300 residents of the City of Clarence gathered last night to discuss concerns over the privatisation of Crown land on Hobart’s eastern shore.

The Clarence Council plans to lease the area to a developer to construct a multi-million dollar hotel in Rosny Hill, which residents describe as a sale and privatisation by any other name.

Tasmanian Conservation Trust director Peter McGlone also says the proposed developments would cover 40 percent of the reserve and threaten endangered plants.

A draft bill has been referred to a parliamentary committee to dissolve Ipswich City Council and to require a new election.

The laws would prevent Ipswich councillors from running as a candidate in any other local government election until 2020, and the act would expire on the 30th of June in the same year.

The bill comes after charges were laid against two Ipswich mayors; Local Government Minister Stirling Hinchliffe saying, “There are 15 current and former councillors and officials facing almost 80 charges in Ipswich…”

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.