Queensland activists and kennel owners are at odds, due to weak puppy farm laws and applications for breeding facility expansions.

There are no laws restricting the number of breeding dogs a single facility may house in Queensland.

The point of contention has arisen thanks to Diamond Valley Kennels application to the Sunshine Coast Council for a new facility in Landsborough to have 100 breeding kennels.

Owner, Lisa Howlett says her expansion plans are in response to the "huge demand" for designer breeds, but activists disagree.

Stem cell scientists from the University of Queensland are using technology to fix shortages in avocados.

According to Professor Neena Mitter, she and the university are using stem cell multiplication technology to reduce the time avocado trees grow, which can be from ten years to less than three years.

Professor Mitter says the “key message” of the project is “sustainability… and [creating] a sustainable production”.

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After Friday’s terror attacks in Christchurch New Zealand there has been an outpour of support for Muslim communities worldwide alongside the victims of the tragedy.

The response in New Zealand alone has raised thousands of dollars in crowd-funding, halal donations to communities and many citizens have offered to accompany local Muslims who are afraid for their own safety.  

The attack has killed 50 people at two mosques and received an outpouring of messages, tributes and offerings at the mosques in New Zealand alongside tributes worldwide.

A special Rohingya Elephant Tusk Force - pun intended - has been set-up by the United Nations Human Rights Council and International Union for Conservation of Nature in Bangladesh to keep refugees safe from deadly elephants.

14 Rohingya been killed and several others injured by Asian elephants living in Southern Bangladesh when the animals migrate eastwards once a year, passing through the world’s largest refugee camp in the forest that straddles the border with Myanmar.

The Western Australian Government has introduced a grant in hopes to connect up to 50 farms within a 100km radius of Albany.

Last year, farmers from Albany struck up a private partnership with a telecommunications company to the NBN fibre optic network. The pilot of this $277 500 grant aims to use the new infrastructure to connect farms further away by developing and using 4G technology.

The producers behind mindfulness app Smiling Mind have collaborated with women from Central Australia's NPY Women's Council, to create and record meditations in Kriol, Ngaanyatjarra and Pitjantjatjara languages.

The project’s aim is to help minimise the amount of mental health and trauma issues in Aboriginal communities particularly among young people.

The chief executive of Smiling Mind, Addie Wootten, is excited to work with the women in a culturally appropriate way and has been in touch with other communities to do something similar.

According to a Brisbane researcher, sleep deprivation is turning people into zombies as a result of an increasingly stressed and technological lifestyle.

Queensland biologist Dr Bruno van Swinderen says that without the REM or “dream sleep” we need, we’re becoming emotionless, just like zombies are.

Swinderen says one of the main culprits of the issue includes stress and screen exposure, and is recommending that our brains need to “go offline” from these technological connections and .redcucw our hectic lifestyles

The 17-year-old teenager who smashed on egg on Queensland Senator Fraser Anning’s head at a Melbourne press conference on Saturday has spoken of being “tackled by 30 bogans.”

Footage of the incident went viral on social media over the weekend, and showed the teen, dubbed as “Egg Boy”, pulling out his phone to record the ‘cracking’ before being punched by Senator Anning and tackled to the ground and restrained in a chokehold.