The University of Oxford has suspended new donations and sponsorships from Chinese telecoms giant Huawei.

The firm is facing accusations from the US and other countries that its equipment could be used for espionage.

Oxford says that it will continue with its existing research contracts where Huawei funding has been received or committed.

A Ghanaian undercover journalist, Ahmed Hussein-Suale,  has been shot dead after revealing rampant bribery within Ghana’s football leagues;  which resulted in a lifetime ban for the former head of Ghana’s Football Association.  

Ahmed was shot twice in the chest and neck by two unidentified men on motorbikes. 

His death comes after a Ghanaian politician called for retribution against him following his revelations of corruption in Ghana’s football leagues. 

A report commissioned by the ATO has found that wealthy people are using private trusts to funnel money and avoid paying tax of up to several billion dollars every year.

The report, by RMIT University said some wealthy Australians and high net wealth individuals were putting money into discretionary trusts to manipulate the tax system so they could pay less tax.

Law Professor John Glover, an author of the report, told  say that Australia is behind other countries when it comes to the regulation of trusts.

The Northern Basin Aboriginal Nations support Greens Senator Sarah Hanson-Young’s call for a royal commission into the Murray-Darling. 

The senator claims the fish massacre is just the latest example of mismanagement, and says she would move to establish an inquiry, which would compel testimony from ministers and bureaucrats. 

The Northern Basin Aboriginal Nations argue native title holders have been left out of important decision-making about the Darling River. 

A Brisbane doctor has been accused of using patients identities to write prescriptions for himself. 

The doctor, working out of a Chermside medical facility, has been charged with fraud, forgery and falsifying records.

The man is alleged to have filled the prescriptions on 17 separate occasions.

Queensland students going into their final year of high school will be the last graduating class to receive the 1-25 OP score. 

From next year, Queensland’s secondary school students will join the rest of the country in receiving Australian Tertiary Admissions Ranks.

The new ranking system will be a 100 point grade scale expressed on a scale of “30.00 or less” to 99.95 in increments of 0.05. 

Queensland has just broken the record for the most consecutive days above 40 degrees celsius within the state northern-west regions of Cloncurry and Camooweal.

The previous record holders was Birdsville, Queensland, in 2012 with 31 consecutive days.

However, due to a monsoon developing across the top of Australia, meteorologists forecast the record will continue to rise in upcoming weeks.

The 21.98 million dollar landscaping work at Brisbane’s Anzac Square is set to be completed by the end of January.

Finishing months behind schedule, poor weather forced council to delay work and consequently resulted in the park not being ready for memorial services in November, as was initially planned.

The project saw the planting of mature pines, removal of aged trees, and multiple upgrades to create a safer public space.