The owner of the “Battered Wife Fish and Chip Shop” in far north QLD has spoken out against backlash surrounding the name.

Attorney-General Yvette D'Ath said she was appalled by the shop's name after a domestic violence incident in the area.

A huge online backlash has come as well, labelling the shop as “insensitive” and “crass”  in its “trivialisation” of domestic violence.

The Northern Territory is unable to determine whether the scheme which encouraged the trading of recyclables for money is working due to inconsistent data collection and reporting.

The program ‘Cash for Containers’ allowed people in the Northern Territory to exchange their glass, plastic or aluminum cans for a 10 cent refund, however a 5 year review was unable to determine it success.  

In the last year alone, more than 6000 people were caught using Ice by Victorian Police.

"It is everywhere," said Janice Ablett, the manager and founder of the rehabilitation program, the Ice Meltdown Project, “it's destructive, it's demonic, it'll rip their family apart, it'll rip anyone apart."

Rural Victorian towns are taking the brunt of this pandemic drug use, and there is a serious lack of publicly available rehabilitation beds, all with months-long wait lists.

After a troubled production, the film “Bohemian Rhapsody”, a Freddie Mercury biopic, appears to have glossed over much of the sex and drugs, and focussed solely on the rock and roll.

It skips over Freddie Mercury’s childhood, his drug abuse and glosses over his sexuality and eventual death due to aids.

The film’s musical scenes are apparently fabulous however, even if the film has had a slightly too high dose of moralising.

Three patients with severe spinal cord injuries are now walking again, thanks to a surgically implanted stimulator that delivers electrical pulses to the spinal cord.

Two studies, released yesterday in the journals Nature and Nature Neuroscience, show how this technology and intense physical rehabilitation enabled these paraplegic patients to recover leg movement.

France has begun a national investigation into why babies are being born without hands and arms across the country.

The country’s health minister has announced that several new cases were reported this week, and people are alarmed that some kind of toxin could be at play.

The public health agency has identified over twenty cases of these birth deformities over the past 18 years, all in different areas of the country.

The government has transported several more families from Nauru to Adelaide to receive medical treatment this week, and there are now only 40 or 50 children on the island.

The Morrison government has plans to get all children off Nauru by the end of the year.

Border officials are now agreeing to medical transfers, whereas before a court order was required before anyone could leave the island.

From today, hospitals in Victoria will need to alert the state’s health department within 24 hours if a patient has life-threatening allergic reactions to packaged food or drink.

This new measure is being introduced after the death of a 10-year-old boy in 2013; the boy drank an imported coconut drink which didn’t declare the presence of cow’s milk, and he was severely allergic to dairy products. The department wasn’t notified that the drink was the likely cause of the reaction and it remained on sale for six weeks before being recalled.