The latest NAPLAN results show a ‘significant’ improvement for Indigenous students and students from multicultural backgrounds in reading, writing and numeracy.

Results are proving Indigenous students are improving at a faster rate. Among year three Indigenous students, results improved by 7.4 per cent between 2008 and 2018, compared to 4.2 per cent for non-Indigenous students.

A bomb attack in central India has killed five people, including a local politician from the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.

Bhima Mandavi was a state legislator from the Chhattisgarh state legislative assembly and was returning from an election rally when he and his security personnel were attacked in the Dantewada district of the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh.

Police say it is suspected the attack was made by Maoist rebels.

Liberal senator Ian Macdonald has been asked to apologise for linking Labor Senator Penny Wong to Chinese billionaire Huang Xiangmo during Senate Estimates on Tuesday.

Senator Macdonald mixed up the names Wong and Huang and asked if the Labor senator was related.

Labor leader Bill Shorten sent out a statement to Chinese media following the exchange calling Senator Macdonald’s comment as an, “Asian slur”.

Australia’s tyre waste and fuel security problems could soon be behind us with a Gladstone oil refinery saying they have found a solution.

Southern Oil Refineries has successfully conducted large scale pilot tests on its biodiesel made from old tyres says manager Ben Tabulo.

"[We've proven] renewable diesel can work in Australia's engines and does have the same efficiency on the road," he says.

"The renewable diesel … has been refined from post-consumer waste, mainly mixed tyre crude oil and refined into 100 per cent drop-in diesel.

New figures from the Domestic and Family Violence Death Review and Advisory Board have found 120 suicides related to domestic violence in the last three years, compared to 71 homicides in the same period.

The suicide figure includes five children aged between 10 and 17 years old, and two women, who were in women’s shelters.

South-East Queensland temperatures are set to be more than five degrees above the April average on Tuesday, as hot Autumn weather approaches.

Brisbane was predicted to reach 31 on Tuesday, significantly higher than its average of 27.1.

Weatherzone meteorologist, Graeme Brittain, says, Tuesday would be the peak of the warm spell.

The Stonehenge World Heritage Site, which houses well-known prehistoric monuments, is under threat with the British Government wanting to plunge a two kilometre, $3 billion tunnel underneath it.

The monoliths are right next to the A303 Highway, which connects London with south-west England, and the proposal by Highways England to replace the iconic monuments with a tunnel puts archaeologists in a position that goes against the Stonehenge’s current custodians, English Heritage.

In local news, owners of new developments in inner south suburbs will not be able to obtain a residential parking permit under new laws.

West End, Highgate Hill, and Taringa are now included in the laws, which affect owners of apartments in properties which lodged development applications on or after the 18th of March this year.

As a result, the laws will take some time to take effect, as Greens councillor Jonathan Sri says he has been pushing to have the ban introduced for three years.

Brisbane’s new lord mayor, Adrian Schrinner, is at the receiving end of public criticism regarding the Mt
Coot-tha zipline project, after saying he would happily pay $100 to ride it.

The community group, Mt Coot-tha Protection Alliance, launched a court appeal for Councillor Schrinner to review the project, that began under former lord mayor Graham Quirk and stirred controversy over the use of public land for private enterprise, as well as its ecological impact.