The effective Chinese ban on recycling materials has prompted a Gold Coast businessman to invest in tyre recycling technology.

Adrian Fuller, who owns Adrian's Metal Recyclers, has invested in a Canadian invention which turns discarded tyres into bricks to be used as paving, retaining walls and house foundations.

Mr Fuller said the days of buying material from the public and putting it into a container and sending it overseas are over

Today the federal treasurer, Scott Morrison, is expected to make an announcement about changes to how the GST take is divided between the states.

The changes are rolled out in stages, with the West Australian government to receive top-ups after the millennial mining boom has dried up, in the first stage of the plan.

The federal government will then commit hundreds of millions of dollars to the GST pool to ensure no state will receive less than seventy-five cents for each dollar they contribute.

Bulk-billing doctors surgeries are reportedly turning away the vulnerable in the community, with children and the mentally ill most at risk.

As the rebates fall in real terms, frozen at thirty-seven dollars and sixty cents, bulk-billing surgeries are churning through patients at up to ten per hour which earns them three hundred and eighty dollars.

Doctors that see four patients an hour, will only earn one hundred and fifty two dollars an hour, a rate that could see them losing money.

In Yemen, a UN envoy met with Houthi leaders in the rebel-occupied capital of Sanaa in an effort to negotiate a cease-fire, but could not resolve the ongoing dispute.

Houthi negotiator Salem Moghlek said the envoy’s meeting brought nothing new, and the Houthis did not recognise a cease-fire in the city of Al Hudaydah for there was no agreement on one with the United Arab Emirates.

The UN hopes to prevent a full-scale assault from the Saudi-led coalition in Al Hudaydah, with current fighting limited to the outskirts of the city.

French President Emmanuel Macron has told the BBC that EU plans to create migrant processing centres in North Africa will not work unless the process is led by those countries.

Mr Macron said that Europe would be dealing with migration from Africa for decades due to what he called the fundamental problem of unplanned population growth in Africa.

He has been criticised for saying similar thing in the past, with some accusing him of repeating colonial sentiments.

Winton’s Royal open-air Picture Theatre has turned one hundred years old, and is the last of the four open air theatres in the rural town to survive to this day.

The Royal Theatre is often used as a museum for visitors, and at the annual Vision Splendid Outback Film Festival.

However the future of the theatre is in doubt, with the owners unable to provide for an upgrade to a digital projector.

The Theatre currently uses a loaned digital projector to host the film festival, and all other movies are projected using film.

Acting Prime Minister of New Zealand, Winston Peters claimed Australia breached its UN obligations of Children’s rights, after a seventeen-year-old NZ citizen was detained with adults in Melbourne.

Peter Dutton responded to the claim, saying he is welcome to go back on the first flight out, and his own duty was to keep Australia safe.

More than one thousand Kiwi’s have been deported since changes to the migration act in 2014.

Canberra’s political journalists are threatening to boycott Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's visit to Nauru, unless local government reverses its ban on ABC staff attending.

The ABC was due to send a cameraman, a photographer and a journalist to cover the Pacific Islands Forum, but in wake of the ban, the federal press gallery decided if one cannot go, none will go.

Mr Turnbull said the Nauruan government’s decision is regrettable, but the local authorities have the right to decide who is allowed in.

Former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak pleaded not guilty to three charges of criminal breach of trust and one count of using his position for gratification.

The charges are part of a probe into missing money from Malaysia’s state fund 1MDB, with over 42 million ringgit transferred into Mr Najib’s personal bank account.

Mr Najib said he is confident in his innocence, and is due to appear in court February next year.