A new United Nations committee report has found life saving medical procedures, such as surgeries, are becoming increasingly risky due to alarming levels of resistance to antimicrobial drugs.

The authors of the report, who have named this issue a “global crisis”, wrote that common diseases, such as tuberculosis, are becoming untreatable in all countries of all income levels as a result of resistance to antibiotics, antivirals, antifungals and antiprotozoals.

The first high-rise inner-city high school currently being built has revealed catchment boundaries for its potential students.

The boundaries were publicly released yesterday for the Inner City North State Secondary College by Education Queensland, surrounding the school being built on the corner of St Pauls Terrace and Brookes Street in Fortitude Valley.

A Brisbane train line has reopened after a fatal incident this morning.

Shorncliffe trains were suspended in both directions during most of this morning’s peak hours, and TransLink have said commuters may still face up to 60 minutes of delays, despite services resuming at about 8:30am.

Police investigations are ongoing and buses are continuing to operate to assist the service delays.

Pauline Hanson states she believes her party has been unfairly targeted following the leak of footage showing her party’s candidate Steve Dickson in a Washington DC stripclub.

She pointed out Kevin Rudd’s 2003 visit to a New York strip club, though the manager of this club has stated in the past Rudd urged his colleagues to leave and behaved like a gentleman during his short visit.

The footage of Dickson, conversely, shows him making several derogatory comments about the dancers and touching one of them inappropriately.

A candidate for Clive Palmer’s United Australia party has attempted and failed to trade favourable coverage in regional newspaper, Shepparton news, for a large advertising payment.

The paper quickly rejected the offer saying decisions made on editorial content are based on news value.

One United Australia party senator predicts the party’s advertising spending will exceed $60 million by the end of the campaign.

A new study has found that more children are surviving into adulthood as the world’s population continues to rise, but the number of disabled people has also increased.

The JAMA Pediatrics journal published research that has found a decrease of 51.7% of global child and adolescent deaths from 1990 to 2017, but there has been a 4.7% increase of disability.

Tougher safety regulations have been implemented starting today for Queensland amusement rides and theme parks following the Dreamworld tragedy which claimed four lives.

New regulations will require major inspections of rides by qualified engineers every 10 years and improved training of ride operators.

Industrial Relations Minister Grace Grace says the government is taking action to ensure tourists and the wider community have faith in the safety measures that are in place.

NASA is undertaking a “doomsday” exercise this week in preparation for the end of the world.

The purpose of the rehearsal, which began yesterday, is to ascertain what would happen in the event an asteroid does in fact hit the Earth and how survivors would react to a potential apocalypse as a result.

The drill has been named the Hypothetical Asteroid Impact Scenario and considers all possibilities of the event ranging from when the make-believe asteroid was initially discovered, its hypothetical orbit size, as well as potential hit zones across the world.

The first provisional step has been taken by the Trump administration towards protecting Giraffe’s under the Endangered Species Act.

This move comes as a result of legal pressure from environmental groups because the population of the World’s tallest land animal in Africa has declined by about 40 per cent in the past 30 years according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature.