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.

The UN says more than 200 mass graves have been uncovered in Iraq, in areas previously controlled by the Islamic State.

The graves are yet to be properly excavated, due to booby traps but are thought to hold between six thousand to twelve thousand bodies.

Suki Nagra, the director of the UN’s Human Rights office in Iraq, said the sites need to be protected and treated as crime scenes until they can be dug up by properly trained forensic experts.

CSIRO researchers have released a statement saying the invasive African big-headed ant has been eradicated from World Heritage listed Lord Howe Island.

The team responsible for the eradication used around two hundred thousand lures to assess the insects’ presence and eradicate them.

Researcher and exotic ant specialist Dr Ben Hoffmann was part of the team responsible for the eradication and says the six year project was one of the most significant invasive ant eradications in the world.

Federal Government funding for the Gold Coast light rail project has decreased, according to Queensland Transport Minister Mark Bailey.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison announced $112 million in funding on Monday for stage 3A of the project, which will extend the light rail another 6.4 km from Broadbeach to Burleigh, as well as develop 8 new stations and upgrade pedestrian and cycling facilities.

With the total cost of stage three of the project currently estimated around $670 million, the federal contribution comprises only 16% of the project’s total cost.