Hundreds of patients of a Cairns dental clinic are being urged to get tested after improper practices potentially exposed them to blood infections such as Hepatitis C and HIV. 

The Tropical Public Health Unit has issued a warning to get tested to approximately 550 patients of Essential Dental for Life in the Cairns suburb of Smithfield. 

Dr Richard Gair, Director of the Topical Public Health Unit, says the risk of infection was very low and efforts were being made to contact all patients affected. 

Labor has called for former Breitbart editor-in-chief Raheem Kassam’s visa to be cancelled ahead of an Australian-first conservative conference. 

Mr Kassam has said the Koran is "fundamentally evil" and tweeted Scottish National Party Leader Nicola Sturgeon's legs should be taped shut following a miscarriage "so she can't reproduce".

The UK has invited military representatives of the US, France and other European countries to a meeting in Bahrain today in an attempt to create an international mission to safeguard shipping through the strait of Hormuz in the Arabian Gulf. 

According to the Guardian, UK sources say the British proposal to create a European-led mission to prevent future ship seizures by Iran was still alive despite the dismissal of Jeremy Hunt as foreign secretary by new British PM Boris Johnson. 

India's parliament has approved a bill that makes the Muslim practice of "instant divorce" a criminal offence, which can have men jailed for up to three years.

"Triple talaq", as it's known, allows a husband to divorce his wife by repeating the word "talaq", or “divorce”, three times in any form, including email or text message, and was declared unconstitutional in 2017.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has celebrated the vote as "a victory of gender justice".

Brisbane City Council has rejected a proposal for a seven-storey development that would have partially demolished a heritage building and created floors of tiny single-room apartments in Nundah. 

The development at 1180 Sandgate Road would have demolished part of the 1920s-era Henry Thomas Chemist shop and included forty ‘smart’ studio apartments, with fold-out furniture built into the walls. 

Brisbane City Council will be subject to a raft of "non-compliance" measures for its bus network under a new contract between the council and TransLink.

The measures will force the council to answer to TransLink if it triggers a threshold for the number of buses missing routes, running behind or ahead of schedule, or if quarterly customer satisfaction falls below par.

Former Australian Federal Police Commissioner Mick Palmer has called for pill testing to be introduced at Australian music festivals, saying it is time for the nation to accept police-based prohibition has failed. 

Mr Palmer says young people are continuing to take drugs at music festivals despite anti-drug campaigns and sniffer dogs, and evidence from European countries have allowed pill testing for almost 20 years is impossible to ignore. 

NSW parliament won't debate a bill to decriminalise abortion until next week after it came under fire from conservative MPs and anti-abortion advocates. 

The private members' bill would allow for terminations up to 22 weeks and later if two doctors "consider that, in all the circumstances, the termination should be performed".

Double Olympic champion Caster Semenya will not defend her 800m title at the World Championships in September after the Swiss Federal Tribunal reversed a ruling that temporarily suspended the IAAF’s testosterone regulations. 

The South African runner had been expected to compete at the World Championships in Doha after the Swiss Supreme Court had temporarily exempted her from an IAAF rule relating to athletes with differences in sexual development, however that decision has now been overturned.