Beekeepers around the country have reported one of the worst honey seasons with South Australia’s honey production down 50-70% compared to this time last year.

As a result of a lack of rainfall key plant species did not flower and combined with a string of record high temperature days the bees in the South Australia were left weak and vulnerable.

Beekeeper, Jill Trewartha located about 45 kilometers south of Adelaide says her business has had less than a  third of the honey they would usually take.

The New South Wales police force have been ordered to apologise for ‘racially vilifying’ Palestinians and Arabs after wearing their traditional headscarves in a terrorism training exercise in October 2017.

The NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal on Thursday found the use of the scarves was an ‘unreasonable and unnecessary’ way of identifying the armed offenders in the scenario.

Alliance Airlines announced today they will expand its Queensland operations and establish a new base in Rockhampton.

The Managing Director of Alliance, Scott McMillan, says today’s announcement by Alliance Airlines is the first step in developing a significant operational base in Rockhampton.

Mr McMillian says Alliance is currently advertising to employ Rockhampton locals, as part of a Government initiative in becoming a substantial contributor to the Rockhampton economy.

The Palaszczuk Government has commissioned the Queensland Productivity Commission (QPC) to analyse the price impacts on beverages in the first year of the container refund scheme.

Minister for Environment Leeanne Enoch says the QPC will monitor and report on prices of a number of beverages to ensure that beverage companies are acting fairly and that prices are in line with the costs of the scheme.

Teachers in Florida will be able to arm themselves with guns in classrooms under a new bill that passed in both Florida’s House of Representatives and Senate by a Republican majority.

Once Republic Governor Ron DeSantis signs the bill into law, school districts will be able to arm teachers who participate in a voluntary 144-hour training course, with school employees in 40 of Florida’s 67 counties already enrolled in the course.

British Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has been fired after an information leak was revealed in an investigation.

The leaks investigated came from a secret government meeting about Chinese telecoms firm Huawei.

UK Prime Minister said she no longer had full confidence in Williamson following the investigation and that there was compelling evidence suggesting his responsibility for the unauthorised disclosure of the information.

NAB has cut its dividends to shareholders in a bid to maintain a more sustainable financial situation.

The bank had previously been giving out almost 100 per cent of its earnings to its shareholders, whose 99 cents a share was cut by 16 per cent to 83 cents a share.

NAB chief executive Philip Chronician said the decision was difficult and the bank acknowledged that shareholders rely on dividends for income, but they need to ensure they have a strong bank.

The Palaszczuk Government is under pressure to release its funding commitment for the next stage of the Gold Coast light rail project.

The focus remained on both the Morrison Government and Labor’s Gold Coast-based Senator Murray Watt after it was discovered the federal funding offers from both major parties was $45 million short.

Federal Labor has allegedly been refusing to fight for extra funding above the Commonwealth commitment of $112 million for the project, which will see the trams extended from Broadbeach to Burleigh.

A Bill aiming to tackle gun crime introduced into the Queensland Parliament will allow police to impose orders giving officers the right to search suspects without a warrant.

As part of the LNP’s gun reform proposal, opposition police spokesman Trevor Watts is introducing a private member’s bill that gives the police commissioner discretion to ban ‘high-risk’ Queenslanders from purchasing and operating  firearms if they are not, in the public interest, considered fit to possess a firearm.

Australians will be able to get quicker access to free and affordable medicines regardless of who wins the federal election as a result of Labor matching a coalition promise.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced the most substantial change to the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme since 1986 on Thursday, giving more affordable and free medicine faster to 1.4 million Australians.

This policy, which costs $308 million, is set to save patients up to $80 per year.