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. 

An Ebola epidemic has widened, with health experts fearing outbreaks in dense major cities may make it harder to isolate patients.

With over 1800 deaths, this is the second worst outbreak of Ebola on record.

The Democratic Republic of Congo’s crisis spokesman Jean-Jacques Muyembe told the AFP a second person has died of Ebola in Goma, a dense city that has transport links to many parts of East Africa.

Osama Bin Laden’s son, Hamza Bin Laden, who was viewed as the heir to the leadership of Al Qeada has been pronounced dead via a drone strike, US officials say.

The details of the strike have been scarce about the location and when the strike began but the Trump administration did play a part.

He was killed just as the US government was about to give a 1 million dollar reward for information about the location of Mr Bin Laden. 

Disability advocates are calling on the government to review the NDIS after new data shows thousands of workers on the NDIS are being underpaid.

Just 30 per cent of working people on NDIS are being paid the industry minimum; increasing to 40 per cent for 15 to 24 year olds.

Matthew Bowden, from People with Disability Australia said it’s extremely concerning that people with disabilities continue to be forced into situations of poverty because they aren’t being paid fair wages.

Church leaders and anti-abortion MPs have united to delay the introduction of a bill to decriminalise abortion in New South Wales.

It is currently the last state not to already have done so.

If passed, the bill would also create a new criminal offence under the Crimes Act for anyone who assists in terminations without authorisation.

Work on Brisbane's newest pedestrian link across the Brisbane River, the Neville Bonner Bridge will begin in 2020.

An 80 meter barge moved  into the Brisbane River this Wednesday to begin survey work for the 100 million dollar construction project.

The bridge will be finished in 2022. 

Councillor for the Gabba, Jonathan Sri has been the target of violent and racist messages over social media on his attempt to have council declare a climate emergency.

Brisbane’s only Greens councillor was targeted in what he called inflammatory and sensationalist attack pieces by the Courier Mail for his support of activist group Extinction Rebellion.

Councillor Sri said while the attacks were hurtful and emotionally exhausting, the amount of support he had received had been significantly higher.