Cool temperatures throughout the state means the Queensland’s 2018 bushfire mitigation program - Operation Cool Burn, can begin.

Fire and Emergency Services Minister, Craig Crawford, says it’s a critical opportunity to help ease the bushfire threat in Queensland.

Mr Crawford believes communities, firefighters and other agencies need to come together to ensure Queenslanders are ready before, during and after a bushfire.

Facebook is launching a dating service aimed at “building real, long-term relationships, not just hook-ups.”

Social media mogul, Mark Zuckerberg says “potential matches will be recommended based on dating preferences, things in common, and mutual friends."

Security and privacy will be at the center of the development, following the data scandal surrounding the US election.

Paris May Day protests result in police arresting hundreds of people.

Police used water cannons and teargas against twelve thousand masked protesters who smashed windows and hurled petrol bombs with more than 200 people being arrested.

The clashes came due to disconnect with the president, Emmanuel Macron, over his plans to stimulate France’s economy and spur jobs growth by loosening labour regulations.

Over $5 million dollars from the National Disability Insurance Scheme has been handed to a lone private consulting agency, McKinsey and Company.

The US group was paid to conduct a review of the scheme’s pricing, but shadow social services minister, Jenny Macklin says there is concern of the levels of outsourcing.

Macklin says there is more work required to ensure the National Disability Insurance Scheme lives up to its promises and “many people with disability and their families feel let down and are frustrated by the problems with the NDIS rollout.”

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.”