The Australian Defence Force (ADF) owned HMAS Moreton barracks site in Bulimba has finally gone on the market.

In 2015, the federal government confirmed the ADF would sell most of the Bulimba site and in February 2017, Brisbane City Council formally adopted a master plan to allow developers to buy the site and build up to five storeys.

A Defence spokesperson said the 20-hectare waterfront development opportunity will deliver housing, waterfront access, and improved community amenity for the Bulimba and Morningside communities.

Plans for a solar farm just outside of Kingaroy in South East Queensland have been shot down by the South Burnett regional council, amid worries of wasting ‘Class A’ agricultural land.

Renewable energy company Terrain Solar have proposed an 80 hectare solar farm 3 kms outside urban development, predicted to generate over 100,000 megawatt hours each year, or enough to power over 15,000 Queensland homes.

The Australian Medical Association (AMA) said the Closing the Gap strategy has “all but unravelled”, insisting the policy needs to be rebuilt from the ground up.

AMA president, Tony Bartone, said Closing the Gap needs root-and-branch reform and for Aboriginal healthcare to be placed in Aboriginal hands.

The doctors’ body said the failure of the Closing the Gap Strategy demonstrates that “a stubborn form of institutional racism” still challenges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population health.

The family of Asia Bibi, a Christian woman who was cleared of Blasphemy in Pakistan, claim they are being hunted by extremists moving from "house to house" with their photographs.

Bibi spent eight years on death row, and since being acquitted three years ago in the country she has been offered asylum in Canada, Spain and France, with Germany and Italy also reportedly being in talks on the issue.

Facebook has been slammed for allowing a 16-year-old child bride in South Sudan to be auctioned off to the highest bidder on the social media platform.

It took Facebook just over two weeks to delete the post, despite the company repeatedly claiming to work around the clock to remove prohibited content.

Critics have called this a ‘barbaric use of technology’, likening it to ‘latter day slave markets’.

Opposition leader, Bill Shorten will formally adopt former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull’s National Energy Guarantee (NEG) as Labor policy.

Australian households will be offered federal rebates to install solar storage batteries under a federal Labor energy policy which will also direct funding towards solar, wind, and hydro projects.

Mr Shorten will promise massive spending on renewable energy projects, with the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) to have its funding topped up to $10 billion.

The New South Wales child protection agency has directed that children in its care maintain their connection with a group that a Supreme Court jury has branded a "socially harmful cult"

Links between the cult group Universal Medicine and the Family and Community Services office at Lismore in far northern NSW have been found prompting the Office of the Children's Guardian to issue an internal ban on referring children to the controversial occult healing group.

A remote Indigenous community about two hours drive from Rockhampton has introduced nightly curfews for youths, as they say they are running out of options to control youth crime.

The curfew in the central Queensland community of Woorabinda is from 8:30pm every night and is being enforced by groups of local volunteers.

Gold Coast based charity, Support the Girls Australia is helping single mothers living with their children in their cars by providing underwear, sanitary products, and toiletries.

Homeless families on the Gold Coast are on the rise, and many mothers are choosing the safety of their vehicle or a tent rather than a temporary shelter or living in an abusive relationship.