The Australian Privacy Commissioner is cautioning Facebook to learn from its mistakes and explain exactly how it will protect people's financial information when it launches its own cryptocurrency.

Facebook said its new cryptocurrency company, Libra, will allow money to be sent the same way as a text message.

Brisbane Airport flight paths will be changing and more flights coming and leaving with new $1.3 billion runways set to be finished by early next year.

Neil Hall from the Brisbane Airport Corporation says new flight paths will start in May next year, and wants people to be aware that the new runway will mean flights overhead in suburbs like Bulimba, New Farm and St Lucia.

The council are calling the Queensland Government to cancel a 15-year-old plans to clear six hectares of bushland at Stafford Heights where it wants to build an aged care centre.

However, on Tuesday night every Brisbane City councillor - LNP, Labor and Greens - unanimously voted no to granting this extension to the Queensland government.

The remnant bushland is diagonally across Rode Road from Brisbane City Council's Downfall Creek Bushland Centre and its network of walking trails.

Human rights groups are urging Australia to stop arms sales to countries involved in the Yemen war as the civilian death toll rises.

The world was appalled by the Sa’ada bus attack in August 2018 where a United States-supplied bomb killed 40 boys on a bus in Yemen; but since then more than 335 children have died in the fighting and almost 600 have been injured, according to new figures by the United Nations.

Pakistan has announced plans to expel India's top diplomat and suspend trade with its neighbour, deepening a row between the countries over the disputed territory of Kashmir.

Indian-administered Kashmir has been on lock-down since the Indian government decided on 5th of August 2019 to strip the region of its special constitutional status that let state of Kashmir to make it its own laws.

The Himalayan region of Kashmir is claimed in its entirety by both India and Pakistan, but they each control only parts of it.

The Australian dollar has hit a 10-year low against the US dollar, after New Zealand's central bank unexpectedly cut interest rates by half a per cent.

This is the lowest level for the Australian dollar against the US Dollar since March 2009, during the economic fallout from the global financial crisis.

CommSec's chief economist Craig James said the lower dollar would come as a relief for the Reserve Bank of Australia and other economic policymakers, even if it may be a headache for Australians travelling overseas.

South Australia wind-farms are undergoing legal proceedings launched by Australian Energy Regulator over a state-wide blackout in 2016.

The AER is claiming the companies failed to comply with performance requirements to ride through major disruptions and disturbances and breached the National Electricity Rules.

Federal Energy Minister Angus Taylor said the legal action could test whether electricity market rules are "being enforced".

James Cook University scientists have discovered a drug that increases survival after internal bleeding, by slowing biological time. 

The trauma drug increases survival to three days after major haemorrhage, compared to 20 hours for those who haven’t been treated with the drug.

The research is funded by the US military, and the drug is being developed for resuscitating severely wounded soldiers in remote locations.