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.

The Queensland government has commenced legal proceedings against Adani in Brisbane’s magistrates court over a report it produced on its Carmichael Mine operations. 

The Department of Environment and Science alleges Adani’s 2017/2018 annual return contained false and misleading information about land disturbances undertaken at the coal mine in the Galilee Basin. 

Refugees on Manus Island are being delivered what is being called symbolic Aboriginal ‘passports’ signed by Aboriginal Elders as well as letters of solidarity from many Australians to show support during their struggles in detention.

The month long boat Journey from Cairns to Manus to deliver these items will raise awareness of what the organisers of the event are calling massive human rights violations to the hundreds of refugees held in processing centres since 2013. 

Historical trauma and cultural dispossession has contributed to lower emotional and social well-being among Aboriginal Victorians, the state's mental health royal commission has heard.

The inquiry heard Aboriginal Victorians are twice as likely to be hospitalised for mental health issues and three times more likely to experience high levels of psychological distress compared to the general population.