A 6,600-year-old, highly sophisticated aquaculture system developed by the Gunditjmara people will be formally considered for a place on the UNESCO world heritage list.

Known as the Budj Bim cultural landscape, the site in south-west Victoria is home to a long dormant volcano, which was the source of the Tyrendarra lava flow.

The Budj Bim cultural landscape is largely managed by the Gunditj Mirring Traditional Owners Aboriginal Corporation, who also protect the Gunditjmara-owned properties along the lava flow.

Former Australian of the Year Professor Ian Frazer has developed a vaccine aimed at treating HPV-related cancers of the head, neck, throat and tongue.

The vaccine works by teaching the patient’s immune system to target the cancer cells containing HPV.

Professor Frazer said it could give a second chance at life for cancer sufferers.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has demanded time frames for approvals on the Adani mine by the end of the week.

The State government is yet to approve two environmental hurdles before the project, proposed for the Galilee basin, can commence.

Ms Palaszczuk said she believes Queenslanders have “had a gutful” on the issue and that she is expecting a definite time frame by Friday.

A Brisbane veterinary clinic has performed a surgery to remove a part of a snake's jaw to help it eat again.

Veterinarian Emma Sciacca said the three-kilogram snake had a bone trauma to the right lower jaw that caused its teeth to heal abnormally.

The procedure was a first for the Brisbane Bird and Exotics Veterinary Services team when three-and-a-half-year-old python Tigerlilly was brought to them after refusing to eat for three months.

The restaurant at Brisbane's Gallery Of Modern Art is teaming up with Melbourne's two-hatted Lume to present six courses to diners during Good Food Month.

GOMA executive chef Doug Innes-Will said the choice to collaborate with Lume, headed by John Rivera, was easy.

Mr Innes said they have been huge admirers of Lume and John's food and are looking forward to the collaboration.

A $6.7 billion Chinese mega mine coal project bid adjacent to the Adani venture in Queensland's has been abandoned in the Galilee Basin.

The proposed China Stone open-cut and underground thermal coal mine was planned to be built 300 kilometres west of Mackay, promising more than 3,000 jobs.

It would be the closest mine to Adani's Carmichael coal project, with the sites just 30 kilometres apart.

A new report has shown that the public health system is facing increased pressure as Australians are affected by more vaccine-preventable diseases.

The latest Admitted Patient Care 2017-18 report showed 11.3 million admissions to hospital, with a 3.8 per cent growth in hospital visits.

The Australian Institute of Health said older Australians are a “key driver” of the growth, with older age groups going to hospital at a higher rate.

The United Nations General Assembly has called for Britain to give up control over the Chagos Islands within six months.

The Islands, home to a joint US and British airbase, were detached from Maritius in 1965 to later form the British Indian Ocean Territory.

The call supported an International Court of Justice opinion issued in February which found that Britain had unlawfully participated in the decolonisation process and should relinquish control.

A senior UN security expert has warned that nuclear war is its the highest risk since WWII.

Renata Dwan, UN Institute for Disarmament Research director, said the arms control landscape is changing, partly due to strategic competition between the US and China, increasing the threat of nuclear weapons use.

Dwan told reporters in Geneva on Wednesday that increasing prevalence of armed groups is blurring the line between offence and defence.