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.

Queensland Health authorities are putting out yet another call for people to get their measles shots, with 12 cases confirmed in Queensland alone this year.

Half of this year’s cases have been attributed to overseas travel, with Queenslanders becoming exposed overseas and bringing the disease home with them. The remainder are believed to have contracted the disease from another infectious person in the state.

Two new electric scooter companies may be hopeful of replacing Lime’s prime position on Brisbane’s streets, after Adelaide City Council evicted Lime in favour of scooter companies Beam and RIDE.

After multiple serious injuries were reported, linking Brisbane riders flying overhead due to software glitches – the Lime Scooter company is already being intensely scrutinised.

With seven in ten drink bottles to be made from 100 percent recycled materials by the end of 2019, beverage giant Coca-Cola is set to help the environment by doubling the amount of recycled plastic it uses across its entire beverage arm.

All small packages 600ml and under will be made entirely from recycled plastic, reducing the amount of new plastic by an estimated 10,000 tonnes each year from 2020.

Two brothers in the United States have been sentenced after pleading guilty to using their fine chocolate business to traffic cocaine into Australia.

Nathan and Andrew Dulley agreed to traffic 150 kilograms of cocaine by partnering with Owen Hanson, the kingpin of the O.D.O.G drug-trafficking, money laundering and illegal gambling syndicate.  

The brothers were sentenced to 33 months in prison and 25 months respectively.

A catastrophic fire has engulfed the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris, already claiming the spire and stained glass rose windows of the 850 year old building.

It is unclear what started the blaze, but the Paris fire brigade says the fire is “potentially linked” to a renovation project on the cathedral’s spire.

First responders are trying desperately to salvage priceless art from within and a spokesman for Notre Dame reports that the entire wooden frame of the structure will likely be destroyed before the fire is under control.