The Greens have released a policy platform addressing the recent collapse of Australia’s recycling industry which increases pressure on the Federal Government to take leadership on the issue.

The Greens proposal includes enhanced technology and sorting processes at recycling plants, the phase out of single-use plastics, community grants targeted at recycling, and a national mandatory product stewardship scheme encouraging the production of recyclable goods.

A dozen human rights experts have signed an open letter to Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and NSW Health Minister Brad Hazzard raising concern about a Sydney exhibition featuring preserved human bodies.

The signatories claim there is evidence to suggest the exhibition is using the bodies of executed Chinese prisoners, including political prisoners.

Imagine Exhibitions, the company behind the ‘Real Bodies’ exhibition, sourced their bodies from Dr Hong-Jin Sui, an anatomy expert from China's Dalian Medical University.

The annual Great Brisbane Bike Ride is on again this Sunday, as part of Queensland's bike week.

This years theme for the event is, ‘Bikeways build better communities’, and the course will run from West End across the Gateway Bridge, looping back past Suncorp Stadium towards Brisbane’s highest peak for the Mount Coot-tha Challenge.

Interested riders can register online until midday today or from 5:30am the morning of the event.

Drivers are being warned of heavier traffic conditions tonight for the Bruce Highway ahead of The Killers concert at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre.

Commuters are warned of the extra congestion which will be present at the Boondall exit tonight as fans travel to the show in peak hour.

Authorities advise to seek an alternative route or take public transport if you are attending the show tonight.

Thousands of Germans of all faiths have turned out in ‘wear a kippa’ marches against Anti-Semitism in solidarity for the Jewish community, a day after Head of the Central Council of Jews in Germany, Josef Schuster, warned against Jewish men wearing a kippa in public.

The announcement came following an anti-Semitic attack last week in Berlin which targeted two men wearing kippas.

More than 100 new models of electric vehicles have been unveiled at China’s annual auto show in Beijing.

The Chinese government has been championing new energy vehicles with a planned cap and trade quota system forcing automotive manufacturers to make at least 10 percent of their output new energy vehicles or face fines while also providing subsidies for manufacturers. 

The Department of Foreign Affairs and trade has admitted two Australians died in London’s Grenfell Tower inferno in June last year which killed 71 people following persistent questioning from the Australian newspaper.

71-year-old Victoria King and her daughter 41-year-old Alexandra Atala, found deceased next to each other in flat 172, were the last two victims identified by Westminster coroner Fiona Wilcox, in November last year.

DFAT officials until this week refused to divulge names and ages of the victims, citing privacy reasons.

The world’s largest medicinal cannabis company, Canopy Growth Corporation, is to set up its Southern Hemisphere headquarters in Victoria, which legalised use in limited circumstances in 2016.

The $16 million cultivation and production hub, expected to create more than 200 jobs, eventually aims to export the product overseas.

In 2017, Victorian premier Daniel Andrews’ government released their medicinal cannabis strategy, aiming to have Victoria supplying half of Australia’s demand for the product by 2028.

The Kombi Clinic, run by Nurse Mim O’Flynn, is up for a Hesta award in the nursing and midwifery category for their ‘incredible work’ helping those with Hepatitis C.

The Kombi Clinic, which specialises in treating Hepatitis C, works from Logan, Redcliffe, Spring Hill, Cleveland and Inala, offering those with a high risk of Hepatitis C a one-stop shop for treatment with no hospital visits or wait times.