India’s Supreme Court has ruled Aadhaar, the world’s biggest biometric identity database, does not breach citizen’s privacy.

Indian residents are unable to receive food rations without registering for the system, which requires mandatory iris and fingerprint scans.

Lawyer Shyam Divan said Aadhaar will enable the state to profile citizens, track their movements, assess their habits, and influence their political behaviour.

Over 105 non-for-profit organisations in Queensland have benefited from newly created shade structures as part of the 2018 SunSmart Shade Creation Initiative.

Schools, childcare centres, sporting and community clubs are among those who cater to children, allowing them to be eligible for the government scheme.

With more than 3,600 Queenslanders diagnosed with a melanoma annually, Cancer Council Queensland believes this initiative is vital for the state.

From 2016-2017, Queensland had the highest spend nationally on non-primary health care like natural medicines and physiotherapists, according to new data from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

On average, our individual health costs the federal government just over $7000 per year, the third highest in the country.

Queensland also saw the most government money spent on research, ahead of New South Wales and Victoria who both had declines.

A bushfire threat in far north Western Australia has been downgraded overnight.

The emergency warning for the Wyndham-East Kimberley Shire has been lowered to a ‘watch and act’ alert.

However, the bushfire which started in the Northern Territory’s Keep River National Park, is still continuing and firefighters have warned those in the area of a 'possible threat to lives and homes'. 

Over 40,000 Subaru Liberty and Outback vehicles have been recalled nationally over potential brake issues.

This national recall for these models from 2010-2014 has been issued by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission.

Affected owners will be contacted by mail and encouraged to return their vehicles to their local Subaru dealer,  otherwise they should visit the Subaru website.

A Swedish court has found the man who prompted the cancellation of this year’s Nobel Literature Prize guilty of rape charges.

72 yr old Jean Claude Arnault pleaded not guilty, but was sentenced to two years in jail.  

Arnault was previously known for violating century old Nobel prize rules and leaking the names of Nobel Laureates.

The United Nations Relief and Works Agency have withdrawn foreign workers from Gaza “following a series of worrying security incidents” due to protests over UN job cuts.

The cuts follow the United States’ announcement that all funding will be cut from the UNRWA, and were mostly in the mental health services sector.

Protestors were dissatisfied with the job cuts and have appealed to international donors for funding.

A Right to Information request revealed the Commonwealth Bank pays the government $400,000 dollars every year to encourage kids to join their Dollarmites program.

After rejecting the request twice earlier this year, the Queensland Government was forced to reveal the sum as part of the Royal Commission into banking.

Financial author Scott Pape criticised the government and the Commonwealth bank for targeting children and placing them into a ‘marketing database’.