The Queensland Education Department has refused to disclose to the ABC how much they are paid for School banking program run by the commonwealth bank.

According to the Commonwealth Bank website the bank donates $100 for every 100 students enrolled in the program,  a $200 establishment contribution per school and further incentives for children depositing in their accounts.

The program has also been recently revealed to have been used for fraudulently in order to meet bonus and incentive goals.

Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten has said the Labor party will remain committed to stopping the boats at a Victorian Labor conference.

Pauline Brown from Labor for Refugees said she is extremely disappointed and feels upset for those still on Manus and Nauru.

Debate on the matter was shut down by a union deferral, despite a motion from Labor’s left to close offshore detention centres, transit centres and other camps on Manus and Nauru within the first 90 days of a Shorten government.  

American and North Korean officials have met at the border truce village in preparation for a possible meeting between US and North Korean leaders.

The meeting comes after US President Donald Trump pulled out of the original June 12 meeting in Singapore, due to what he called “open hostility” from the North Koreans.

The US government would want the North Koreans to completely get rid of its nuclear weapons.

The recent referendum in Ireland which saw 66% of people vote to change the Eighth Amendment, was triggered by the death of an Indian woman.

31 year-old Savita Halappanavar died in 2012 from a septic miscarriage despite asking for an abortion several times, which was denied due to the Irish eighth amendment which made any abortion illegal regardless of the reason.

Savita’s death triggered the debate in Ireland and led to the legalisation of medical abortions in 2013.