A Sunshine Coast schoolboy has been airlifted to hospital with a "serious eye injury" after a mishap with a javelin on Wednesday morning.

The teenager was carrying the javelin off the oval when the sharp end became caught in the ground causing the blunt end to flick into his eye, according to RACQ Lifeflight Rescue.

The patient was airlifted to Lady Cilento Children's Hospital in Brisbane by the Sunshine Coast-based RACQ LifeFlight Rescue.

Telstra jobs in Queensland are under review after the company announced that it would be restructuring to avoid a revenue shortfall in the future.

Almost 550 jobs at Telstra’s Townsville and Maryborough call centres are under review in the restructure, has been claimed by the Community and Public Sector Union.=

CPSU assistant state secretary Amy Smith says that the jobs are a serious risk as Telstra seeks to “cut customer pain points and create an all digital experience.”

As a result of farmers fleeing violent attacks to villages in Northeast Nigeria, the state of Borno is having a food security crisis.

Maiduguri has become the centre of changes in northeastern Nigeria over the last decade, with the formation of Boko Haram contributing to instability in the region.

Around 3.8 million people will face critical food insecurity and around 7.7 million will need life saving humanitarian assistance in the region this year.

The Hungarian parliament has passed new legislation that criminalises lawyers and activists who help asylum seekers.

Anyone "facilitating illegal immigration" will face a year in jail.

Viktor Orban's government has dubbed the legislation the "Stop Soros law", after the billionaire philanthropist it accuses of supporting Muslim migrants.

The Melbourne City Council will prioritise pedestrians and public transport over cars in changes being considered to make the city more pedestrian friendly.

Some of the changes being considered is the extension of crossing times on pedestrian signals, and limiting the speed of cars in the CBD to 30 kilometers per hour.

Figures provided by the council estimated that the daytime population will increase by around five hundred thousand per day to 1.4 million people in 2036.

A Melbourne 29-year-old lost his business after incurring more than $100,000 in fines over a two-year period driving on toll roads.

The man claims that he had no idea he was accruing the fines.

“They were sending everything to the wrong address and it wasn't our fault at all, it was a clerical error, which I guess had snowballed into a disaster,” he told A Current Affair.

Two Brisbane massage parlours have been hit with more than $100,000 in penalties for failing to back-pay two massage therapists thousands of dollars.

The operator of the Brisbane City Thai Massage and Day Spa and Heavenly Asian Massage parlours in Brisbane's CBD was penalised $97,000 in the Federal Circuit Court this week.

A worldwide search to try to find the best companies to build Brisbane’s tunnels and metro vehicles is about to start.

Brisbane City Council is progressing with its $944 million Brisbane Metro, first announced in 2016, with plans to take the project to the market within weeks.

The council has said it wants a 25-metre-long metro vehicle that can carry 150 people, has Wi-Fi and can run through underground tunnels at the Cultural Centre and Adelaide Street.