Foxtel have resorted to offering unprecedented discounts on membership following a spike in unsubscriptions after the Game of Thrones finale aired.

The service emailed customers with the message, ‘There is life after Game of Thrones’ and offered membership from as little as $10 a month, for 12 months.

These price cuts come after News Corp revealed the companies growing financial troubles last month.

Asylum seekers on Manus and Nauru and refugee activists have called Scott Morrison’s election win ‘terrible news’.

Scott Morrison has announced cuts to migration numbers as mental health on Manus Island and Nauru is continuing to decline with shattered hopes of policy changes.

Sudanese refugee Abdul Aziz Muhamat told SBS Ararbic24 that their hopes have been crushed, with another asylum seeker tweeting from the island, begged Australia to show some compassion.

A timber mill in the Snowy Mountains is using its excess sawdust to generate its own bio-energy.

The project manager Michael Dyer states that the sawdust struggled to find a home but now can be used as energy to create hot water that operates five kilns.

According Dyer this new innovation will eventually make the future of timber mills more sustainable.

An electronic fund transfer fraud has a Brisbane couple $1 million out of pocket.

The couples company bookkeeper has been charged with 250 accounts of fraud and fraud-related offences in relation to the missing money.

The couple urges banks to be more accountable for electronic fund transfer fraud.

Six new station upgrades will be announced for Brisbane’s southside.

Queensland Minister for Transport and Main roads, Mark Bailey, will make the announcement in Moorooka today.

Local residents say they welcome the upgrades after nearby areas have already received their hand of funding.

Shadow Treasurer, Chris Bowen, has declared he will run for the leadership of the Labor party.

Mr Bowen of the Right faction, oversaw the ambitious tax changes the party took to the election.

He will likely face Labor frontbenchers Anthony Albanese and Jim Chalmers.

Cardinal George Pell’s contempt charges against Sydney 2GB broadcaster Ray Hadley and the Herald Sun’s editor Damon Johnston have been dropped.

On Monday, Hadley and Johnston were removed from the list of journalists and outlets facing contempt charges.

However, Victoria’s Director of Public Prosecutions will continue action against the news organisations, as the charges relate to the reporting of Pell’s trial which had non-publication orders.

Indian renewable energy investments have been made to outpace the growth of fossil fuels.

74% of India’s electricity comes from coal and it places as the third-largest contributor to greenhouse gasses.

The country is on track to meet its obligations to pledge 175 gigawatts of renewable energy online under the Paris climate agreement.

Federal prosecutors in New York have analysed tens of thousands of documents relating to Trump’s inauguration.

The documents include records about President Trump's inaugural finances, vendors and donations.

Authorities are investigating whether any of the $107 million in donations were misspent, used improperly for the benefit of certain individuals, or have come from foreign donors.