Your latte might be helping farmers across the country make rich, healthy compost for future harvests.

'Closed loop' growers are part of a movement making exactly that happen, partnering with cafes and restaurants nationwide to turn waste into produce.

By repurposing organic yields from kitchens like peels, coffee grounds, and eggshells, farmers can create different composting systems to fuel the farm at different stages of production.

Brisbane City Council has released tenders for the two main projects of the anticipated Brisbane metro, with the tender for vehicles and an estimated 315 million dollar upgrade to the Cultural Centre Station.

Cr Adrian Schrinner said the overall project would likely change following input from businesses, but stressed the importance of putting forward ideas for the station upgrade that would "wow people".

Queensland’s newest fleet of trains, which have been plagued by disability access issues will be examined by a government inquiry.

Hundreds of problems need to be rectified across at least 35 trains, including braking, air-conditioning, ventilation and sightlines for train drivers.

The $4.4 billion trains also failed disability access tests, with the Human Rights Commission refusing the Government an exemption from disability compliance laws.

Pakistan has been hit by violence on the day of its general elections - with at least 31 dead in the worst attack.

According to unofficial results, the PTI party is currently leading in 109 national assembly seats, while PML-N is ahead in about 67 seats, with only 26% of the votes have been counted so far, according to local media

The campaign has been overshadowed by concerns of fraud and violence, and the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan says there have been "blatant" attempts to manipulate the polls.

A satellite orbiting Mars has found evidence of a huge underground lake of liquid water, in a discovery greeted by scientists as “stunning”, “incredible”, and “of extraordinary significance”.

“This is currently our best, albeit slim chance of discovering life elsewhere in our solar system,” says the executive director of space engineering at the University of Sydney, Warwick Holmes.

The water is likely sludgy, filled with salt, and under incredibly high pressures, all of which keeps it from freezing in the minus
68 degree temperatures.

The Australian Medical Association’s president, Dr Anthony Bartone, has promised to do “whatever it takes" to safeguard patient privacy ahead of a meeting with the federal government.

Dr Bartone did not rule out pushing for the legislation governing the scheme - which allows patient information to be handed over to certain agencies, without a warrant - to be scrapped and rewritten.

A man living with a disability who featured in ads across the country for the National Disability Insurance Scheme when it launched has had his own NDIS application rejected.

Jeremy Hawkes, 46, lives with Parkinsonism and chronic pain from a spinal injury, and was cast in a nationwide NDIS campaign in 2013.

Mr Hawkes said when he received a letter this year informing him that his application was rejected, he was devastated.

An international koala protection group is engaging a barrister to challenge the Queensland government in court over failing to protect the koala’s habitat.

Sue Arnold from Australians for Animals, said state and federal governments were now dragging their feet in protecting koalas.

Ms Arnold said neither the Queensland nor New South Wales governments set up koala protection zones “as promised” and neither set aside land for koala habitat “as promised”.

When it comes to public transport, Queenslanders are less concerned than the rest of the country.

According to national research by the Committee for Economic Development of Australia, Queenslanders placed less relative importance on high quality and accessible public transport compared with the whole of Australia.

More than two-thirds of Queensland workers were satisfied with their travel time to and from work, with 85 per cent reporting their trip to work took less than an hour.