Street cleaners in some parts of China are reportedly being forced to wear GPS-tracking smartwatches so employers can monitor how hard they work,

According to a recent Xinhua News Agency report, it is mandatory for cleaners employed by the Nanjing West Bank Environmental Service to wear smartwatches while working, raising concerns about mass surveillance across the country.

The smartwatch is said to sound an alarm after 20 minutes of worker inactivity and also reports their activity back to the company's control room.

A female astronaut is due to set the record for longest spaceflight by a woman, NASA said.

Astronaut Christina Koch, who was a part of a spacewalk initially intended to be all-female last month, will remain in orbit on board the International Space Station until February.

While the typical stay in space for astronauts is six months, Koch will spend 328 days in space to study the effects of long spaceflights on the human body.

The Royal Automobile Association of South Australia has warned that Adelaide motorists are being conditioned to accept higher fuel prices.

RAA technical advisory service manager, Andrew Clark, said retailers have increased their usual profit margin, with prices per litre sitting at 30 cents above the wholesale price, with motorists paying around $1.60 per litre.

Bill Shorten has announced a new $115 million pledge to Indigenous health that focuses on preventing youth suicide as he campaigns in the Northern Territory today.

Mr Shorten said the Indigenous health package, which would direct almost $30 million to Indigenous youth mental health and suicide prevention, ensures First Australians have ‘the fundamental right to grow old’ and said improving the health of First Australians is critical to reconciliation.

The ward of Chandler remains without a councillor following Adrian Schrinner’s appointment as Brisbane Lord Mayor last week.

The LNP has two months to select a new councillor for the ward, meaning a decision may not be made until after the federal election on the 18 May.

The wards of Coorparoo, McDowall and Walter Taylor have also seen changes with councillors resigning to contest the federal election.

A $36.3 million Toowong high school expansion has been moved a few metres to save a 300-year-old tree of Aboriginal significance that would have been destroyed.

The news of the revision for Queensland Academy for Science, Mathematics and Technology follows the beginning of construction for the three-storey centre on Wednesday.

Education Minister Grace Grace described the outcome as "a win" but Save Toowong Creek spokeswoman Julie Lloyd said the minister needed to look at the bigger picture.

Climate change activists have glued themselves to the roof of a train in London on the third day of protests in the city.

The Extinction Rebellion group organised protests which have resulted in the shutdown of major traffic routes and 300 arrests since Monday.

US scientists have conducted an experiment in restoring circulation and cellular activity in the brains of pigs which had died four hours earlier.

The study shows brain cell death could be halted and some connections could be restored, offering a new way of researching diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

A new study has found that Aboriginal mothers are over-represented in New South Wales prisons and face unique challenges that could be passed down to their children.

The paper said Aboriginal mothers in NSW were characterised by significantly high levels of self-reported distress, poor mental health status and high levels of mental health diagnoses.

Documents have revealed that Adani did not accept expert advice provided by GeoScience Australia and CSIRO on how the environmental impact of its Carmichael coal mine could be limited.

Environment Minister Melissa Price said that Adani accepted the advice “in full”, but documents from GeoScience Australia showed the company did not accept key advice for its groundwater plan.