Lewd, homophobic and anti-religious slurs appear to have been exchanged by Victorian Liberal delegates at last weekend’s state council meeting.

A series of messages were published on social media app Jodel and despite being anonymous, were posted using the Liberal’s official state council hashtag and originated from Moonee Ponds, where the council meeting took place.

The scandal comes after Liberal party chiefs called on state council delegates to unite and clean up their acts.

Nurmuhammad Tohti, a well-known Uighur writer has died in a Chinese internment camp after he was forcibly picked up by state authorities last year.

According to a report by The Uighur Human Rights Project, a Washington-based reporting and advocacy organisation, hundreds of Uighur journalists, students and intellectuals are being taken by state-run internment camps.

China’s internment camps are being criticised by international rights organisations who accuse the government of violating basic human rights.

On Wednesday, Kenya’s high court ruled that rape survivors have the right to an abortion.

Kenya’s strict abortion laws in the past have driven thousands of women to go to dodgy clinics and untrained professionals.

Kenyan authorities have been ordered to pay almost $30 000 in damages to the mother of a teenage victim who died after a botched abortion

Bus and train ticketing via phones and plastic is set to be tested in regional Queensland.

Paying for transport via this system is currently used in London and being trialled in New York.

If successful it is set to be rolled out in regional Queensland later this year and will be the first time Queensland has a statewide public transport ticketing system.

An indigenous boy with an intellectual impairment was left naked for three days in Brisbane’s maximum-security police watch house after refusing to wear a suicide smock.

Documents obtained by the ABC under right to information reveal that three officers pinned the boy down to undress him then left him in a cell with only a blanket.

Frances Quan Farrant from People with Disability Australia says she is outraged, describing it as ‘absolutely vile’.

The pesticide fipronil which is used in agricultural crops and termites in buildings has been blamed for the deaths of up to 10 million bees in southern New South Wales.

According to Beekeeper Mr Carter, one drop of this poison from one bee that takes it back to the hive will then kill the whole hive.

Five beekeepers lost the bees from 340 Hives in April after they were poisoned by the pesticide.

Workers at one of the largest egg producers in Australia, Bridgewater Poultry, have been caught kicking, throwing and abusing hens by animal rights activists who secretly recorded and leaked the videos.

Bridgewater Poultry sells eggs under multiple labels including Loddon Valley Eggs, Victorian Fresh Eggs and Country Fresh Eggs and make up about ten percent of the national egg market.

Rosko Osbourne from Animal Liberation New South Wales who supplied the video claimed it represented a broader problem in the egg industry.

Egypt’s former President Mohammed Morsi has collapsed in a courtroom and died.

According to officials Morsi, who had been in custody since 2013 on espionage charges, had just addressed the court on the charges.

The cause of death has not been confirmed but the Muslim Brotherhood are calling it a ‘full- fledged murder’, with activists and his family saying Morsi was denied access to treatment for various health conditions.

Kenyan authorities have reassured the public and foreign visitors on Monday after a suspected Ebola outbreak turned out to be false.

The case was reported near their border with Uganda where an ebola outbreak was recorded earlier.

The woman suspected of having the disease had the symptoms of ebola but was cleared by medical staff and is in a stable condition.