A Queensland police officer has been stood down due to investigations into alleged fraud.

The officer has been removed from official duties for alleged fraud and for providing false information while in duty.

Queensland police says the investigation does not mean the claims are substantiated .

Victorian opposition leader Matthew Guy has reportedly spent millions of taxpayer money to confidentially settle a lawsuit over a botched planning decision.

Guy, a former planning minister, spent an estimated 2.5 million dollars to pay for the case where it was alleged he used his ministerial power to override a Bass Coast Council rezoning.

Guy was fearful he would lose his job if the lawsuit became public, despite repeated legal advice against it.

The NSW government will introduce new legislation to protect victims of domestic violence, introducing a new offence for strangulation.

If passed, this law will mean incidents involving strangulation will be easier to establish and will attract a maximum jail term of five years.

Indefinite apprehended violence orders and the increase of the default length of ADVO for adults from 12 months to two years are among other proposed changes.

Over $150 million dollars have been pledged by Germany and Norway to Africa’s Lake Chad Region, to aid the humanitarian crisis occurring due to violence, poverty and climate change.

These decisions were made at an international donor conference in Berlin yesterday, with promises made to stabilise the surrounding states of Niger, Nigeria, Chad and Cameroon.

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas spoke at this conference, stressing the importance of the Lake Region as an economic hub between North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa.

Google Earth satellite surveillance technology is being used to detect human rights abuses from space.

Organisations such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International are able to piece together evidence of atrocities in remote locations by comparing satellite imagery over time.

The images have been used to identify North Korean prison camps, Boko Haram attacks in Nigeria, mass graves in Northern Iraq, and recently, a widespread campaign of arson against Rohingya villages in Myanmar.

Right To Information documents have revealed high levels of violence occurring inside Queensland’s two youth detention centres.

Documents obtained by the Liberal National Party indicated over 1248 physical altercations were recorded between January and May in the Brisbane and Townsville centres.

These incidents include 48 assaults on staff by detainees, 75 instances of property damage and 17 attempted suicides.

If you’re struggling with mental health, please call Lifeline on 13 11 14.

Traces of toxic chemicals have been found in animals and plants in the coastal village of Wreck Bay in Jervis Territory.

The chemicals, believed to cause cancer, were found in a creek running through a small indigenous community in the area.

However, concerns from the Wreck Bay Community have fallen on deaf ears as ACT Health could not respond to their concerns due to lack of data.

New reports on Nauru’s detention centre have emerged detailing increasing levels of abuse, trauma, and desperation on the island.

The report revealed over 50 overseas medical requests have been actively denied by the Australian government.

Its release came as part of the demand for Australia's offshore detention policy to be discussed at the Pacific Islands Forum, asking for those on Nauru and Manus Island to be relocated.

Argentina’s president Mauricio Macri has told the country that it cannot keep spending more than they earn.

In response to the Argentine peso hitting an all time low, Macri said he will reinstate taxes on exports, and close or merge half of the nation’s ministries.

While Macri did not say which ministries would be closed, he assured the public the country’s budget would be balanced by next year.