Scientist have confirmed Uranus smells eggy.

A new study has revealed the gas planet’s clouds consist of hydrogen sulphide which produces the unpleasant aroma.

Lead author of the study Professor Patrick Irwin says after this discovery, there are now many other opportunities to solve the mysteries about Uranus.

Israel has scrapped a plan to forcibly deport illegal African migrants

The Government says forced removal of the migrants is no longer on the agenda.

The fate of Israel’s roughly 30,000 illegal African migrants has become a contentious issue with Israel’s immigration authorities are still looking to deport them.

An Anzac Day March in Darwin was led by women for the first time.

The Women's Veteran Network NT guide around 150 returned service people through the Darwin cenotaph.

The March was led by Army Corporal Sonya Newman who last year had her leg amputated after a number of compounded, service-related injuries.

Wally Scott Smith will retired today after a seventy-eight year career protecting the Martin Place cenotaph.

In 1937 Smith was accepted into Tank Corps but an emergency surgery stopped his army career so he began cleaning the Martin Place cenotaph and was eventually promoted to chief attendant.

Smith was so dedicated he escaped hospital twice to fulfill his duties. He received a special mention at the Martin Place service today and was presented a gift from the Anzac day Trust. Smith says he has enjoyed every minute and offered his all to those affected by war.

Queensland is reportedly responsible for up to sixty-five percent of the total loss of native forests in Australia.

This comes after an area about seven times the size of Brisbane has been cleared from twenty-fifteen to twenty-sixteen.

Climate Council spokesman Professor Will Steffen says Queensland is responsible for 19 million tonnes of greenhouse gas pollution in 2015.

The Palaszczuk Government has reinstated the Ready Reading Program, scrapped six years ago, in a bid to improve NAPLAN results.

Premier Palaszczuk said $1.5 million will be spent over three years to train 3,000 volunteers to hear children read in schools, which the opposition see as an insult to current volounters.

Opposition education spokesman Jarrod Bleijie has labeled the program for Queensland schools ‘a waste of money’.

The “man drought” in Australia is promoting the use of loaded terminology such as “leftover women” according to documentary maker, Mariona Guiu.

Miss Guiu’s documentary Singled Out found for every five women there is only one “available” man in Australia and the quality of male partners have not necessarily improved as women have become more independent.

Australian women are becoming accustomed to their “single existence” as the pressure to find an adequate partner is toxic and is made more difficult by societal norms and expectations.

A group of Aussie and kiwi travellers have lost their belongings after escaping a bus fire on the way to an Anzac Service in Gallipoli.

The 43 passengers were just four hours into their journey in Turkey when smoke started coming from the engines and they were told to get off.

Although they all escaped unhurt, many have lost their luggage including passports and mobile phones.