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.

A Gold Coast bait supplier has been found guilty and fined $10,000 for the transport of raw prawns outside the white spot disease zone.

All bait prawns tested positive for white spot syndrome were traced and removed from sale, preventing the spread of white spot disease to new waterways.

There are white spot syndrome movement restrictions from Caloundra to the NSW border and west to Ipswich.

The ACT government is introducing free childcare for three year olds as part of a new strategy on early childcare education.

The state government has planned to offer 15 hours per week or 600 hours per year, of free childcare to parents.

These changes come from recommendations from a national review released in February.

The Federal Government is being pushed to review the way they pay for road infrastructure, with a push for a new tax where drivers pay for every kilometre they drive.

With the growing use of electric vehicles, the government's revenue coming from fuel is declining as drivers are exiting the pool leaving petrol users with the increasing road costs.

Infrastructure Partnerships Australia chief executive Adrian Dwyer, is amongst those supporting introducing a new road pricing system claiming it to be ‘fairer’ for road users.

Monsoon rains in Myanmar have caused floods across the country, killing at least ten people and displacing around 50,000 others.

Director of the department of disaster management, Phyu Lai Lai Htun, says they have provided boats and lifejackets for people and arranged temporary shelter.

The water is now stable in two of the affected states and receding in the Mon and Bago states.

A suspected terrorist attack in Tajikistan has killed four cyclists and injured three others, all foreign tourists.

The tourists were cycling through a rural area near the capital Dushanbe when they were hit by a car, which allegedly made a U-turn and hit them again.

Tajik President Imomali Rakhmon expressed condolences to the US, Swiss and Dutch authorities on Monday.