The world surf league has announced it will award equal prize money for both men and women competitions across events within 2019 and beyond.

This move has been met with positivity as Australian Surfing champion has said the change is a move in the right direction, saying that whilst the prize money is great, the message means even more and hopes that this change serves as a model for other global sports organisations.

An Israeli court has faded backlash from Palestinian and right groups for greenlighting the demolition of a Bedouin Village within the occupied West Bank, displacing 180 residents

The Ramallah based Palestinian Authority has stated that the project to raze the village implies Israel's plans to confiscate Palestinian lands, killing any hopes for a future Palestinian State

Three more cases of meningococcal have been diagnosed in Western Australia, raising the state’s number of cases to 24 for the year.

A young child and two adults are recovering in hospital after being diagnosed with the potentially deadly disease.

All were infected with serogroup W, which follows a recent increase in the number of cases in the state. However, the three cases are not linked. 17 of these cases in Western Australia have been of the serogroup W strain.

New South Wales Minister Brad Hazzard has called for his state and federal counterparts to support a new proposal, which requires any tourist visiting Australia to take out private health insurance.

This would extend conditions that already apply to foreign students and some working visa holders.

Minister Hazzard says every time an uninsured visitor does not pay for their treatment in one of our public hospitals, taxpayers foot the bill.

The long-awaited replacement venue for the demolished Festival Hall, dubbed The Fortitude Music Hall, will pay tribute to the older city buildings demolished in the 1980s.

This architectural design feature was unveiled on Wednesday and will be on full display in 2019—when the hall is expected to open.

The Brisbane City Council has begun discounting cat desexing at 30 local vets in order to reduce stray and abandoned cat populations.

Yesterday the council announced it would commit fifty five thousand dollars in the current financial year to the program.

This comes as the council has received over 700 complaints regarding brisbane's feral cats and has captured 800 of these cats in the last year.

A mass blackout has left vast swathes of Bali without power, after a major substation outage occurred just after midday on Wednesday.

Major parts of the island are still without electricity after a supply disruption between a substation in Kediri and a coal power plant on the neighbouring island of Java. Traffic lights are down in Denpasar and many homes are still without power.

The cause of the blackout is still under investigation by local utility authorities.

7000 insects along with one of the worlds most highly venomous spider have been stolen from the Philadelphia Insectarium and Butterfly Pavillion in the United States.

The thieves, on the 22nd of August, stole more than 40,000 dollars worth of insects, with police believing the heist to be an inside job.

The insectarium and police state that it’s difficult to track which specific creatures have been stolen as the thieves also stole the logs used to track the pavilion’s insects.

Victorias Admissions authority has warned schools to stop publishing misleading results following 2 elite private schools promoting inaccurate year 12 scores

The Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre or VTAC has warned every Victorian school to publish accurate results as schools have inaccurately equated International Baccalaureate scores of 6 or 7 to VCE scores of above 40, placing this student in the states top 9 percent.