A New Zealand statue of Captain Cook, that overlooks a beach where he first arrived in the country, is set to be taken down, following a growing debate on its depiction of colonial history.

The statue was unveiled in 1969 and has received opposition and vandalism ever since; but it was attacks in 2016 that reignited debate about its place in the region’s history.

The architect of the Paris climate accord says that Scott Morrison’s inactive stance on climate change is “anti science”, and risks Australia’s international reputation.

These comments follow a report released showing that climate pollution has risen 1.3% in the year to March, the highest quarterly increase in eight years.

If our climate policies don’t change soon, Australia will soon become one of the least eco-friendly  countries in the world.

Australia’s largest honey producer has been accused of almost a fifth of their honey being fake or altered.

Fairfax media revealed that there was adulteration in around 18% of honey samples bought in supermarkets and markets.

This follows outrage over the contamination of imported honey brands like Capilano, and Aldi and IGA private brands.

There has been mass protest in Brisbane, as people march against the newly proposed changes to Queensland’s abortion laws.

The proposed changes would be among the most extreme in the world, with unrestricted abortions after 22 weeks.

However parliament has quickly rebutted this, saying it is merely proposals and for an abortion to occur after 22 weeks there would have to be extreme and validated mitigating circumstances.

Iconic Brisbane landmark, the XXXX Brewery could be making up to 25 full time staff redundant.

This new round of layoffs are said to across a range of roles within the brewery and to equate to close to a sixth of the present workforce

According to a lion Spokesperson, the layoffs were made to remain competitive within the market due to a reduction of volume within the companies brewery network as well as a decline in the mainstream beer market in favor of craft beers.

A QLD hair loss clinic has been forced to apologise to a man after refusing to treat him due to his being HIV positive.

He was told that the treatment could not be performed due to risk of needle stick injury, however the client believed this to be discrimination.

The resolution involved the clinic undergoing intensive training on blood borne diseases, writing an apology to the client and giving him financial compensation.

nstagram was briefly down for thousands of users worldwide, and naturally everyone took to Twitter to vent their frustrations with the hashtag #instagramdown.

The users of Instagram and Facebook were most affected across Europe, Australia and some parts of Asia.

Instagram has more than 1 billion active monthly users, many of whom missed out on their insta-fix this week