The Queensland Government has suspended the Great Barrier Reef’s 60-year shark control program after an Administrative Appeals Tribunal ruled sharks found on drumlines must be released.

The Tribunal imposed new permit conditions on fisheries, meaning sharks found on drumlines can only euthanised on animal welfare grounds, and all bull and white shark will have to be tagged before release.

220 workers are set to lose their jobs after manufacturer Kimberly-Clark Australia announced it will close their Sydney Huggies Nappy factory in July.

The company said they will move production of Huggies nappies from their Ingleburn Mill factory to Asia to enable faster access to new research and advancements in nappies and pants.

The CFMEU’s Manufacturing Union is appealing to the Federal Government to keep the site open, and said in a statement the site is still profitable.

Relief organisations have launched a vaccination campaign in Mozambique following a cyclone which sparked an outbreak of cholera.

International relief agencies and the health ministry launched the campaign in the central city of Beira to vaccinate more than 900 000 people against the disease which has killed two people and infected over 1700.

Cyclone Idai hit the coast of Mozambique on the 15th of March, with 598 in the country killed as a result as of Wednesday.

A German charity rescue ship has picked up 64 migrants stranded off the coast from Libya.

The migrants, who were trying to cross the Mediterranean and enter Europe in a rubber dinghy, were picked up by the Sea-Watch rescue ship after The Watch the Med Association received a call for help on Wednesday.

Watch the Med said that the Libyan coast guard was unreachable and would not answer their calls, with charities frequently accusing Libyan authorities of failing to rescue migrants.

Labor leader Bill Shorten is promising bigger tax cuts for those earning less than $40,000 a year, adding that his party will add billions in health spending if they win the May election.

Mr Shorten will use his budget reply speech on Thursday night to lay the foundation for an election campaign fought on fairness and Medicare.

Labor has already promised to match the government's plan to provide taxpayers earning up to $125,000 with an offset worth up to $1080 per week.

Sick Queenslanders will find it easier to gain access to medicinal cannabis after the government dismissed state-based approvals.

According to Health Minister Steven Miles, the law aims to streamline the prescription process, enabling patients to acquire their treatment sooner.

He added that medicinal cannabis will now be treated like any other prescription drug.

Britain’s parliament has approved legislation that forces Prime Minister Theresa May to try and further delay Brexit to avoid leaving the EU without a deal on April 12.

Opposition leader, Jeremy Corbyn, criticised May’s efforts, saying that the Prime Minister had not done enough in negotiations aimed at breaking the deadlock over Britain’s exit.

The two party leaders met on Wednesday to try and come up with a solution, of which Mr Corbyn said the meeting was “useful but inconclusive.”

Researchers have said that health damage caused by air pollution can reduce the average life expectancy of a child born today by 20 months.

The Annual State of Global Air Report, published by US-based non-profit research group Health Effects Institute, found that air pollution is now the fifth-leading cause of death, killing more people annually than car accidents and malaria.

Health Effects Institute president, Dan Greenbaum said that in much of the world, “breathing in an average city is the health equivalent to being a heavy smoker.”