Smokers in Tasmania are set to be given vouchers for local businesses if they quit smoking for at least three months.

Participants have to prove their sobriety through a regular carbon monoxide breath-test and in return will receive a voucher each week for the first month, and at the end of the second and third month - up to the value of $310.

The project started on 1st May and received several express interests in the programme.

A Brisbane family is furious after been ordered off a South-east Queensland beach by staff at a nearby resort.

The security team at Tangalooma Island resort told the family they weren’t entitled to use part of the beach during the Easter long weekend.

A department of Natural Resources spokesman says the resort has been warned that everybody is welcome to enjoy beach.

Icebergs from the Antarctica might be towed to South Africa in an effort to solve Cape Town’s crippling water shortage.

Nick Sloane, Marine salvage expert, says he is looking for investments to help guide the icebergs towards South Africa before melting them down into millions of litres of drinking water.

South Africa has been in a state of disaster after two of its driest years on record in 2015 and 2016.

Myanmar security forces are accused of a systematic campaign of sex crimes against Rohingya Muslims which has caused an increase in the number of pregnant women in Bangladesh refugee camps.

The refugee camps are expecting an average of 3100 births to occur over the next few months, as women had been aborting the pregnancies at home before having to go to the hospital for emergency treatment.

The medical aid groups say they have already treated 311 survivors of sexual violence between the 25th August 2017 to the 31st March 2018 aged nine to fifty years old.

Death cap mushrooms have been found in the ACT.

These deadly shrooms are responsible for killing four people and poisoning more residents, so authorities are warning not to pick or eat any wild fungi.

ACT’s chief health officer Dr Paul Kelly says "If you think you have eaten a death cap mushroom, seek urgent medical attention at a hospital emergency department and take any remaining mushroom to the hospital for identification.”

Babies of teenage mums are more likely to be born prematurely or with increased health risks according to a new Australian Institute of Health and Welfare report.

Report author, Dr Fadwa Al-Yaman says the babies’ poorer health is interlinked with smoking, lower levels of education and living in remote communities.  

But these young mums are healthier during and after birth with more spontaneous labours as well as lower caesarean section and diabetes rates.

Brisbane residents are producing more than 90,000 tonnes of recyclable waste every year with almost half being paper and cardboard.

Amid questions surrounding South East Queensland's recycling, it has been revealed that 7% of the recyclables is going to landfill.

Council's waste and resource recovery service manager, Arron Lee, says the escalating landfill levies and glass is a problem for Australia’s recycling industry.

Lawyers are warning that the Murray-Darling basin plans are likely to be unlawful.

Bret Walker, the chairman of the South Australian royal commission into the Murray-Darling basin plan, warns it will not meet the original water recovery target of 2,750 Gigalitres.

Mr Walker believes the Water Act could be challenged in court and amendments debated by the Senate are likely to be invalid as well.