Australian citizens who were born overseas or have parents born overseas are being asked to prove their citizenship when renewing their passports.

It is reported that numerous people have had to apply for citizenship certificates, despite the fact they have held Australian passports before and have had no issues renewing them.  

The Department of Foreign Affairs states that the long-standing law requires the department to be satisfied of a person's citizenship before issuing a passport.

Linda Burney, Federal Labor MP has called for the debate over an Indigenous voice in Parliament to be resolved before the coming election.

Linda Burney, who was the first Indigenous person to serve in the New South Wales Parliament, believes it would be wrong if constitutional recognition became an election issue.

Ms Burney also stated this issue is important for the whole of Australia, adding Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull would be “on the wrong side of history” if he was unsupportive of an Indigenous voice in Parliament.

The United States military's Africa Command has confirmed its forces began deploying armed drones in Niger earlier this year.

The Nigerien government granted American forces permission in November 2017 to arm their drones; however, neither side had previously confirmed their deployment.

US Africa Command spokesperson Samantha Reho said the effort is part of the long-term strategic partnership between the two countries to counter armed groups in the region.

Around four million residents of the north Indian state of Assam are at risk of losing their citizenship.

The Assamese government published a register of citizens which required people to prove they came to India before March 24th, 1971, two days before Bangladesh’s declaration of independence.

The Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party plans to remove those deemed foreigners from Assam, though local government assure those recently designated foreigners will not be immediately deported.

During the 2018 financial year, 32,350 Australians declared themselves bankrupt.

Out of any state or territory across the country Queensland recorded the highest number of bankruptcies increasing by 1.5 per cent from last year.

Five suburbs on the top 10 list came from Queensland, these including Upper Coomera, Morayfield, Pimpama, Caboolture and Redbank Plains.

Many of these suburbs reported to include a high number of young families.

A Sydney recycling factory has plans to turn a quarter of a million tonnes of garbage into fuel every year.

The factory located in Wetherill Park, in Sydney’s West co-owned by waste companies Cleanaway and ResourceCo will turn this waste into fuel.

The waste will replace 100,000 tonnes of coal power and removing the equivalent of 20,000 cars off the road.

A Victorian Government logging company is believed to have broken the law during a forest clearing, claimed to be home to a threatened species.

VicForests claims it was conducting an experiment called the “Greater Glider Project”.

Greater Gliders are listed as a threatened species under federal laws, with conservationists alleging the forest clearing was undertaken so intensely it may have broken national laws.  

More than five million Zimbabweans participated yesterday in the nation’s first post-Mugabe election.

President Emmerson Mnangagwa, of the ZANU-PF party, and Nelson Chamisa, of the opposition MDC Alliance, are seen as the top two contenders.

Official results are expected to be released on Saturday the 4th of August.

Australian and New Zealand firefighters will be deployed to California for 42 days to help battle bushfires in the north of the American state.

The US’s National Multi-Agency Coordination Group requested the assistance of 188 specialist firefighters from Australia and New Zealand.

The fires have burned across 3,760 square kilometres in California, with 50,000 people evacuated and six dead.