring Australia’s damaged wetlands and coastal vegetation would have the same effect on the fight against climate change as taking over four million cars off the road. 

Researchers from Perth’s Edith Cowan University have helped an international team of experts pinpoint the volume of greenhouse gas absorbed and released by Australian marine ecosystems, known has “blue carbon.”

Residents in the New South Wales Riverina are up in arms about tens of thousands of tonnes of recycling waste from Sydney and surrounding areas being dumped in landfill sites in their local region.

The waste, which has come via a Visy paper mill in Tumut, contains chemical contaminants which locals residents fear have the potential to contaminate the local water supplies. 

A dog that ran away into southern Queensland bushland after surviving a car crash that killed its owner has been found alive, two weeks after the incident, following a search initiated by the dead man’s family

Merlin the kelpie-cross had been travelling around Australia with his Victorian owner Simon Hannan, until he was killed by a car between Monto and Eidsvold on the Burnett Highway, west of Bundaberg, last month.

Queensland's corruption watchdog will proceed with "further inquires" into the Premier's former chief of staff David Barbagallo, over a State Government investment worth hundreds of thousands of dollars into a company he part-owned.

The Queensland Government has missed a deadline to release a green paper explaining how they plan to reach their carbon emission reduction targets.

Two senior Queensland scientists said the green paper would be released by July; however, Queensland’s Department of Environment and Science says the paper is still being prepared this week.

Queensland Conservation Council director Louise Matthiesson says “there is no clear road map of how the government is going to achieve its climate change targets beyond 2020”.

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Australia’s new $20 note will be unveiled at Vision Australia in Melbourne this morning, and will be the fourth note to include a tactile feature to help the vision impaired.

Vision Australia government relations manager Chris Edwards says the features will enable the 350,000 Australians who are blind or have low vision to easily identify the cash they are handling.

The $20 note has three raised bumps along its edges, while $5, $10 and $50 notes have other distinguishing features.

The Morrison government has to review all 123 councils eligible for drought relief, after using the wrong weather data to grant one million dollars to a Victorian shire experiencing one of its best seasons in years.

Waterlogged Moyne Shire will officially reject the funding today, and a review of the entire process will begin.

“If people are accusing us of helping us too much they can, that’s certainly much better than the alternative,” Scott Morrison said.

A local café owner from Victoria point is cycling around Queensland to raise money for a Christian charity.

Harvest Café owner Jo Hedges started her journey on her 53rd birthday, and plans to raise $53,000 by travelling 53,000 kilometres.

The charity she is supporting, called Eagles Wings, helps to provide a better education for children in Zambia.

Ms Hedges says “I do not class myself as an athlete, I class myself as a mum who is trying to do something for others”.