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’.

After being missing for more than four years, an eleven-year-old Queensland girl has been found by Australian Federal Police on Sunday.  

With a recovery order being issued by the Family court in June of 2014, Layla Leisha was believed to have been with her father at the time of her disappearance.

Early investigations suggested she had been residing with relatives in Lismore, NSW, however the AFP has declined to specify where she was found.

Teens from a remote indigenous community are using new technology to create a virtual reality adaptation of their acclaimed comic book series ‘NEOMAD’.

The four teenagers from rural Pilbara, Western Australia, are in talks with the ABC and NITV recreate their digital comic, titled 'Future Dreaming.'

One of the creators, Max Coppin, said VR was a different mode of storytelling for them, but believes it is a part of their own cultural legacy.

Workers at Australia’s five major airports will protest working conditions and pay in a global day of action today.

The Transport Workers’ Union said forced part-time hours, low pay, and split shifts have led to workers sleeping at the airport, endangering aviation safety and security.

The Brisbane protest will occur at the domestic terminal between Qantas and Virgin at 11am this morning.

An Egyptian human rights activist has become the second woman to be jailed this year after speaking out on Facebook about sexual harassment.

Amal Fathy has been sentenced to two years in prison for allegedly making “public insults”, “spreading false news”, and “possessing indecent material”.

Amnesty International has called on Egyptian authorities to release Fathy from detention and drop all charges.

An Indonesian Disaster Agency said they received insufficient warning before Friday’s tsunami due to faulty early-detection buoys off the Sulawesian coast.

A disaster management expert said the system hasn’t worked since 2012, and contributed to the deaths of more than 844 people in the disaster.

Efforts to alert residents to potential tsunamis were also inadequate, according to a spokesperson from the National Disaster Mitigation Agency.

A guard has been fired  from Woodford Correctional Centre on January 19, 2017 after an investigation found instances in which he fell asleep multiple times while watching inmates.   

The Queensland Industrial Relations Commission revealed that despite multiple warnings and sanctions from prisoners and prison officers, Mr Frederick Ball continued.

The commission also revealed unauthorised activities such as smoking on duty and an anauthorised strip seach.

The Embroiderers Guild Queensland Inc, in Brunswick Street in Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley dedicates a group of women to the practice of embroidery and needlework.

To celebrate the guild’s 50th birthday, an exhibit will be showcased inside the heritage-listed building.

This display will include a compilation of embroidery squares from the 500 members.