Australians have until the end of the week to make sure they are enrolled and up to date on the electoral roll.

The Australian Electoral Commission says about half a million Australians are missing from the roll and expect several hundred thousand more to be updating their details before rolls close.

They warn that you may be excluded from voting and potentially face fines for failing to enroll or for not updating crucial information like your address.

The Sudanese are celebrating the end of President Omar al-Bashir’s 30-year dictatorship by singing and dancing to loud music well into the early hours of the morning.

Until last week, residents required a permit to play loud music late at night, but the tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered in front of the military headquarters aren’t planning on leaving anytime soon.

The international crowd funding service GoFundMe has formally announced a ban on anti-vaxxers from their platform.
 

In response to reports that one campaigner had gathered nearly £60,000 in donations, the company decided that anti-vax content violates their misinformation terms of service.
 

A GoFundMe spokesman says they are currently conducting a “thorough review” of any campaigns currently underway and will remove any that violate the terms.

Brisbane hospitals are dealing with an escalating beds crisis, with more than 500 ambulance patients left on stretchers in hallways last month.

Under the rapid offload policy, 524 patients were offloaded at four Metro South emergency facilities, including Logan Hospital.

These reports come in wake of last week’s standoff between Logan E.D nurses and paramedics over rapid offloads, which allow paramedics to park patients on temporary trolleys, while they await an Emergency bed and get back on the road.

The Logan Village Police Beat has been assigned huge upgrades for later this year, as it will turn into a police station to service the Yarrabilba and Logan Village area.

The new police station was a Palaszczuk government promise at the 2017 state election and is expected to cost over $550,000. The upgrade was deemed necessary due to infrastructure development and population growth in surrounding areas.

Work on upgrading the building into a police station is expected to begin in three weeks and continue for 12 weeks.

Residents in WA are being warned that the cost of beer is set to spike next year, with the implementation of the state’s container refund scheme.   

As of March next year, drinkers in WA will be able to cash in their used bottles and cans for a 10c refund.

The state government has allocated $4 million to implement the scheme, with more details to come in the coming months.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Opposition Leader Bill Shorten have officially locked in the 29th of April as the date of the Federal Election debate.

Set to be held in Perth, the debate will cover key election issues including taxes, health care and employment.

Morrison is putting on a face of confidence, telling reporters the debate will provide a great opportunity to demonstrate what he believes is the very clear choice at this election.

Thousands of people took to the streets of London on Monday morning in the midst of a week-long protest, blockading some of the UK capital’s busiest bridges and roads, to raise the alarm over a mounting climate crisis.

A group of demonstrators with trees, plants and solar panels in tow barricaded Waterloo Bridge, one of five locations being targeted by environmental campaigners in the city as part of the protest.

Former Volkswagen chief executive Martin Winterkorn has been charged with fraud over illegal diesel emissions.

German prosecutors alleged that Winterkorn was aware that the emissions data was being manipulated as early as 2014, but did not inform authorities or customers. The following year, Volkswagen admitted to using software that masked the toxicity of the diesel emissions.   

36 people remain under investigation in relation to the scandal.