Shark nets on Sunshine Coast beaches, from Rainbow Beach to Caloundra, will be removed today and tomorrow as rough weather approaches.

A Bureau of Meteorology spokesperson has said there is a strong wind warning for the Sunshine Coast over the weekend.

Shark control program manager Jeff Krause said the weather forecast will be observed over the next few days to decide when it will be safe to return the shark nets.

NASA has declared the Mars rover Opportunity dead after 15 years on the planet, and more than eight months after its final communication with Earth.

The space agency has tried to reconnect more than 1,000 times before finally giving up, having made “every reasonable engineering effort” to recover the longest-lasting lander.

Opportunity has been an icon in the field of planetary exploration, teaching NASA about Mars’ past as a wet, potentially habitable planet, and unveiling Martian landscapes.

Dolphin-hunting season is at its peak in Japan and Australian, and Japanese environmentalists have launched legal action in an attempt to end the internationally-condemned slaughters in Taiji.

Every year Japanese fishermen have permission to kill up to 20,000 dolphins and small whales as part of what they say are centuries-old traditions.

Australian environmental group Action for Dolphins has teamed up with a Japanese animal rights organisation, Life Investigation Agency, to challenge the legality of the killings.

Embattled Whitsundays council MP Jason Costigan has been banned from visiting schools in the region after a motion was passed by the Whitsundays council.

Whitsundays councillor Mike Brunker says he does not want Mr Costigan attending schools.

The move comes after harassment allegations were made against the member, allegations which he has repeatedly denied.

Students are more likely to rate male university teachers higher than their female counterparts in some areas of STEM and Business, according to Australia’s largest review of student experience surveys.

The study examined almost 525,000 individual student experience surveys from Sydney students from 2010 to 2016 across five faculties and found a male teacher from an English-speaking background was more than twice as likely to get a higher score on a student evaluation than a female teacher from a non-English speaking background.

Following the Minister for Housing and Public Works announcement yesterday to waive rents for flood affected public housing tenants, Tenants Queensland is calling on agents and owners in Townsville to treat private renters fairly.

Tenants Queensland (TQ) is urging estate real agents and owners in the private market to negotiate rent reductions with tenants living in flood affected rental properties and maintain usual rental costs for properties being offered on the market.

A Queensland woman claims she was shamed by airline staff over the clothing she wore on board a Jetstar flight last week.

The passenger was boarding a flight to the Gold Coast for a family medical emergency when she was humiliated by a staff member for wearing a black crop-top and three-quarter-length loose pants.

Jetstar confirmed they have apologised to the passenger and are investigating the incident.