Parents and early childhood educators have voiced their concerns about the modern day classrooms, following the decline of play-based learning.

They blame NAPLAN testing and the pressure of success for the decline, with kindergarten and pre-school students now learning at a level equivalent to a year 2 class 25 years ago.

Two bureaucrats who were heavily involved in procuring 4.4 billion dollars worth of dodgy trains in Queensland have been promoted to senior positions in State Government.

Dave Stewart and Neil Scales, the heads of department for the disastrous North Queensland Rail fleet, now hold the position of Director General of Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk’s Department of Premier and Cabinet and Director General of the Department of Transport and Main Roads respectively.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is moving to stop an interstate trade that sees more than a million tonnes of waste a year generated by NSW dumped across the border.

The state looks set to reintroduce a waste levy that will increase charges on every tonne of waste that isn't recycled, as Ipswich City continues to be inundated with waste from Sydney and other parts of NSW.

The families of Rohingya Muslims who fled the country via boat to Malaysia say Myanmar authorities have threatened to arrest them for allowing their relatives to leave Myanmar’s troubled Rakhine state.

56 Rohingyas left Rakhine state on a wooden boat on or around March 25, stopping briefly in Thailand before being intercepted in Malaysia.

Facebook has announced that the personal data of 87 million users, mostly in the United States and United Kingdon, may have been improperly obtained by British political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, 37 million more users than has previously been estimated. 

These new figures were revealed by Facebook’s Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer in a recent announcement of improvements to the platforms privacy tools.

Australian scientists are one step closer to developing new pain relief drugs from chemicals, known as conotoxins, used by venomous sea snails to immobilise and kill their prey.

Professor of pharmacology at the University of Sydney, Macdonald Christie said indications suggest conotoxins are more effective than opioids and cannabinoids, have fewer side effects and the additional benefit of treating the cause of pain.

A shark has interrupted a police operation in Australia’s most renowned shark habitat off the coast of South Australia.

The South Australian police were administering a random breath test to the owner of a recreational fishing vehicle when the shark gilded between the boat and the police dinghy.

The shark had been circling the fishing boat prior to police arrival and after waiting for the shark to pass, police abandoned their breath test allowing both boats to depart to safety.

Calls were made yesterday for Queensland to start a commission into road safety and active transport to end the state’s shocking road toll.

Bicycle Queensland’s Chief executive Anne Savage is planning to bring light to the issue at the parliamentary committee hearing into the Heavy Vehicle National Law and Other Legislation Amendment Bill.

The commission call comes after data reveals there were 242 avoidable road related deaths in Queensland in the past 12 months.