Ipswich and Logan have been identified as south-east Queensland's best value areas for first home buyers.

Domain's 2018 First Home Buyers Report showed Ipswich featured an average entry price of $327,000 for a free-standing house, with it taking about 3.33 years to save a 20 per cent deposit.

The Redland Local Government Area was the most expensive place for entry price units at $385,000, taking an average of 3.92 years to save for a deposit.

In the US state of Indiana, a child has fired a loaded handgun in an Ikea store that they found inside of a couch.

It was left in the couch after another shopper had tested the furniture and the weapon had become dislodged from his person.

They only became aware of the missing weapon after hearing the gunshots inside the store. Ikea has stated that its stores are a no-weapons area to avoid such incidents.

A federal judge has ordered that US immigration agents can no longer separate parents and children caught crossing the border from Mexico illegally.

Dana Sabraw, a district court judge in San Diego, granted the preliminary injunction on Tuesday, which set a hard deadline for US immigration to work to reunite those families that have already been split up within 30 days.

The court also ruled children younger than five must be reunited with their families within 14 days.

New South Wales Police have reviewed 86 historical cases over the past three years after a report by the Australian Institute of Criminology questioned whether some cases had been sufficiently investigated.

27 deaths have been revealed to have been hate crimes. Police have acknowledged previously they had played a part in "marginalising" the LGBTQI community.

It found that hate crimes were either confirmed or suspected in 27 deaths, and that further investigation was needed in another 25 cases.

It has been revealed in an estimates hearing that 100% of the children in detention in the Northern Territory are Indigenous.

“The royal commission provided evidence that the ways that the Balanda [white] system treats Aboriginal children is inhumane, costly and does not work," said the member for Nhulunbuy, Yingiya Mark Guyula in a statement to the committee.

Dale Wakefield, Northern Territory’s family minister, told the committee it is an area that they are going to need to continue to develop.

The ABC this morning revealed Ipswich City Council’s development business, Ipswich City Properties has lost almost $85 million.

The development arm of the council has lost almost half of the annual rate haul for the city in the venture.

It has lost money on operations every year it has been in existence.

The venture was started with a $45 million loan from the Queensland State Treasury, which will have to be repaid.

The RSPCA is appealing for information from the public to help find those responsible for leaving seven puppies suffering from a severe case of mange on the side of the road west of Brisbane.

The puppies were found in the Forest Hill area near Gatton on Tuesday night by a member of the public.

All seven were suffering from a severe case of mites which has caused significant hair loss and scarring, and could have been deadly if left untreated.

In the Netherlands overnight, a British-led proposal will empower the international agency responsible for the control of chemical weapons to assign blame for attacks.

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons member states voted to allow the organisation to name organisations or states that it believes has used banned munitions.

The proposal received 82 votes for and 24 against, with Russia, Iran, Syria, and their allies opposing the motion.

Russia now openly questioned the future of the OPCW.