An indoor shooting range north of Brisbane has been fined after an employee was diagnosed with acute lead poisoning due to exposure to ammunition.

The employee, whose duties included close supervision of shooters, was diagnosed with lead poisoning, and his blood test revealed a lead level thirteen times the acceptable high-end range.

Kreutzer Pty Ltd pleaded guilty to a breach of the Work Health and Safety act and were required to pay $77,000 plus court costs.

Hawaii boat tours are continuing to take visitors to see lava, despite an explosion which sent molten rock through the roof of a vessel yesterday and injured 23 people.

The agency had been allowing experienced boat operators to get 50 meters closer to the lava, despite the Coast Guard prohibiting vessels from getting closer than 300 meters from where the volcano’s lava reaches the sea.

Thousands of Amazon workers across Europe are striking over salaries, benefits and work conditions, with German walkouts joining those in Spain and Poland.

German trade union spokesperson Stefanie Nutzenberger says while the online giant gets rich, it is saving money on the health of its workers.

Secretary General of Spain’s Workers Commissions, Unai Sordo says Amazon must resume negotiations and guarantee the workers unquestionable rights.

After trying to opt out of “My Health Record”, an online summary of your healthcare information, Australians have been shocked to discover they already have a health record set up.

Residents were told they had until October 15th of this year to dismiss their online record.

Almost 6 million Australians currently hold a My Health Record according to the Australian Digital Health Agency (ADHA).

The small-town culture of Northern Territory workplaces may prevent women from reporting cases of sexual harassment, according to an anti-discrimination commissioner Sally Sievers.

Sievers says workplaces are supposed to have a robust, confidential complaint process to report sexual harassment, but in smaller places like NT, many people do not know the process exists.

Seivers also says many women who initially said they had not been sexually harassed would realise they had been after outlining what constituted sexual harassment.

Ipswich Grammar School was evacuated on Tuesday morning due to a threatening phone call message.

Emergency services were called to the scene after staff and students were removed from the premises before 9am.

Queensland police searched the school but no threat was found and the nature of the threat still remains unknown.

Competing cinema groups are fighting over the future of the Red Hill Skate Rink site in inner city Brisbane.

A $10 million dollar redevelopment was proposed by Five Star Cinemas and given the green light last year, but Reading cinemas is seeking to have this approval overturned in the Planning and Environment Court.

The arena was burnt down on Boxing Day in 2002 and was added to the council’s heritage register in 2016.

Researchers have found the remains of the world’s oldest bread at a prehistoric site in north-east Jordan.

The bread was baked around 14,500 years, more than 4,000 years before early plant cultivation and farming societies.

University of Copenhagen researcher Amaia Arranz-Otaegui says they now must analyse the relationship between bread production and agriculture, as bread may have provided an incentive to begin farming.