The teacher’s union and the Education Department have joined together to trial a new workshop helping school leaders to respond to unreasonable behaviours after a chain of recent incidents of parents and students abusing teachers at Gold Coast schools.

Gold Coast Teachers Union Organiser Jodie Walsh said teachers are frequently facing abusive and swearing parents, and called out people phoning schools over bullying incidents and making threats as being bullies themselves.

Chicago has elected its first gay and first black female mayor, becoming the largest US city to elect a black woman in the position.

Lori Lightfoot, who has never before held office, won the election on Tuesday and said that the people of Chicago have “created a movement for change”.

The 56-year-old former federal prosecutor and practising lawyer won by a margin of 74 to 26 per cent.

Since 1837, Chicago has voted in only one black mayor and one female mayor.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has expelled two cabinet ministers he said undermined the ruling liberals.

Ms Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpot will no longer be allowed to sit in parliament as liberal legislators following demands for their removal as they were “undermining party unity”.

Mr Trudeau said that “civil wars within parties are incredibly damaging because they signal to Canadians that [politicians] care more about [themselves] than [they] do about [the people].”

A whistleblower has claimed that the New South Wales healthcare watchdog is failing to properly assess hundreds of patients' complaints because of "a dysfunctional workplace culture".

The Health Care Complaints Commission (HCCC) is an independent government body that assesses, investigates and prosecutes medical complaints throughout the state.

A West Australian MP has delivered a filibuster on surrogacy law reform stretching more than 12 hours to give MPs more time to consider a new surrogacy review only just published by the government.

Liberal Party MP Nick Goiran said he plans to continue the filibuster so MPs can read the report before a proposed bill comes to a vote that would allow single men and same sex couples to access altruistic surrogacy arrangements.

A Brisbane man who was jailed in Egypt for over a year without charge has been released and is on his way back to Australia.

Hazem Hamouda, a 55-year-old Australian citizen, was detained shortly after landing at Cairo International Airport on the 25th of January 2018 in what was meant to be a short holiday with his children.

The Queensland Parliament has passed new legislation dubbed “lemon laws” making it easier for vehicle owners to make claims on faulty vehicles.

The law has raised the Queensland Civil and Administrative Tribunal’s previous jurisdictional limit from $25,000 so that the Tribunal can now hear claims for up to $100,000 on new and used cars, motorbikes, motor homes and caravans.