The Democratic Republic of the Congo has confirmed their first death in the latest ebola outbreak with 11 more people infected, including three medical staff.

2016 Presidential Candidate and former US First Lady Hillary Clinton spoke at a ‘Women in Leadership”  talk in Melbourne yesterday.

Former Prime Minister Julia Gillard shared the stage with Clinton, and the pair discussed experiences of misogyny in office and eradicating sexism from politics.

Clinton also encouraged Australia to advocate strongly for its national interests, after she mentioned China’s expansionism; building naval bases and occupying reefs and atolls across the pacific.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission on Thursday announced it had granted conditional authorisation for a deal over cruise ship operator, Carnival’s access to the long awaited Port of Brisbane project.

Laws that would give the local government minister the power to sack or dismiss councils, individual councillors and mayors will be introduced to Queensland’s parliament next week.

Brisbane’s City Council have relocated a concrete slab away from a Kelvin Grove park after children playing handball there resulted in local noise complaints.

Many Nicaraguan citizens have participated in new anti-government protests in the capital, Managua and Matagalpa y Chinandega.

41 people, including 20 children, are dead after a damn burst in central Kenya after weeks of torrential rains on Wednesday.

Scientists, activists and researchers urge the World Health Organisation to combat HTLV-1 while federal government is pushed to responsibly deal with the virus spread in central Australia.