West End Local councillor is calling for Deputy Premier and Member for South Brisbane Jackie Trad to reign in a huge West End unit project, fearing it will damage the suburb’s livability.

It is unclear if Ms Trad or State Development Minister Cameron Dick have the power to prevent the four 12-storey residential development, which was approved on Friday by the Council.

Queensland police are pushing for all new cars to come fitted with the ability for officers to remotely apply the breaks or shut down engines.

Queensland Police Commissioner Ian Stewart says the ability would aid law enforcement, and has the support of the Queensland Police Union who has lobbied for six years on implementing the changes.

Police Minister Mark Ryan says the question of whether to mandate remote vehicle immobilisers has been placed on the agenda for next week's meeting of national Police Ministers.

A not-for-profit company working to improve the health of the Great Barrier Reef has been found to have edited a scientific report critical of its methods, the ABC reports.

The Reef and Rainforest Research Centre, which operates under a 4 million dollar government contract, was tasked with destroying the crown-of-thorns starfish.

The original report by Dr Udo Engelhardt criticised poor management at the NGO, criticisms which were removed from the version published online.

A Senate Committee has recommended Australians be given another year to opt out of three Federal Government's My Health Record Program.

The program has sparked criticism by privacy advocates as it would allow doctors to view the entirety of a patient's healthcare records, even if those records are irrelevant to the patients current matter.

The Health Minister Greg Hunt says the Government has no plans to extend the opt out deadline past November 15.

The United States and Great Britain have pulled out of a major economic forum in Saudi Arabia in response to the alleged murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Khashoggi, a journalist often critical of the Saudi Royal Family, was last seen entering their embassy in Turkey, and security footage since then has revealed black vans departing the building.

A spokesperson for the UK Government said Trade Secretary Liam Fox’s decision to decline the invitation was explicitly tied to events in Turkey.

Malaysia’s former Deputy Prime Minister has been arrested following an investigation into his suspected misappropriation of funds from a family-run charity foundation.

The Malaysian corruption watchdog says the former Deputy PM, Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, abused his power and his actions were a breach of trust.

Ahmad Zahid’s arrest follows a string of arrests since the election, including the ex-premier and his wife over more money scandals.

Activists in Austria are calling for a balcony in Vienna’s town hall to be destroyed as it was where Nazi Leader Adolf Hitler gave a speech in 1938.

The artists collective group ‘Memory Gaps’ have argued the balcony should be destroyed as part of the 80th anniversary of the ‘Anschluss’ or the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany.

Whilst the city authorities were caught off guard by the proposal, Vienna’s top cultural official Veronica Kaup-Hasler said she welcomed the debate into forgotten details of the cities history.