A Polish court has ordered conservative newspaper Gazeta Polska to halt the distribution of LGBT-free zone stickers it included in this week’s issue. 

The liberal Gazeta Wyborcza reported a lawyer who brought the legal action on behalf of a Polish LGBT activist said the ruling meant the stickers should immediately disappear from all places of sale. 

But editor-in-chief of Gazeta Polska, Tomasz Sakiewicz, insisted the magazine had not been withdrawn from the shops.

Latest government data points out how deforestation of the Brazilian Amazon has surged above three football fields a minute taking the forest closer to a point of no recover.

The rise, following increases during May and June, confirms that president Jair Bolsonaro has approved logging and burning.

July is on its way to be the first month, for many years, in which Brazil loses an area of forest bigger than London.

New South Wales Liberal Parliamentarian, Andrew Bragg, has proposed that superannuation should not be compulsory for low-income earners. 

Senator Bragg suggested offering an option for Australians to get a refund of super funds when filling out their tax-return.  

Bragg says this change will also benefit the Federal Government as, if Australians were able to keep the cash, they would be taxed at a higher rate as opposed to the lower tax rate of superannuation.

A complaint was lodged about a judge who told an Indigenous mother she was likely to have been drunk on pension day and, as quoted, abandoned her kids in, “that great Indigenous fashion”.

The judge, Greg Borchers, has made inappropriate comments in the past, and was removed from the Alice Springs Youth Court in 2017 as a result. 

The Northern Territory Criminal Lawyers Association met on Wednesday night to revise Bochers’ conduct and lodged a formal complaint to the chief judge. 

Brisbane’s Feminist Festival will take place this Saturday at Riverside Receptions in New Farm. 

The festival will feature guest speakers, workshops, performances, panels, food trucks, art, entertainment and more. 

State facilitator, Hannah Kelly says she wants to teach feminism in a broad, intersectional sense, rather than as a ‘niche’ which it is often labelled as. 

A Sunshine Coast woman was involved in a 6 million dollar scam after a man she met on a dating site convinced her to open a bank account he later used to store stolen cash.

The scammer hacked a Sydney company’s email to take over a 6 million transaction between the company and a Korean business.

Detective Senior Sergeant Daren Edwards is encouraging people on dating sites to be aware of red flags and be realistic when using these sites.

The threat of deportation is rising for Syrian refugees in Lebanon, as security forces are increasingly carrying out raids of businesses and refugee camps. 

Lebanon is home to 1.5 million Syrian refugees - it has more refugees per capita than any other country in the world, and most are undocumented. 

Local media in Lebanon reports that at least 301 Syrians were deported in May, and there is growing concern that refugees are at risk of unfair treatment or deportation.

Up to 150 people are feared to have drowned after two migrant boats capsized in an attempt to cross from Libya to Europe on Thursday.

According to the coastguard, another 137 passengers were rescued and brought back to Libya. 

UN High Commissioner for refugees spokesman, Charlie Yaxley, says the tragedy opens up again the necessity of taking urgent action and offering safe and legal alternatives that prevent people from taking boats.

Independent candidate Oliver Yates will challenge the Liberal Party’s Chinese language signs, which were designed to resemble Australian Electoral Commission posters during the federal election.

The Liberal Party signs used the same colours as the AEC material and said the correct voting method was to place a number 1 beside the liberal candidate. 

Yates, who was unsuccessful in his attempt to claim Kooyong against treasurer Josh Frydenberg, says the signs infringe the Electoral Act.