Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has expelled two cabinet ministers he said undermined the ruling liberals.

Ms Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpot will no longer be allowed to sit in parliament as liberal legislators following demands for their removal as they were “undermining party unity”.

Mr Trudeau said that “civil wars within parties are incredibly damaging because they signal to Canadians that [politicians] care more about [themselves] than [they] do about [the people].”

A whistleblower has claimed that the New South Wales healthcare watchdog is failing to properly assess hundreds of patients' complaints because of "a dysfunctional workplace culture".

The Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC) is an independent government body that assesses, investigates and prosecutes medical complaints throughout the state.

A West Australian MP has delivered a filibuster on surrogacy law reform stretching more than 12 hours to give MPs more time to consider a new surrogacy review only just published by the government.

Liberal Party MP Nick Goiran said he plans to continue the filibuster so MPs can read the report before a proposed bill comes to a vote that would allow single men and same sex couples to access altruistic surrogacy arrangements.

A Brisbane man who was jailed in Egypt for over a year without charge has been released and is on his way back to Australia.

Hazem Hamouda, a 55-year-old Australian citizen, was detained shortly after landing at Cairo International Airport on the 25th of January 2018 in what was meant to be a short holiday with his children.

The Queensland Parliament has passed new legislation dubbed “lemon laws” making it easier for vehicle owners to make claims on faulty vehicles.

The law has raised the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal’s previous jurisdictional limit from $25,000 so that the Tribunal can now hear claims for up to $100,000 on new and used cars, motorbikes, motor homes and caravans.

A 78-year-old Hobart woman with a broken foot, split lip, cut nose and a strained wrist was told she was too old to be admitted to Hobart Private Hospital.

The 78-year-old, who asked to remain anonymous, was in desperate need of medical care and her daughter-in-law, Sheree Morriss says she had been paying for private health cover for years but when she was rushed to HPH following a “nasty fall” she was turned away.

Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika has resigned from office following weeks of mass protests.

The 82-year-old has been in office for twenty years but has rarely been seen in public since his stroke in 2013.

Algerian Defence Ministry called on Tuesday for the President to quit “‘immediately”. The ministry says, "there is no more time to waste" after six weeks of nationwide protests against the chief of state and his inner circle.

Solomon Island locals say they are not worried by recent rumours of electoral interference and electoral blockades as they head to the polls surrounded by tight security this morning.

Around 1,600 local police officers have been deployed across the country while Solomon Islanders cast their ballots to choose 50 members of Parliament from 333 candidates and 15 different parties.