Panama Papers: Mossack Fonseca unable to identify company owners

Fall out from the Panama Papers release continues, as the BBC reveals that Mossack Fonseca were unable to identify 70% of the owners it administered.

Mossack Fonseca had tried to close gaps in its record keeping to alert beneficiaries of 70% of the companies it administered in the British Virgin Islands, and 75% of the companies in Panama.

Emails obtained show the clients of the firm were using offshore structures to maintain confidentiality.

Parents' income tax could decide private school funding

Parent’s income tax returns could be used to decide the funding levels of the private schools their children attend, under a proposal being brought forward by the National School Resourcing Board.

Currently the funding is decided by Socio-economic scores based on the income, education, and occupation of areas where the students live.

Primary school teacher to fight students' claims of assault

A primary school teacher from Sydney’s south-west will fight allegations she punched, slapped and spat at young students.

The 57-year-old woman has been banned from her full-time teaching role at Bass Hill Primary School pending the outcome of court proceedings.

Facing six charges of common assault against four pupils of the school - all aged under 10 - she refused to answer questions after earlier entering not guilty pleas to the alleged offences.

Schoolboy suffers 'serious eye injury' in mishap with javelin

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.

Almost 550 Telstra jobs in Queensland at risk

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.”

Northeast Nigeria threatened by critical food insecurity

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.

Hungary criminalises aiding migrants with 'Stop Soros' bill

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.

Walkers over cars: Council proposes changes to make CBD pedestrian friendly

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.

'Ludicrous': Man loses business after $100k toll bill

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.