Violence in the Queensland prison system has reached a new high, with almost 3,000 jailhouse assaults recorded since 2017.

Overcrowded cells is regarded as a major cause of tension among inmates, as every high security correctional centre in Queensland is over capacity.

Debbie Kilroy of Sisters Inside says prison capacity is the wrong argument, and we need to look at the social issues pipelining people into prison.

A Brisbane vet has surgically implanted feathers into an injured Tawny Frogmouth, saving the bird from certain death, in a miraculous surgery.

The bird was found caught in barbed wire outside Jimboomba last week with little chance of surviving; however, through the process of ‘imping’ the bird was saved.

The surgery is not regularly practiced in Australia; however, the vet recently returned from Dubai where this is more common.

Woolworths have admitted to monitoring the activities of gamblers at a number of venues across their Australian Leisure and Hospitality group pokies arm.

Staff were instructed to note down descriptive information on customers, including what football team they support, in an effort to identify how to ensure customers stayed for longer at pokies machines.

ALH group have pledged to ensure disciplinary action is taken, and training would be boosted.

Calls to increase payments for those on Newstart have ramped up in South Australia, as a South Australian social services group compares the cost of a $75-a-week increase to that of a submarine.

Currently, unemployed single Newstart recipients receive $273 a week, or just below $40 a day.

Indonesian officials are coordinating relief efforts for residents and tourists on Lombok after an earthquake left 98 dead and many more missing.

The National Disaster Mitigation Agency says they expect the death toll to rise when the rubble of more than 13,000 houses is cleared away.

More than 10,000 people have already been evacuated from the island.

South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and rebel leader Riek Machar have signed a ceasefire and power-sharing agreement, ending the nation’s five year civil war.

South Sudan became independent from Sudan in 2011, and the civil war fuelled by personal and ethnic rivalries broke out two years later.

The conflict has killed tens of thousands of people, displaced an estimated quarter of South Sudan's population of 12 million and ruined its oil-reliant economy.