American ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, has unexpectedly resigned from her role.

The Men With Heart photo exhibition opens today at Mawson Pavilion in Tasmania, which showcases healthy masculinity at the Tasmanian Men’s Gatherings. 

More than 1 000 people gathered outside the Opera House last night to protest the Everest horse race draw numbers being projected onto the sails of the building. 

Almost one-hundred covert cameras across Brisbane are working to catch residents illegally dumping, which can impose fines up to two-thousand-six-hundred dollars. 

A former serum laboratory in Morningside in South Brisbane, has been transformed into the largest charity kitchen in the southern hemisphere. 

An anti-vaxxer billboard displayed on a Brisbane road has been condemned by Queensland Health Minister Steven Miles.

Miles is investigating whether the Carseldine billboard can be removed, saying that is not free speech but fear speech.

An Ads Standards spokeswoman has revealed the body has received multiple calls objecting to the sign, but has no jurisdiction over such subject matter.

A 55-year-old Queensland man was bitten by a reef shark yesterday aboard his vessel at Swains Reef, north-east of Yeppoon, and was taken to hospital this morning after spending a night at sea.

The man mistakenly hauled the shark aboard at approximately 5pm on his fishing expedition, when he sustained the large bite to his upper left arm.

The incident follows two more shark attacks in the Whitsundays last month.

Results from a landmark research project concerning driver awareness has shown 45 per cent of Australian drivers are distracted behind the wheel.

Filming hundreds of drivers inside their vehicles over nearly two million kilometres, results indicated every 96 seconds a driver was distracted by something other than the road.

Researchers in the study were shocked by these figures, stating that driver distraction such as this causes about 16 per cent of motor vehicle crashes.

Australia is the last major wool-exporter to have wool-growers mules their flocks, after the practice was banned in New Zealand last week on animal cruelty grounds.

Almost 95% of wool-growers continue to remove skin around the tails and breeches of merino lambs to prevent maggot infestation and blowfly strike, which they say is more humane after the introduction of anaesthetic.