A business which didn’t offer jobs to 17 interns it hired through a government youth internship program has been asked to return $17, 000 of taxpayers money.

Jobs Department officials have confirmed the unnamed business was kicked out of the Prepare, Trial, Hire (PaTH) program late last year.

The program has been criticised by unions as a way for businesses to use cheap labour for work which can be done by paid casual workers.

Westpac will face class action in the Federal Court for allegedly granting home loans to people who could not afford to pay them back.

Maurice Blackburn lawyer Ben Salde says Westpac will be accused of breaching its obligations to protect customers from financial harm.

The class action, which may involve thousands of home loans issued after 2010, is the first against one of Australia’s big four banks since the banking royal commission delivered its report.

Burberry fashion house Burberry has removed a hoodie from its most recent collection following criticism that the luxury brand’s design, featuring a knot below the neck shaped like a noose, as insensitive.

Many spoke publicly, including model Liz Kennedy, about how this design has affected people with experiences of suicide, stating that “suicide is not fashion”.

A statue depicting the famous scene of a sailor kissing a woman in New York's Times Square as people celebrate the end of World War II has been spray painted ‘#MeToo’.

Police say the graffiti covers a part of the leg of the woman being kissed in Florida where the statue is on loan to the city.

The vandalism is believed to have been committed Monday, a day after the death of the sailor in the iconic photo, George Mendonsa, at the age of 95 who the photographer described was running down the street and grabbing any girl in sight.

The federal government is concerned that asylum seekers who leave Manus Island or Nauru for medical treatment may never go back, due to a legal loophole.

Attorney-General Christian Porter has blamed poor drafting of medical evacuation laws passed last week against the government's will for the loophole.

Labor has lost a vote in federal parliament over setting a minimum price for milk to help the struggling dairy industry.

Agriculture Minister David Littleproud has labelled the move as a political stunt, calling it a cruel hoax to dairy farmers.

Despite the loss, Labor is promising to investigate minimum prices for milk if the party wins the next federal election.

The Bureau of Meteorology says the chance of Tropical Cyclone Oma making landfall on the southern Queensland coast is decreasing.

The category-two system is currently 960 kilometres north-east of Brisbane and is still moving towards the city.

BOM forecaster Michael Knepp says there is still a lot of uncertainty about Oma’s movements, but the likely scenario is that it will stay off-shore during the weekend and may possibly move parallel to the coast to the north-east, bringing along gale-force winds.

Brisbane City Council’s plan to cut Lime scooter numbers down to 500 has sparked concerns from the people who collect and recharge Lime scooters each night.

Known as “Juicer’s”, the e-scooter collectors said the reduction of Lime scooters will hurt those working in the gig economy.

The council will also trial the introduction of a rival e-scooter company mid-year, a decision which has been criticised by companies who have not been included in the proposed trial.

A security bug is now allowing users to bypass new privacy controls introduced by Facebook-owned message service WhatsApp on iPhone devices this month.

This disclosure follows as messaging and other applications race to improve security and as Facebook addresses criticism for not safeguarding privacy.

A WhatsApp spokesperson said they are aware of the issue and that a fix should be available shortly.