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.

The crisis in Yemen continues to unfold with 85,000 children dead since 2015. According to Save the Children, they may have died from starvation or disease.

The estimate was based on data compiled by the United Nations, which has warned that up to 14 million people are at risk of famine in Yemen, where Saudi-backed forces are battling Iran-aligned Huthi rebels.

Save the Children director in Yemen, Tamer Kirolos, said for every child killed by bombs and bullets, dozens are starving from a preventable death.