Supporters of Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton are advocating for challenging Prime Ministser Malcolm Turnbull in a leadership battle.

They claim that Dutton would have the numbers to win, due to the conflict within Mr Turnbull's energy policy, as well as his negative ratings in recent polls. 

Peter Dutton has reportedly spent the weekend conferring with Liberal MPs to discuss his views regarding the Prime Minister. 

It has been revealed that more than $11 million in infrastructure charge reductions have been given to the Brisbane City Council developers over the past three years. 

Lord Mayor Graham Quirk claims that the rates had to increase due to the 'significant decline' in revenue. 

Councillor Quirk outlined that the revenue from Brisbane infrastructure was around $100 million in the 2018-19 and 2019-20 financial years. 

Rural Aid has secured 2000 tonnes and over 2000 barrels that will be transferred to Queensland and New South Wales farmers over the month of August as it secures more resources to fight the current drought. 

The Buy a Bale program has moved hundreds of bales of hay to famers in towns such as Broken Hill, Bakers Creek  and Texas.

Rural Aid CEO Charles Alder has outlined the distribution of over 6000 over the past 6 months, however there is much more available from hay donations from everyday Australians. 

A sixteen-year-old Melbourne boy has pled guilty to repeatedly hacking tech giant Apple from his bedroom.

The teen’s home was raided by the Australian Federal Police on referral from the FBI, who found sensitive Apple documents saved on his computer in a folder called “hacky hack hack”.

A 12-year-old asylum seeker is reaching the two-week mark of his hunger strike in the Nauru Detention Centre.

A spokesperson for the Refugee Action Coalition Ian Rintoul said the boy is only receiving nutrients from intravenous fluids.

The boy has been admitted to the International Health and Medical Services Clinic on the island.

A blindfolded sixteen year-old challenged his principal and two students to games of chess at the same time - beating all three with just 50 moves.

The Gregory Terrace student directed a peer to move the pieces for him and describe his opponents’ moves.

The student says playing blindfolded is not a matter of intelligence, but rigorous practice in which he imagines the chess board.

A new antenna being installed on the International Space Station will allow astronauts to monitor turtles hatching from space.

The technology helps scientists track animal behaviour, migration and their local weather conditions.

The tracking system is a collaboration between Yale University and the German and Russian space agencies.