Studies have shown adults on the Autism Spectrum have been prescribed mental health medication without sufficient diagnosis to do so.

Dr Rachael Cvejic from University of NSW Medicine’s School of Psychiatry stated the drugs have been prescribed to support behavioural problems, such as aggression.

Dr Cvejic suggested clinicians and medical students should be properly trained to meet the needs of individuals on the spectrum to ensure accurate psychiatric diagnosis.

In an Australian first, the Brisbane Tool Library, operating out of the State Library of Queensland, will allow members to borrow items like lawnmowers, power tools and kitchen appliances.

Many of the items have been donated by downsizing baby boomers, with the project’s aim to share resources and extend the life of products that would normally end up in a landfill.

Volunteer Sabrina Chakori said libraries need to reinvent themselves, as people aren’t borrowing books as much as they used too.

Federal Greens Leader, Richard Di Natale has called on fellow party member, NSW State MP Jeremy Buckingham to step aside, after allegations of inappropriate behaviour towards women.

On Tuesday, Greens NSW MP Jenny Leong said that Mr Buckingham’s behaviour and actions had had a lasting effect on female members of the party and volunteers.

Mr Buckingham denied Ms Leong’s allegations and said an independent investigation conducted earlier this year had already cleared him of misconduct.

Reports of hate crimes have spiked by nearly 17% during President Trump’s first year in office, the FBI has revealed.

The new data shows 7,175 hate crimes were reported to the federal agency in 2017, compared to 6,121 such crimes reported in 2016.

The majority of reported hate crimes in 2017 included bias against someone’s race, ethnicity or ancestry, with anti-Semitic crimes alone raising 37%.

Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court has undermined the attempt of the President to dissolve parliament amidst political crisis in the island nation.

President Maithipala Sirisena shocked the nation by sacking parliament and calling for snap elections on Friday.

This has followed Mr Sirisena’s replacement of the Sri Lankan Prime Minister two weeks prior, in an act many are describing as unconstitutional.

CNN has filed a lawsuit against President Trump and some of his aides, following the suspension of their journalist Jim Acosta’s press pass to the White House, after Acosta was involved in a verbal exchange with the President in a press conference.

The lawsuit alleges that Acosta and CNN’s first and fifth amendment has been violated by the ban, and seeks to restore Acosta’s access to the White House.

After months of negotiations, a draft text of the Brexit agreement has been agreed upon by UK and EU officials.

Intense discussions this week have led to the agreement of the draft, comprising a 500-page withdrawal plan with a statement about what the UK and EU’s future relationship will look like.  

While both sides are pleased with the draft so far, both the cabinet and Parliament are yet to agree to the plans.

The world’s largest humpback whale population is booming thanks to the Kimberley Region in Western Australia.

The success of Western Australia’s humpback whales appears to be a combination of good feeding grounds in Antarctica, coupled with a lack of natural predators in the Kimberley’s calving grounds.

It has been estimated the whale population is increasing at around 10 per cent per year, with anywhere from 35 to 45 000 currently on the west coast.