New revenge porn laws will see perpetrators spend up to seven years in jail or face fines over half a million dollars.

The laws to be introduced by the federal government will crackdown on “online creeps,” to defend users who are victimised by the sharing of personal images.

Of the 119 image-based abuses reported as of early June, 79% of people depicted were and one in three were under eighteen.

 For the first time, a comprehensive analysis shows the social and economic impacts being felt by the Stolen Generations and their descendants.

Study results about the intergenerational socioeconomic  impacts of the Stolen Generation have confirmed Indigenous Australians affected, experience increased hardships regarding 38 health and welfare concerns.

A national compensation scheme has been suggested in response to the report, which takes into consideration the pain passed from the Stolen Generation to their descendants.

Energex workers have been hacking council trees while conducting emergency or maintenance work across Brisbane.

Brisbane City Council have received numerous complains of trees being excessively pruned by Energex maintenance workers and left struggling to survive.

Guidelines will be discussed on Friday between Energex and the council to prevent this excessive pruning.

Popular video gamer “Ninja”, also known as Tyler Blevins, has announced that he doesn’t stream with women in order to avoid rumours of ‘flirting.’

In an interview with gaming website Polygon, Blevins attributed his decision to his marriage with fellow streamer Jessica Blevins.

Following his comments, Blevins has been accused of normalising gender discrimination in the gaming community and creating further exclusion in what is already a male-dominated community.

Waves of rubbish are crashing into a breakwater in Manila Bay, seen in footage released by students from San Beda University.

The students were undertaking a cleanup effort of the waterfront but were instead being battered the debris.

Philippines, the world’s third largest source of plastic ocean pollution, has been experiencing piles of rubbish washing ashore in the capital of Manila after heavy rains over the weekend. 

A 15 million year old native Australian grass found in abundance around the country has a new scientific application.   

Spinifex grass can be treated to isolate nanofibres and needs minimal chemicals and energy to do so, making it a more environmentally friendly way to help manufacturing processing problems.

Application for this groundbreaking grass include; cardboard, tyres and concrete.

Almost 140 heritage homes in Brisbane have been demolished with approval from the Brisbane City Council in the past 5 years.

Since July 2013, there have been 139 successful applications to demolish buildings which have been constructed before 1946.

A BCC spokesman states the Council will only approve demolition of pre-1946 houses in character building areas in very limited circumstances, such as unsafe structures and extensions where the building is no longer considered to represent pre-war architecture.

All Hallow’s School will have a 40 km/h school zone in Ann Street by Term 1 next year, as part of a new wave of school zones being installed across the city.

This zone will overlap with peak hour traffic and is hoped to create safer conditions for students going to and from school.

Ann Street and Turbot Street were exempt from a CBD speed limit reduction in 2009 as they were considered key traffic corridors.