First Languages Australia and ABC Education are running an Aboriginal song competition for Australian and Torres Strait Islander schools and is one of several initiatives being undertaken to preserve and revive Indigenous languages.

Project officer at First Languages Australia, Annalee Pope, believes children hold the key to preserving Indigenous languages and that song is the best way to teach children about their importance.  

The Commonwealth has proposed a new funding model which spares Queensland from further GST funding, however the State Government has criticised how the $518 million funding difference would be made.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk questioned how Treasurer Scott Morrison would make up this difference, amid fears the state could lose funding from non-GST grants.

Opposition Treasury Spokesman, Tim Mander, said he “backs the federal Coalition’s credibility” in managing the economy.

Police have been forced to close Tamborine Mountain Road on the Gold Coast this morning because of a cement truck, that has been left partly hanging off the road’s edge.

A police spokeswoman has said the truck was perched on the edge of a steep drop with a potential risk of falling due to wet conditions.

The driver and his passenger escaped, with one patient taken to the Gold Coast University Hospital by paramedics in a stable condition.

In South Africa, at least two rhinoceros poachers have been eaten by Lions after remains were found at the Sibuya Game Reserve in the Eastern Cape on Tuesday afternoon.

Sibuya Reserve owner Nick Fox said that two, or possibly three human remains were found.

Police and an anti-poaching unit uncovered an axe, three pairs of shoes and gloves around the site of the remains.

Mr Fox said the axe confirmed the remains belonged to poachers, as axes are the tool of choice to dehorn the protected animals.

A Thai tourist boat named, ‘The Phoenix’, has capsized off the coast of Phuket, with 53 of its passengers currently missing and one man confirmed dead.

Australia’s National Carp Control Plan is investigating whether a strain of the herpes virus could reduce the carp population in Australian waterways.

Queensland pharmacists are wanting to sell medication, such as Viagra, over the counter.

The Queensland Ambulance Service has recorded its busiest year on record, with a 3.86% rise in call-outs in the past financial year.

South Brisbane residents who have been protesting the removal of dozens of trees for a bikeway they state won’t be used have claimed their pleas to the government have been ignored.