New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern will meet Victoria's premier and governor when she visits Melbourne to deliver a speech.

Ms Arden will deliver her address titled 'Why does good government matter?' at Melbourne Town Hall on Thursday night.

It has also been reported she will meet with Australia's Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his wife.

A Sydney man and his wife allegedly;  had their Filipina nanny working for just for $2 for 106 hours  a week and only giving her 2 days off in an entire year.

The Fair Work Ombudsman is pursuing the couple for more than $155,000 in unpaid wages under Australia's workplace laws.

The nanny was allegedly hired in the Philippines and lived with the man and his wife and their two children in the Sydney CBD.

A thousand complaints were made about local councillors in the past financial year to Queensland’s new councillor conduct watchdog.

The Office of the Independent Assessor was established late last year by Local Government Minister Stirling Hinchliffe under new legislation to monitor and hold Queensland’s local councils to account.

Since its establishment, 917 complaints were made about councillor conduct, 240 of which were made in the last quarter.

The Clem 7 tunnel is currently under lock down,  as police negotiate with a man armed with a knife at the top of the tunnel. 

Police were called about 6.50am on Wednesday and officers have also closed Shafston Avenue northbound in Kangaroo Point because of the standoff.

Drivers who planned to use these routes have been asked to find alternative routes from authorities . 

It is costing Taxpayers almost $3 million a month in overtime for staff at Queensland's prisons.

The rising costs have been blamed on the state's rising prisoner population as the union argues not enough staff are available to cover rosters.

Over the 11 months until the end of May, the total Queensland Corrective Services staff overtime bill hit $30.16 million.

More light was shed on Queensland Nickel, a company owned by the billionaire, Clive Palmer, on 17th July 2019, during the second day of a trial in the Brisbane Supreme Court.

As Queensland Nickel headed towards collapse, Clive Palmer signed a $135 million deal to pay himself ahead of workers and suppliers.

Mr Palmer, is fighting a federal government lawsuit against him and his nephew Clive Mensink over the Townsville refinery's collapse in 2016, as Queensland Nickel liquidators try to get back about $200 million owed to creditors.

Refugee advocates are urging the government to restore access to income support  to asylum seekers who arrived by boat before 2014. 

Reversing the changes is one of the 31 recommendations made in a report via the Human Rights Commision this wednesday. 

The Commission said, 30,000 people who arrived by boat to Australia before 2014 are at risk of poverty and don’t have adequate support to allow them to provide for their basic needs. 

Mexican drug lord,Jaquin Guzman, otherwise known as El Chapo has been sentenced to life in prison.

US District Judge, Brian Cogan, ordered  Mr Guzman to forfeit $12.6 billion in a hearing in federal court in Brooklyn.

A jury in February convicted Mr Guzman of trafficking cocaine, heroin and marijuana and engaging in multiple murder conspiracies as a top leader of the Sinaloa Cartel.

Cambodia will send back 1,600 tonnes of plastic waste found in shipping containers to the US and Canada, as Southeast Asian countries revolt against an onslaught of rubbish shipments. 

China's decision to banned foreign plastic waste imports last year threw global recycling into chaos, leaving developed nations struggling to find countries to send their trash.