A police report has shown that less than 1 per cent of accused domestic violence offenders in Queensland are being monitored with GPS trackers while out on bail.

21 alleged domestic violence offenders were fitted with an electronic device when released on bail in the 12 months from March 2018 to March this year.

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Three of China’s biggest airlines have filed claims seeking compensation following the grounding and delivery delays of 737 MAX 8 Aircraft.

Reports emerged on Wednesday that China Southern Airlines, China Eastern Airlines and Air China would be seeking compensation after the aircraft were grounded following two deadly crashes earlier this year.

Neither the report nor airline spokespeople gave any financial or other details on the claim, although its existence has been confirmed.

A study conducted in Germany has showed that women's brains work better when the office air conditioning is set at a higher temperature while men prefer it cooler.

The study tested the ability of 500 men and women to perform a series of tasks at a variety of temperatures.

For women, the increase in performance while working in warmer temperatures was "significantly larger" than the decrease in male performance.

Nearly 100 people are set to lose their jobs as dairy company Fonterra closes its western Victorian factory.

The New Zealand-based processor said its plant based in Dennington, which employs 98 people, is no longer viable and is to close later this year.

Fonterra boss Miles Hurrell said the drought has decreased supply in Australia which means there is excess manufacturing capacity in the dairy industry but it is the company’s goal to ensure the workers are supported at this time.

Ministers of religion in Western Australia will soon have to report child sexual abuse even if the information is gained under confession.

The WA Government said it expected to introduce the necessary amendments in the second half of this year following the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse.

Anyone convicted of failing to report child sexual abuse faces a $6,000 fine.

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The trial of former Ipswich mayor Andrew Antoniolli , who was accused of fraud, has heard that evidence showed a problematic culture at Ipswich city council, but not necessarily criminality.

Antoniolli was accused of 12 counts of fraud for allegedly by using the council’s community donations fund to pay for his own use at charity auctions and community events.

The charges followed a Crime and Corruption Commission investigation that led to the sacking of the entire council in 2018.

Almost two decades after the introduction of women-only train carriages, female commuters in Japan are turning to technology to tackle molesters on packed rush-hour trains.

The Digi Police app enables victims of groping to draw attention to any issues by activating a voice shouting “Stop it!” or bring up a full-screen message reading, “There is a molester. Please help” that they can show to other passengers.

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Tiny fossils found in mudrock in the barren wilderness of the Canadian Arctic are the remains of the oldest known fungus on Earth, scientists have said.

The minuscule organisms were discovered in shallow water shale, a kind of fine-grained sedimentary rock, in a region south of Victoria island on the edge of the Arctic Ocean.

Tests on the shale, which accumulated over millions of years in a river or lake, revealed that it formed between 900 million and 1 billion years ago in what is now the Northwest Territories.

The nation's biggest cattle company,  The Australian Agricultural Company, said extreme weather conditions across northern Australia have cost it more than $100 million in losses.

In reporting its full year financial results, the chief executive officer Hugh Killen confirmed a loss of EBITDA (earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation) of $182.7 million.

Mr Killen told investors the company had sustained stock losses of 43,000 head in record flooding on several Gulf of Carpentaria stations in February.