Camp dogs have become part of the landscape, a part of family life, and Aboriginal communities in many remote towns in the Northern Territory, but it can be tricky to control overpopulation of these animals.

Animal Management in Rural and Remote Indigenous Communities have developed a census tool to better track and treat camp dogs and cats in the area, offering the animals medicine and desexing services.

Three Indigenous men from Albury-Wodonga closed local NAIDOC Week celebrations with the region’s first LGBT+ Aboriginal event, Dragioke.

‘Dragioke’ gained local sponsorship and sold out within two weeks without promotion, which the performers say is encouraging and indicated acceptance.

Performer Mitch Hibbens, a Wiradjuri man, says access to similar when he was younger and grappling with being a gay Indigenous man would have greatly helped his well-being.

A proposed underwater graveyard could soon find Gold Coast residents spending their after-life underwater.

The city is seeking solutions to a shortage of burial plots, examining the construction of a site under the Broadwater or the Spit where cremated remains would rest.

The plan has been under investigation since January, with a site of a similar approach off the coast of Miami seems to be inspiration for the council.

The Brisbane-based company Microba has developed a new testing protocol for a range digestive problems.

The test involves taking a faecal sample and mailing it to a laboratory which can use DNA sequencing to reveal the state of gut microorganisms.

Senior scientist Dr Alena Pribyl says the process, which is an Australian-first, is similar to bowel cancer screening test, but though it is informative, it is not medically diagnostic.

A Human Rights Watch report has suggested Myanmar’s government “should promptly address illegal land confiscations, compensate aggrieved parties, and reform laws to protect people against future abuses.”

Myanmar government and military officials have seized land from farmers over the past 30 years “while providing them with no or inadequate compensation”, said the 33-page report on Tuesday.

Farmers who had protested the lack of compensation or refused to leave their land often faced criminal prosecution.

Israel has prevented gas and fuel deliveries from entering the Gaza Strip a week after shutting down the Kerem Shalom crossing, the only commercial crossing into the Strip.

Initially, only items deemed humanitarian were allowed into Gaza, including fuel; however the Israeli defense ministry announced will remain open only for food and medicine on a case-by-case basis.

The UN and Gisha, the Legal Centre for Freedom of Movement, describe the act as collective punishment, with Gisha further describing it as morally depraved.

The Federal Government’s cashless welfare card trials’ effectiveness is unreliable according to a report by the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO).

In 2016, welfare recipients in parts of Western and South Australia were given cashless debit cards in an attempt to reduce alcohol, gambling and drug misuse.

80 percent of a person’s Centrelink allowance is placed on the card and is only to be used for essential items.