Queensland is reportedly responsible for up to sixty-five percent of the total loss of native forests in Australia.

This comes after an area about seven times the size of Brisbane has been cleared from twenty-fifteen to twenty-sixteen.

Climate Council spokesman Professor Will Steffen says Queensland is responsible for 19 million tonnes of greenhouse gas pollution in 2015.

The Palaszczuk Government has reinstated the Ready Reading Program, scrapped six years ago, in a bid to improve NAPLAN results.

Premier Palaszczuk said $1.5 million will be spent over three years to train 3,000 volunteers to hear children read in schools, which the opposition see as an insult to current volounters.

Opposition education spokesman Jarrod Bleijie has labeled the program for Queensland schools ‘a waste of money’.

The “man drought” in Australia is promoting the use of loaded terminology such as “leftover women” according to documentary maker, Mariona Guiu.

Miss Guiu’s documentary Singled Out found for every five women there is only one “available” man in Australia and the quality of male partners have not necessarily improved as women have become more independent.

Australian women are becoming accustomed to their “single existence” as the pressure to find an adequate partner is toxic and is made more difficult by societal norms and expectations.

A group of Aussie and kiwi travellers have lost their belongings after escaping a bus fire on the way to an Anzac Service in Gallipoli.

The 43 passengers were just four hours into their journey in Turkey when smoke started coming from the engines and they were told to get off.

Although they all escaped unhurt, many have lost their luggage including passports and mobile phones.

A search for a man and a boy missing in a three metre inflatable boat near Ningaloo reef in Western Australia continues.

The pair, aged twelve and eighteen, left South Lefroy Bay on Tuesday at 4pm and were expected home two hours later but failed to return.

Local volunteers are searching the shoreline and Australian Maritime Safety Authority has set up a jet to help with the search.

1275 Queensland households have become victim to fake energy, phone and internet bills over the last twelve months.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission reported the average amount taken by scammers was $8000.

Representatives from various providers say the scams are becoming increasingly sophisticated and customers should report any suspicious emails especially if they claim overdue, overpaid, ready to pay bills or ask directly for bank details.
 

The Australian Fred Hollows foundation is trying to change the increasing number of blind Bangladeshian’s.

It is estimated that 50,000 in the Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh suffer from blindness.

Many of the refugees fled from Myanmar after a murderous crackdown with the United Nations calling them “the most persecuted and unloved people on earth.”

A technical issue has affected ID scanners across Queensland.

Over the last 7 months, more than 100 court ordered banning notices had not been sent to ID scanners across clubs and pubs across the state.

A second technical issue was flagged relating to the transfer of data to a national system used for background checks,  26 incorrect results were issued, including 17 Blue Card checks.