Recent sewage testing in regional Queensland has pointed towards an increase in the use of the drug ice despite state government programs to address the issue.

The National Wastewater Drug Monitoring Program today released a report that found Queensland’s methamphetamine consumption increased between April 2018 and August 2018, totalling more than 9.6 tonnes over the past year.

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has announced his second consecutive bid for US President, after losing the Democratic nomination to Hillary Clinton in 2016.

Sanders will enter the race as one of the front-runners, sporting a progressive policy agenda that includes expanding health care, broadening the social safety net and free higher education.

In a video announcing his run, Sanders set out plans to transform the US, while also labelling President Donald Trump as a pathological liar, a fraud, a racist, a sexist, and a xenophobe.

A British teenager who fled the UK to join ISIS in 2015 is set to be stripped of her UK citizenship after begging to return home.

19-year old Shamima Begum gave birth in a refugee camp in Syria on Sunday, and has since made international headlines after wishing to return home and voicing her support of Islamist violence.

Lawyer Mohammed Akunjee said in a statement on Twitter that her family were "very disappointed with the Home Office's intention to have an order made depriving Shamima of her citizenship."

Labor has proposed a new plan that would force banks and financial regulators to report every six months on their progress fixing cultural problems exposed by the royal commision.

Bill Shorten says only Labor can be trusted to clean up the banks, adding he would make banking execs front up to parliament and explain what they’re doing to clean up their act.

Experts are pleading with businesses to be vigilant in handling the threat of cyber crime following a breach of the Federal Parliaments computer network and a warning from one of Australia’s most senior military figures.

Security in Depth chief executive Michael Connory says on average, it takes companies 8 months to discover they’ve been hacked, and the most common method is through email.

The most common cyber attacks are in health and finance, which impacts organisations who lose the trust of their customers.

Queensland MP Bob Katter has recruited two union members against Labor in the federal election, seizing on a rupture over the Adani coal mine which has Opposition leader Bill shorten exposed.

Mr Katter believes the state Labor government is anti-coal mining, saying union members are unhappy because their money is going to Labor, and the Construction, Forestry, Maritime, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) is the biggest donor in Queensland.