NASA has awarded a $500,000 prize to New York-based design agency ‘AI spacefactory’ for taking out first prize in NASA’s 3D printed habitats challenge with its 15-foot tall prototype ‘MARSHA’, which could one day serve as home for astronauts on deep space exploration missions to Mars.

A High Court case will commence today to decide whether two men with indigenous heritage born overseas will be deported after both served a sentence over 12 months in Australia.

One man, Brendan Thoms, has lived in Australia since he was an infant and was born to an Indigenous Australian mother, the other moved to Australia at the age of five.

Lawyers for the two men write in submissions to the High Court saying Aboriginal people cannot be alien to Australia, regardless of citizenship.

In local news, Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner has announced that Brisbane City Council will spend up to $20 million each year from its “future fund” to buy bushland and create new parks.

The council’s City of Brisbane Investment Corporation began with $135 million in assets in 2008 and has now expanded to $273 million in a decade which provided $20 million in dividends to the council.

The Labour government is promising a $17 million dollar upgrade to Tennyson’s Pat Rafter Tennis Arena if it is elected.

An expansion to seat 7,500 people is planned, as shadow infrastructure minister Anthony Albanese says the tennis centre will struggle to grow due to the limitations of the facilities in place.

He noted events at the tennis centre inject $26 million into Queensland’s economy each year, highlighting the value of sports tourism.

Looking across the nation, female workers at central Queensland mine sites have been surveyed about their use of feminine hygiene products, being asked if they had used products including absorbent underpants, menstrual cups and a urination device known as a “she-wee”

Employer Anglo American says the survey is part of an audit of female equipment and facilities, but the miners’ union claims it was a move by the company to reduce toilet breaks.

In international news, a school shooting at a school near Columbine High School in Colorado has left eight students injured after being shot at and two schoolmates are in custody, according to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office.

Sheriff Tony Spurlock says the two suspects were students at a STEM school in Highlands Ranch, a charter school near Denver, and they got deep inside the school and engaged students in two separate locations.

Two Reuters journalists jailed in Myanmar have been freed after over 500 days in custody.

The journalists, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe OO, were jailed after being convicted of breaking the Official Secrets Act and sentenced to seven years in jail, which raised questions about Myanmar’s progress toward democracy, sparking an outcry from diplomats and human rights advocates.

Reuters’ editor-in-chief Stephen J Adler, released a statement saying the reporters have become symbols of the importance of press freedom around the world.

Bill Shorten has accused The Daily Telegraph of a “new low” for an article the newspaper has written about his mother.

Mr Shorten appeared on Q&A on Monday and spoke of his mother, Dr Ann Shorten, as his inspiration.

The publication accuses the Labor leader of omitting parts of his mother’s career while talking about the sacrifices she made to raise her children.

Mr Shorten wrote on twitter, “The Daily Telegraph has decided to use my mum’s life as a political attack on me, and on her memory”.