French President Emmanuel Macron has rewarded a 22-year-old migrant with a French citizenship and a job as a firefighter.

Mamoudou Gassama was awarded these rights after scaling an apartment building, climbing five floors to save a young child dangling from a balcony.

He has been regarded as a hero, also being awarded with a medal from the president for “courage and devotion”.

A haze of smoke has descended over Sydney this morning from regional controlled burnings.

This is one of several instances of smoke hazes this month that have affected air quality across the city.

The smoke hazes have prompted the Asthma Foundation of New South Wales to call for fire protection regulations that will not compromise health requirements.

A coroner has determined that the death of a 91 year old woman in Tasmania’s Royal Hobart Hospital could have been prevented with proper risk assessment.

The woman died three days after falling and fracturing her hip, with no staff present to witness the fall.  

The woman’s cognitive function had declined and her risk of falling was not properly assessed, prompting the coroner to state the hospital should have taken more action to prevent her fall.

A $500,000 upgrade has been announced for the Meakin Park sporting fields near Logan under the Palaszczuk Government’s new Female Facilities Program.

Member for Waterford Shannon Fentiman says Football Queensland will use the funding to upgrade nine dressing rooms and referees room to include 29 brand new unisex shower cubicles and 10 unisex toilets.

Palaszczuk’s program overall involves $15.2 million worth of funded projects designed to improve female facilities in Queensland.

Brisbane’s dog population has increased by about 10 per cent in the past five years.

With the expected forecast close to 400,000 extra people to call Brisbane home by 2041, Brisbane city council is reviewing its animal management due to the predicted influx of dogs into the city.

Over the past five years the number of registered dogs has gone up by roughly 10% with that number only going to escalate in the coming years.

150,000 cows are to be killed in New Zealand in order to eradicate Mycoplasma bovis bacteria from the national herd.  

This decision is expected to completely eradicate the bacteria, improve long-term productivity and reduce production losses on farms.

Politicians and industry leaders anticipate this decision will cost $886 million New Zealand dollars.  

An intelligence report has revealed attempts by the Chinese government to compromise Australia’s major political parties for the past decade.

According to the report, China’s Communist Party has attempted to infiltrate all layers of Australian government, including local, though the details remain classified.

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull ordered the report in 2016, which influenced the introduction of foreign interference laws in 2017.

Four Australian Universities have appeared in the top 100 University world rankings.

The University of Melbourne has overtaken the University of Sydney and is now the highest-ranked Australian University.

The two institutions are place at 57 and 71, with the University of Queensland and Australian National University at 74 and 82, also making this years top 100 rankings.

Clive Palmer calls the freezing of his assets by the Queensland Supreme Court a ‘political witch hunt.’

He is also dismissing allegations he owes former Queensland Nickel staff money, asserting he ‘doesn’t owe them any money.’

Mr Palmer’s debts include unpaid entitlements amounting to tens of millions of dollars to over 800 staff at his former refinery in Townsville.