Environmentalists from across Australia are in Brisbane for the second day of the Climate Reality leadership training.

The conference is run by Al Gore’s Climate Reality project and aims to promote climate discussion and leadership.

Al Gore, who welcomed everyone yesterday, said the training is made up of over 60% women for the first time.

Thailand's junta chief Prayut Chan-O-Cha was elected late Wednesday as the kingdom's first civilian prime minister since 2014.

Prayut swept aside his sole challenger garnering 500 votes , while Thanathorn Juangroongruangkit had 244 votes.

Critics say Prayut represents a narrow elite and lacks the vision to govern as a civilian leader, having failed as junta leader to reboot Thailand's economy.

In India, over 100,000 kids are killed each year from air pollution, a report finds.

The UN found India has 14 out of 15 of the world’s most polluted cities, and it causes 12.5 per cent of all deaths in the country annually.

Despite calls for action against pollution around the globe, Indian politicians have repeatedly failed to address environmental concerns.

A United Nations working group has called on the Australian government to immediately release and compensate a 35-year-old Tamil refugee with multiple disabilities, who has been in detention for more than nine years

The man is legally blind, has a number of mental health issues and an acquired brain injury which occurred in Sri Lanka.

The man's lawyer and director of Human Rights for All- Alison Battisson, said to the press this is highly embarrassing for Australia’s record as his client is a good international citizen.

The AFP have raided the ABC yesterday for information about a piece the ABC had written in 2017 called the Afghan files.

ABC reporter John Lyons via twitter has reported there have been approximately 50 files that the AFP have seized from the ABC.

The Australian federal police have said  about the raid via a press release “This is the result of supporting documentation or material being presented to the court which provides sufficient suspicion that a criminal offence has been committed.”

Queensland is the worst Australian state per capita for suicide: statics show that 804 people committed suicide last year in Queensland, more than three times the number of people who died on the state's roads.

In an attempt to halve this number, the Queensland Government will commit $62 million in next week’s state budget to fund suicide prevention and support services.

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The owner of the derelict Broadway Hotel in Woolloongabba has taken the Australian Institute of Architects to court, claiming the peak body defamed him in an email to its Queensland members.

East Brisbane general practitioner Malcolm Nyst, the Broadway’s owner, lodged a claim in the Brisbane District Court on March 29 against the national peak architects body and the executive director of its Queensland branch Melissa Greenall.