Documents obtained under Freedom of Information (FOI) show the former federal environment minister rejected advice from his own department that a $1.4 billion development on protected wetlands being proposed by a major Liberal Party donor was “unacceptable”.

One of Australia’s largest private diversified development companies, Walker Corporation, wants to build a precinct that includes 3,600 apartments, a hotel, convention centre and marina on a stretch of coastline south-east of Brisbane.

Former rugby league star, Chris Dawson, has been handed over to the police in Sydney where he will be charged for the murder of his wife Lyn Dawson in 1982.

Mr Dawson was in a relationship with one of his students Joanne Curtis, 16, at the time when Lyn, then aged 33, disappeared. Ms Curtis moved into the family home two days after Lyn went missing.

All eyes are on the 70-year-old former Newtown Jets star and high school teacher as he is expected to be charged with the murder of his wife.

Seven US military personnel are missing after two Marine Corps aircraft crashed in an unexplained mishap off Japan.

The Marine Corps say the aircraft launched from Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni and were conducting regularly scheduled training when the unexplained blunder took place.

The Marine Corps say Japanese search and rescue aircraft immediately responded to aid in recovery efforts. It is unclear if US military officials are assisting with the search.

An Indonesian city has launched a new campaign against the LGBT community, with locals viewing homosexuality as a "social sickness" which can be cleansed through religious exorcisms.  

There is the belief that homosexuality and transgenderism are caused by a mental health disorder triggered by supernatural and demonic influences. Locals believe exorcisms can be used as conversion therapy to rid the body of such influences.  

The Prime Minister has backed calls for an investigation into whether Queensland's land-clearing laws fuelled the state's bushfire crisis.

Scott Morrison has accused Queensland's Labor government of negligence, and has called the state's vegetation management laws 'outrageous'.

Morrison has backed calls by Northern Australia Minister Matt Canavan for an independent judicial inquiry into the two-week bushfire crisis and what role Queensland's land-clearing laws may have played in it.

An app developed by a University of Queensland student is assisting the visually impaired to navigate the stars and planets in our solar system.

Student Yuma Decaux fell in love with space at the age of seven; however, he lost his sight in 2009.

The app was created so other blind users who share the same interest and curiosity for space are able to learn more about the solar system.

Mr Decaux and his team won the Brisbane leg of the Nasa Space App Challenge with the app concept.

A rare native marsupial crucial to the survival of Queensland’s tropical ecosystem is facing a deadly decline, a new study reveals.

The five-year World Wildlife Fund (WWF)-Australia-funded project which tracked the northern bettong found a 70 per cent decline in the marsupial’s population in the past 30 years.

Predators such as poor land management, feral cats, and fire, are known threats to the approximately 2,500 northern bettongs left in the wild.

Government MPs have told Prime Minister Scott Morrison to change electoral laws and force Australians to show identification before voting in federal elections.

Recommendations from Coalition members of a parliamentary committee would also make it harder for minor parties to register and clamp down on cyber security risks.

Labor has opposed the idea and attacked it as a vehicle for voter suppression, saying that it is a concerning attack on the capacity of all Australians to participate in the electoral process.