Organisers of a university fun run have been accused of sexism for their different treatment of male and female winners.

25-year-old Alex Blake was the fastest female runner. She has called out organisers of the Queensland University of Technology Classic fun run for awarding male winners a ribbon crossing and $300 cheques while the female winners only received a prize pack.

QUT Classic eventually agreed to restructure winnings after the race director initially told Blake to finish top 3 if she wanted greater reward.

A capsized boat off Thursday Island has left its crew clinging to a channel marker overnight until they were rescued by helicopter on Monday.

The four men - aged 51, 38, 21 and 16 - set off from Seisia Wharf at 3 o’clock on Sunday afternoon, but authorities were called when they hadn’t arrived home later that evening.

Police believe the foursome had been stranded for 13 hours before their rescue.

A man has been charged after riding a horse into a protester participating in the Bob Brown Foundation’s anti-Adani convoy.

The Mackay Magistrates Court charged 41 year old Clinton McDonald with a number of charges including “dangerous operation of a vehicle causing grievous bodily harm” when he struck a 61 year old woman was while she walking through a gate.

Mr McDonald was seen crying in the dock when he appeared before the court where he was granted bail with a warning.

Hundreds have been evacuated from the Qantas Terminal at Melbourne Airport after a smoke alarm was set off in the food court.

Passengers have been told to expect delays, with long queues already forming at the check-in desks.

This comes in the wake of yesterday’s SmartGate kiosk outages which left international travellers facing long delays.

Donald Trump’s Deputy Attorney-General Rod Rosenstein has lodged a letter of resignation to the US President.

His departure has been expected since William Barr’s appointment as Attorney-General but he chose to stay in the role until the release of the Mueller report.

Rosenstein was involved with Barr in processing the report for public release and was responsible for appointing Mueller after former Attorney-General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the investigation.

More than 300 Indonesian election workers have died after assisting in the polls for the world’s third largest democracy.

Over 192.8 million people were eligible to hit the polls on April 17th, with 6 million workers required to aid the process.

Most of the 300 deaths attributed to the election were the result of fatigue, resulting in exhaustion and heart attacks.

The state government will be debating a new law that will require a minimum 20-year prison sentence for parents responsible for long-term abuse resulting in the death of their children.

The plan is to redefine the charge of murder to include death caused by an “act or omission with reckless indifference to human life”.

Attorney-General Yvette D'Ath said, "This child homicide offence seeks to capture those most awful cases that the Palaszczuk government wants to see convictions of murder and a minimum of 20 years for.”

Clive Palmer has finally forked over the $7 million he owed to sacked Queensland Nickel workers.

Mr Palmer said he would pay the $7.16 million owed to workers  after the collapse of his nickel business over two weeks ago, but as of Monday morning the money was yet to be paid.

However, a few hours later, Mr Palmer told reporters he had “arranged a payment of $7 million...to be paid in a solicitor's trust account so he [can] pay all the workers."

Security experts have identified a broken security gate at Sydney Airport to be a serious security risk that has left to airport vulnerable to intruders for the past 6 months.

Former police officer Craig Sheridan stated, “Any hostile actor or planned terrorist can certainly enter through that security gate and access the tarmac.”

The gate in question was located at the Qantas freight terminal at the end of a public road, leaving it open for public access.