Conservation groups have slammed the Federal Government’s Snowy Hydro 2.0 Project, following the release of its Environmental Impact Statement.

The National Parks Association and the Colong Foundation are concerned about the impact of the project upon threatened species, after it was revealed that over 1,500 hectares of protected land would be affected.

Executive officer of the National Parks Association Gary Dunnett said that the project was "the largest” and “most destructive” development in a national park.

A former English teacher is suing offshore detention operator Broadspectrum for devastating ill health caused by black mould in her accommodation, while she was teaching asylum seekers and refugees on Nauru.

The case is the latest claim of dangerous exposure to mould at the Australian immigration detention centre on Nauru.

Comcare has confirmed it received a complaint from a former employee in 2016, and a number of other former staff have also alleged their health was affected.

Drivers in Queensland who have driven off without paying petrol fees will now receive a text message or email to remind them to go back to the station and pay, in a new trial by police.

Acting Superintendent says the new scheme is designed to encourage people involved in a fuel-drive off, either inadvertently or on purpose.

There were 278 000 fuel drive-offs reported in Queensland this year.

Individual donations to the Queensland Children's Hospital have dropped by hundreds of thousands of dollars, following a name change last November.

Health Minister Steven Miles said that the drop in donations was unrelated to the name change, citing two unusually large bequests received in financial year 2017-18 totalling $4.69 million.

The collapse of Nanfangao Bridge, a popular tourist bridge in Yilan, Taiwan has crushed several fishing boats.

The accident took place when an oil tanker was under the bridge, triggering a fire.

10  people were sent to the hospital and six were seriously injured.6 people were trapped on one of the boats, and five were probably on the bridge when the bridge collapsed.

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.