The first terminally ill Australian has been granted access to receive life ending euthanasia drugs under Victoria’s landmark euthanasia laws.

No details on the age or illness of the patient is available under the strict wording of the law which also ensures patients must have six months to live or 12 months for those possessing a neurodegenerative disease.

However, with the program in its infancy there are fears there are not enough qualified doctors and that the scheme may be hard to access with its conservative guidelines. 

Queensland’s third publicly-owned electricity generator, CleanCo, will commence trading in the national electricity market on October 31, encouraging up to 400 megawatts of new generation and storage.

CleanCo is working with 10 short-listed renewable energy proponents to boost its starting pack, including the Wivenhoe and Swanbank E power stations near Ipswich. 

New guidelines surrounding the renovation of old Queenslander houses will be released by the Brisbane City Council next month. 

Over 800 residents contributed to determine the Queenslander character elements they want protected by the not-legally enforceable guidelines.

City Planning chairman Matthew Bourke says the guidelines will ensure the traditional Queenslander lives on in Brisbane with adaptations and extensions  of a “sympathetic nature to capture the Queenslander”.

The Queensland State Government has announced a $10 million study which will investigate the possibility of a south-east Queensland bid to host the 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The inquiry will examine potential venues and infrastructure, as well as the funding required and where it would come from.

According to Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, the cost of the study would largely be delivered by current staff and resources.

Thirty-one psychologists who spoke to the ABC have stated they are ‘financially ruined’ after joining a counselling franchise in the Gold Coast. 

Life resolutions was founded in 2001 by Mary Magalotti, a high-ranking executive of the Australian Psychology Society, and Jodie Brenton, who has a background in marketing and advertising. 

Many psychologists borrowed heavily to buy into the franchise but found they were unable to repay their debts, claiming that the company charged large fees and failed to deliver clients in sufficient numbers.

A Melbourne Catholic boys school has settled a case between two students after a boy, in year 7 at the time, was allegedly raped by a student in year 12.

The victim and his family sued Whitefriars College for negligence arguing the boy has suffered severe post traumatic stress disorder and borderline personality traits from the incident.

The school declined to answer questions about the incident, including whether they have made any policy changes to protect students in the future.

Animal rights activists who invade farms to stage protests will be hit with huge new fines in measures announced by Australia’s south-eastern state government after they were branded as ‘domestic terrorists’ by the region’s deputy leader.

The penalties follows a series of demonstrations and direct action staged by vegan activists on private farms and abattoirs in recent months.

Prime minister Scott Morrison recently pledged to introduce national legislation to crack down on animal rights activists invading private properties.

India successfully launched its second lunar mission one week after halting the initial scheduled blast due to a technical snag.

The spacecraft has entered the Earth’s orbit and will stay there for 23 days before beginning a series of manoeuvres, taking it into lunar orbit.

India hopes the $154 million mission will be the first to land on the Moon’s south pole, also making it the fourth country to land on the Moon’s surface.