An external investigation is set to be carried out at Victoria’s Latrobe Regional Hospital after allegations of staff bullying and intimidation have surfaced in the mental health unit.

The hospital’s Acting Chief Executive Don McRae said the review would start next week and "cover the entire LRH mental health service including inpatient and community-based services".

Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten faced off in Perth last night for their first debate before the election next month.

The debate was strong but followed the usual headlines of the election to date, with Morrison pressing Shorten for the cost of his policies while Shorten attacked Morrison for favouring high-income earners and entering a preference deal with Clive Palmer.

25 of the 48 undecided voters who made up the audience gave the debate to Shorten, with 12 choosing Morrison and 11 remaining undecided.

Chinese debtors are being named and shamed on the big screen, with headshots of residents owing money to the state appearing before the highly anticipated premiere of Avengers: Endgame.  

Isolated reports of this phenomenon first appeared last year in the south-western Sichuan province, but now appear to have been rolled out on a much larger scale across the country.

A US Afghanistan war veteran has been charged over an alleged plot to detonate a nail bomb at an LA white nationalist rally following an FBI sting on Monday.

26-year old Mark Steven Domingo is a former US Army infantryman who later converted to Islam. He was taken into custody on Friday after repeatedly stating he wanted to cause mass casualties.

One Nation candidate for the Queensland Senate Steve Dickson has offered his resignation after footage was released of him at a strip club in Washington DC.

The footage was recorded during Al Jazeera’s undercover investigation into One Nation and the American National Rifle Association and aired on A Current Affair last night.

Dickson has apologised for the video which shows him making derogatory comments about women and touching a dancer, claiming that it is not a true reflection of who he is.

The University of Queensland has started showing off the plans for its new Sunshine Coast campus set to open at Petrie in February 2020.

The university has been taking 3D viewers to year 12 students in the region who it hopes will help fill the 1200 spots that will be available when the campus opens.

With most students currently facing a three hour round trip to commute to Brisbane universities, the campus is hoping to capture prospective students who are currently electing to attend smaller universities closer to home.

The ACCC has reported that Australians lost $489Mn to scammers last year, a 44% jump from 2017.

The regulator pointed out a 900% increase in Australian Tax Office impersonation scams and $60Mn of losses to dating and romance scams as particularly worrying.

But deputy chair of the ACCC Delia Rickard warns that this may just be the tip of the iceberg, saying that not everyone who suffers a loss would have reported it to a government agency.

Astronomers from WA’s Curtin University have witnessed a black hole spewing jets of plasma into space as it pulled apart a nearby star.

Professor James Miller-Jones noted the activity was unusual, as typically gas pulled from a nearby star is shot into space up and down the spinning axis of the black hole.

Indonesia's President has decided to relocate the country’s capital out of Java to an undetermined location.

President Joko Widodo is the first to seriously consider the move, although the idea has been around since Former President Sukarno was in office.

Whilst a new location is yet to be determined, Indonesia’s Planning Minister has confirmed the administration is looking towards the eastern side of the country.