A sunshine  Coast Chef Amber kaba  has started The White jacket Effect to empower hospitality workers with mental health tools to help themselves and their workmates.

Ms Kaba said she struggled with alcoholism herself but it was the recent suicide of a friend driving her to help address a mental helth crisis facing the hospitality industry.

China has told Britain to stay away from Hong Kong after the United Kingdom government called the Chinese government to honour the agreements made when the city was handed over in 1997.

British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt warned of consequences if China neglected its commitment to guarantee basic human rights.

This warning was denounced as shameless by the Chinese government who says Hong Kong is now returned to the Motherland and Britain should let go of colony mindset.

Navy Seal, Chief Edward Gallagher, has been acquitted of murder after a photo was taken of him posing with a dead corpse of an enemy fighter.

Chief Gallagher was sentenced to 4 months’ of confident by a military jury and at the start of the trial he faced a possibility of life in prison. 

President Donald Trump congratulated the chief via twitter and explained that he was glad that he could help.

The Federal Government is seeking advice on covering the cost of stillbirth autopsies in an attempt to prevent further deaths

Australia’s stillbirth rate has not dropped in two decades and the government is discussing the possibility of adding stillbirth autopsies as a new Medicare item, providing $4,000 per autopsy.

The funding could provide an answer for up to 50 per cent of cases involving stillbirth or congenital abnormalities leading to death. 

More than 500 workers at Blacktown City Council in Sydney have stopped work and have begun to strike after union officials claimed they were told that if they refused to use weedkiller they would be forced out of their jobs.

More than 10,000 bins were left uncollected yesterday and workers are meeting this morning to decide whether to continue the strike. 

Eight former Logan councillors have lost their appeal to delay a civil case while they face criminal charges over their alleged plot to sack their chief executive.

Former CEO Sharon Kelsey is suing the group after she was let go in February last year and the councillors are also facing criminal charges over the same allegations.

Potentially deadly combustible cladding will be banned from all new Queensland buildings.

The combustible cladding ban includes all aluminium composite panels with a polyethylene core of more than 30 per cent and will restrict usage across all buildings in Queensland.

The ban will protect Queenslanders but Housing Minister Mick de Brenni is calling on the federal government to protect all Australians by introducing an importation ban on all aluminium composite panels with a PE core.

An air strike has hit a detention centre for migrants in the Lybian capital,Tripoli, killing at least 40 people and wounding 80 others.

The centre which held migrants mainly from African countries was located next to a military camp.

A Libyian National Army official denied his force had hit the detention centre, and said militias allied to Tripoli had shelled it after a precision airstrike by the LNA on  the camp.