Popular fish species on the Great Barrier Reef have shown signs of microplastics and other man-made plastics within their gut.

The study from the Australian Institute of Marine Science in Townsville has found this to be the first study of wild-caught commercial fish with the presence of micro-debris within a World Heritage Area.

Researches are currently unclear whether sources of the micro fibre could be from domestic, land-based or shipping-based sewage discharges, or other international sources.

Climate change experts have predicted the hole in the Earth’s ozone layer will fully heal within 50 years, a UN report has revealed.

Scientists first discovered damage to the ozone layer in the 1980s, identifying chloroflourocarbons, or CFCs, as the main contributor, previously common in refrigerators, aerosol cans and dry cleaning chemicals.

Banned globally under the Montreal Protocol of 1987, a decline of CFCs in the atmosphere means that the Earth’s ozone layer is expected to fully recover some time in the 2060s.

France’s intelligence agency has arrested six people on Tuesday as part of an ongoing investigation into a suspected attack against President Emmanuel Macron.

The far right group, consisting of five men and a woman between the ages of 22 and 62, were arrested across three separate regions of the country.

A judicial source claims the plot was created as an imprecise and loosely formed plan for violent action against the President of the Republic.

Electrical engineers who were forced to work as taxi drivers comprise only a small portion of the many immigrants and refugees who struggle to have their professional skills recognised in Queensland.

A Deloitte Access Economics report has revealed 49 per cent of the 80 000 qualified immigrants and refugees who had arrived in Queensland over the past decade, were not fully utilising the skills and experience they have gained before arriving.

The My Health Record Opt-out helpline is back up and running following a system crash that occurred when the line was inundated with Australians trying to opt-out before the deadline.

A spokeswoman for Health Minister Greg Hunt has defended the crash of the telephone opt-out service, stating that it was due to a technical issue as opposed to an influx of calls.

17 million Australians will be automatically enrolled in the My Health Record despite ongoing privacy concerns if they do not opt out by next Thursday.

An ongoing inquest into the death of an Afghan man at the Yongah Hill immigration detention centre has revealed he missed dispensing rounds for his epilepsy medication before his death.

Twenty-six-year-old Mohammad Najafi died following a seizure he had at the facility in 2015 due to missing some of these rounds as a result of his irregular sleeping hours.

Brisbane’s City Cat fleet is getting a new addition, with a $3.7 million, double-decker, high-speed catamaran, are set to be delivered in 2019.

The “Super Cat” will have an upper deck of 16 seats, while the inside will have tables and lounges, USB charging ports and larger windows.

Deputy Mayor Adam Schrinner likened the new vessel to London’s double-decker buses, saying this heralded a new generation of City Cats.

A rise in mental health illness and suicide has been found among young Australians transitioning out of the Australian Defence Force early on in their career.

The study being undertaken at the National Centre of Excellence in Youth Mental Health and Phoenix Australia - Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health, found that depression, panic attacks, suicidality and alcohol-use disorders are likely to happen to those individuals leaving the force less than four years into their service.