Prime Minister Scott Morrison touched down on the edge of Kakadu National Park on Sunday where he offered a lifeline to the struggling Northern Territory township of Jabiru.

In Jabiru, Mr Morrison detailed the Coalition's election pledge to help rejuvenate the region, which included $70 million to upgrade roads to Kakadu tourist sites, $40 million to upgrade campground infrastructure and up to $60 million to support the development of an Indigenous-led Kakadu visitor centre in Jabiru.

The Australian government is facing criticism for its failure to act in the case of Saudi teenager Rahaf al-Qunan’s bid for asylum.

Human Rights Watch says Australia moved too slow in processing the 18 year olds request as her security situation in Thailand was considered precarious.

After receiving international media attention Miss al-Qunan has been relocated to Toronto, Canada, where her application process took one day to complete.

Pademelons and goannas are being hunted and killed with what is believed to be a crossbow at Mount Glorious, about 40 kilometres north-west of Brisbane.

This follows the deaths of at least five pademelons in the area, which were found with large holes through their bodies in the past month.

Mt Glorious resident Bethany Hope said the killings are "out of character" considering the community's affection for their wildlife.

An email from the Mt Glorious Community group ensures residents police and the RSPCA are on the case.

Queensland voters are questioning how politician Clive Palmer gained access to their contact information after receiving another wave of text messages this weekend.

The messages promoted Palmer’s upcoming Canberra comeback and did not have an option to opt-out.

The Spam Act prevents spam messages without prior consent but political parties are currently exempt.

50 people were injured and 4 found dead this weekend in the largest explosion Paris has seen in over a decade.

The blast gutted the bakery, overturned cars and caused 12 surrounding buildings to be evacuated pending further investigation.

While the blast appears to have been accidental, police say it is too early to identify the cause and are not ruling out terrorism.

All titles and honours will be stripped from Nobel prize winning scientist James Watson after he made ‘reprehensible’ comments linking race to intelligence.

Dr Watson, who helped discover DNA in 1953, told the Sunday Times he believes Africa is doomed to fail as its social policies are not adjusted to account for race.

Dr Watson’s New York laboratory has cut all ties and say they condemn the misuse of science to justify prejudice.

Rising temperatures and poor management are killing millions of fish in the Murray Darling River.

Local residents accuse the New South Wales government of deliberately draining the Menindee Lakes, leaving a 500km stretch of poorly flowing river.

Warmer weather affects these areas by causing blue green algae to bloom and remove oxygen from the water.

The federal government is announcing a 5 million dollar recovery package to alleviate the crisis.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has personally thanked former Prime Minister John Howard for his unexpected role in a domestic violence incident on the streets of Sydney last Wednesday.

79-year-old former PM was on his daily walk near his home on Sydney’s north shore at about 7.45am when he saw a couple fighting on the street.

The Daily Telegraph reported that Mr Howard called out to the couple in an attempt to stop the fight, before standing with the woman until police arrived.

The clean-up of West End’s contaminated Orleigh Park could see as much as 13,500 square metres of soil removed along with several trees, Brisbane City Council says.

Last year, tar was found to be present in the majority of the park and some surrounding streets, as the park previously housed a coal tar processing facility, which closed in the 1980s.

Council projected the total cost of the remediation works as just more than $15 million between 2018 and 2020, according to its 2018 budget.

Lime, the company behind Brisbane’s electric scooter craze has copped a warning to remove its scooters from the Gold Coast within two hours of their roll-out.

Lime scooters were placed on the footpaths of the Gold Coast on Friday, following a scooter trial that launched in Brisbane in November.