A Northern Territory parliamentarian has made a bid to honor his electorate’s Indigenous heritage by renaming it.

If successful, Scott McConnell would rename the Stuart electorate as Gwoya, in honor of Gwoya Tjungurrayi, an Aboriginal elder and boomerang salesman that survived the 1928 Coniston massacre.

Mr Tjungurrayi’s likeness has previously been immortalized on the $2 coin, but many hope the name change will bring greater recognition to the massacre, and its survivors.   

The Federal Government has announced that medicines made to treat cancer, Parkinson’s and motor neuron disease will be subsidized, and placed on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.

It will cost the government $19 million to list the medicines on the PBS, but the savings to patients are well worth the cost, with some treatments reduced from an annual cost of up to $300,000 down to just $41 per script.

New Zealand police investigating online leads as a follow-up to Friday’s Christchurch terror attacks have been met with some resistance.

The founder of an American site asked to preserve the emails and IP addresses of users posting about the attacks reportedly labeled the request a ‘joke’, calling New Zealand an ‘irrelevant island nation’.  

Investigators are continuing to examine Brenton Tarrant’s online presence, in the hopes of gathering evidence as well as preventing future attacks.

British Prime Minister Theresa May has had her hopes of getting her Brexit deal passed before the March 29th deadline dashed.

The Speaker of the UK Parliament John Bercow announced that he would not allow a third vote on May’s Brexit deal unless it undergoes substantial change, citing parliamentary rules dating back to 1604.

The ruling all but confirms that May will have to seek an extension to the deal as any major change would have to gain approval from the EU before being tabled in British Parliament.

King’s College at the University of Queensland has announced that it will be admitting women to the college for the first time in 107 years.

Starting in 2020, King’s will open its doors to women to help cope with falling college admissions.

The move is likely to be met with some resistance given the college’s history of hazing and sexual assault scandals.

An inquiry by the Senate has called for the $444 million awarded to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation to be returned.

The money was awarded to the foundation by Malcolm Turnbull in the 2018 May Federal budget without a tender process.

The Senate’s report, tabled today, found that the money in question was almost twice the size of any other Government grant in 2018, and that the foundation was only expecting a $5 million public investment.

It is unclear how much of the $444 million remains.

Hobart’s 'Taste of Tasmania' festival will receive significant funding cuts after the Hobart City Council unanimously voted to reduce their financial commitment over the next three years.

The 2018-19 event injected $46.9 million into the Tasmanian economy, with Hobart alone receiving $26.8 million dollars.

The Hobart City Council has asked the State Government to foot the rest of the bill, which is expected to fall between $250,000-$500,000.

The Menzies School of Health Research are utilizing a unique strain of Hep B infecting Aboriginal Australians in the Northern Territory to track the movements of ancient populations.

The geographic distribution of the virus in Australia has allowed researchers to research when it first arrived in the country, and its subsequent transmission routes.

Anywhere between 10 and 20 percent of the Aboriginal population in the Northern Territory carry the virus, which has been linked to liver failure.

Over 1000 people are feared dead in Mozambique after Cyclone Idai hit the country four days ago.

President Filipe Nyusi says entire villages have been submerged, calling it a real disaster of great proportions.

The Red Cross reports as much as 90 per cent of the port city Beira has been damaged or destroyed by strong winds and heavy rains.