Bill Shorten has announced a new $115 million pledge to Indigenous health that focuses on preventing youth suicide as he campaigns in the Northern Territory today.

Mr Shorten said the Indigenous health package, which would direct almost $30 million to Indigenous youth mental health and suicide prevention, ensures First Australians have ‘the fundamental right to grow old’ and said improving the health of First Australians is critical to reconciliation.

The ward of Chandler remains without a councillor following Adrian Schrinner’s appointment as Brisbane Lord Mayor last week.

The LNP has two months to select a new councillor for the ward, meaning a decision may not be made until after the federal election on the 18 May.

The wards of Coorparoo, McDowall and Walter Taylor have also seen changes with councillors resigning to contest the federal election.

A $36.3 million Toowong high school expansion has been moved a few metres to save a 300-year-old tree of Aboriginal significance that would have been destroyed.

The news of the revision for Queensland Academy for Science, Mathematics and Technology follows the beginning of construction for the three-storey centre on Wednesday.

Education Minister Grace Grace described the outcome as "a win" but Save Toowong Creek spokeswoman Julie Lloyd said the minister needed to look at the bigger picture.

Climate change activists have glued themselves to the roof of a train in London on the third day of protests in the city.

The Extinction Rebellion group organised protests which have resulted in the shutdown of major traffic routes and 300 arrests since Monday.

US scientists have conducted an experiment in restoring circulation and cellular activity in the brains of pigs which had died four hours earlier.

The study shows brain cell death could be halted and some connections could be restored, offering a new way of researching diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.

A new study has found that Aboriginal mothers are over-represented in New South Wales prisons and face unique challenges that could be passed down to their children.

The paper said Aboriginal mothers in NSW were characterised by significantly high levels of self-reported distress, poor mental health status and high levels of mental health diagnoses.

Documents have revealed that Adani did not accept expert advice provided by GeoScience Australia and CSIRO on how the environmental impact of its Carmichael coal mine could be limited.

Environment Minister Melissa Price said that Adani accepted the advice “in full”, but documents from GeoScience Australia showed the company did not accept key advice for its groundwater plan.

The outbreak of measles in Queensland has risen to 13 cases since the start of this year, with a warning issued for areas on Brisbane’s northside after a man who returned from Vietnam was diagnosed.

The man visited Toombul Shopping Centre’s Priceline Pharmacy from 1.30pm to 2.30pm on the 11th of April and on the 13th of April also visited Kedron Coles between 10am and 11am, and Wooloowin’s KC Dry Cleaners at some point during the same morning.

29 ongoing investigations into Gold Coast City Councillors are underway over allegations including conflicts of interest, breaches of trust and the accurate recording of registers of interest.

The Gold Coast Bulletin reported that nine complaints have been referred from the Office of the independent Assessor to other agencies and tribunals, while six matters have been referred back for the council’s own investigation.