Proposed construction plans for a four-line Sydney Metro network, with up to 39 new railway stations, have recently been unveiled to the public- depicting changes that would provide new cross city rail connections and new stops in Sydney's west.

This map has been released a week after the Victorian Government's issuing of $50 billion plans for a suburban loop line in Melbourne, where six new stations will be constructed.

By 2024, Sydney's single Metro line, which presently links Chatswood and Tallawong in the north, will be linked to Bankstown in the city's Southwest.

Major supermarket chain Woolworths has stated that over 350 kilograms of their unsold bread will be sent to Tribe Breweries to be converted into limited edition Loafer pale ale.

This course of action intends to promote sustainability, divert excess food from being delivered straight to landfill and to aid local food rescue partners to assist Australians being impacted by food insecurity.

Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters are using sticky notes to spread their message.

Throughout the city, these notes have become a lasting symbol of protesters' resistance and solidarity, and protesters have been opposed to what they call the dictatorship of the Chinese government during the past 14 weeks.

Protesters say this is the latest in a series of measures to erode individual freedom and to enforce China’s own state of dictatorship.

British Airways has started a two-day strike, almost all fights have been grounded and thousands of passengers were disrupted in a dispute over pay.

The airline is part of the International Aviation Group (IAG), which canceled 1,700 flights to and from London Heathrow and Gatwick airports on Monday and Tuesday before British Airways first ever pilot strike.

Australians who travel on Qantas codeshare flights across Europe are also mostly to be impacted by the industrial action.

A  Mermaid Waters resident is assisting in removing the rubbish from the Gold Coast beaches.

As she cleans, Jennifer Schultz sifts through the debris trying to find shells and fossils, but says "it shocks me sometimes the amount of trash I'm finding". 

The Griffith Centre for Coastal Development is also involved in cleaning up the beaches, running a BeachCare program for the community.

The Project Officer James Gullison says that volunteers last year collected 500 kilograms of rubbish.

A Rohingya family now living in Brisbane is one of many to be torn apart by the refugee crisis.

Robi Alam and his family were part of the UN Humanitarian Intake into Australia in 2010, but other family members were not so lucky.

While 19-year-old Mr Alam is a Queensland University of Technology student, soccer player and fast-food worker, his cousin of a similar age lives in the Nayapara Refugee Camp in Bangladesh with few opportunities.

James Cook University has been instructed to pay $1.2 million in compensation to a fired professor.

Marine physicist Peter Ridd, who made several dismissive comments about institutions such as the Australian Institute of Marine Science and colleagues, was fired in 2018.

The Federal Circuit Court Judge, Salvatore Vasta, found his termination to be unlawful, as JCU’s enterprise agreement protected his comments above the university’s code of conduct.

A Brisbane mother is the first woman to run for the Lord Mayor of Brisbane in the 2020 election.

Kath Angus has been preselected by the Greens and is a breastfeeding advocate, educator and parent, running against current LNP lord mayor Adrian Schrinner and Labor candidate Rod Harding.

Alongside her bid will be several other women preselected by the Greens, who hope that the diverse group will win seats from the LNP.

Queensland residents are chipping in and providing their tank water supplies to assist firefighters, despite above-ground water supplies being scarce due to a lack of rainfall.

The town of Stanthorpe suffered major water shortages due to drought and the fires that reached the area on Friday.

Dams in the Southern Downs region ran out of water prior to the outbreak of the bushfires- with many residents providing access to their own water sources as a means to aid the firefighting effort.