A woman has compiled a website listing all female owned trade businesses in an effort to publicise female-run businesses.

After noticing a lack of publicity of female electricians, carpenters, mechanics and builders, Wendy Pinch created a directory called ‘Lady Tradies.’

Pinch hopes people who feel vulnerable such as the elderly or domestic violence victims, use the directory to access trade-qualified women.

An excess of apartments has resulted in massive discounts throughout Brisbane.

A recently available apartment in Chermside that was originally purchased in 2010 for $522,000 is being advertised for $315,000 - a forty-percent decrease.

SQM Research managing director Louis Christopher says “there has been an oversupply of properties…[but] there is a chance now that the worst may actually be over.”

The number of female Liberal MPs serving across the six states’ parliaments has gone backwards compared to five years ago.

The liberal party’s lack of female representation has been brought to light following the disendorsement of Liberal minister Jane Prentice on the weekend.

Currently, women make up 22 per cent of the Liberal party compared with 24 percent in 2013.

Catalonian MPs have elected a new leader, Quim Torra, who has pledged to continue the fight for independence from Spain.

Others have criticised Mr Torra as being just a puppet for separatist leader Carles Puigdemont, who remains in a self imposed exile since Catalan declared independence in October last year.

Spain’s Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy, says he has offered to talk with Catalan’s leader.

A windshield panel of a passenger plane has cracked and flown away mid-flight, causing cockpit equipment to malfunction and injure the crew.

The pilot and co-pilot were saved from being sucked out by their seat-belts, and went on to land the plane at Chengdu twenty minutes later.

Passengers on the Chinese airliner experienced a sudden loss of pressure and uncomfortably cold temperatures before the cabin crew closed the cockpit door which had flown open.

New laws in Australia to boost counter-terrorism efforts at airports will give police more power than before.

The law will allow the federal police to ask anyone for ID and to eject them from airports.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull told 3AW radio this morning “police are being trained to observe behaviour [and] place very close attention to people who are looking anxious or creating a suspicious environment”.

Under a new Turnbull government plan, migrants who come to Australia on regional skilled visas could be forced to stay in rural areas even after securing residency rights.

Multicultural minister, Alan Tudge, said that many migrants did not stay long in the region once they are granted a permanent visa, contributing to labour shortages in regional areas.

Legal challenges have been raised with the plan potentially restricting long term freedom of movement.