News Corp Australia plans to implement a widespread round of targeted redundancies in the next few days, including 55 editorial positions.

Executive Chairman Michael Miller has publicly warned that long-term employees who lack digital skills in the newsroom would be leaving the company.

Management held meetings across departments yesterday following press interviews in which Mr Miller said the company would have to downsize to remain profitable and they were looking for ‘new skills’.

Home Affairs Minister, Peter Dutton, will visit Colombo in Sri Lanka today, with a bid to stop asylum seekers and people smuggling at the top of his agenda.

A spokesperson for Mr Dutton, said his purpose was to implement the interests of ‘Operation Sovereign Borders’ and to discuss counter terrorism matters.

It comes after a boat carrying 20 Sri Lankan asylum seekers was intercepted off Australia’s coast last week.

Security forces stormed a protest camp in Khartoum, Sudan's last Monday, killing over 30 people.

The protests were apart of a widespread anti-government movement in Sudan.

The violence on Monday is likely to deal a blow for hopes to re-start talks on a negotiated settlement over who should govern in a transitional period after the overthrow of President Omar al-Bashir in April.  

Thousands of Indigenous women and girls who have vanished or been killed in Canada over the past few decades have been identified as part of a ‘Canadian genocide’, according to a leaked report of a national inquiry.

The report, titled Reclaiming Power and Place includes the testimonies of over 1400 family members and survivors as well as 83 knowledge-keepers, experts and officials.

A recent study by the Australian Housing and Urban Research institute released a report last Thursday finding Brisbane’s homeless populations are being pushed further out into the suburbs.

The report also found that Brisbane youth and older women are being forced into homelessness due to high rents and lack of entry-level jobs .

Two Brisbane watch-house officers have been suspended from the Queensland Police Services over their handling of a teenager in detention.

There was an alleged use of excessive force on a 16-year-old male detainee in the Brisbane watch-house.

These charges have come after ABC’s four corners report on the detention of Queensland children in adult watch houses due to the overcrowding of youth detention centres.

The private details of almost 100,000 Australian Westpac customers were exposed due to a recent cyber-attack.

The attack was on real-time payments on the platform PayID which allows an instant transfer of money between bank accounts.

Experts warn access to these details could lead to fraud on a mass scale.

Since the coalition government’s re-election on May 18, the number of self-harm and suicide attempts by refugees in offshore detention has surpassed 30.
 

Following separate incidents on Monday, two asylum seekers have received treatment at the Pacific International Hospital.
 

Ian Rintoul, a spokesman for the Refugee Action Coalition describes the situation on Manus Island as a ‘downward spiral’.  

A Swedish court has rejected a request to detain whistleblower Julian Assange over a rape case in 2010.

The court ruled in favour of Assange's Lawyer saying the detention order was not “proportionate” as he was imprisoned in Britain and the investigation into his case could proceed in other ways.

Swedish deputy director of public prosecutions, Eva-Marie Persson, told the court Assange had not cooperated with Swedish authorities and needed to be detained and questioned in Sweden.