The NSW Government has chosen The Nature Conservatory, in partnership with Aboriginal and scientific groups to be the managers of the Nimmie-Caira project.

The 85,000 hectare site will be devoted to environmental restoration, with plans for low-impact grazing, ecotourism and carbon farming.

All profits made from these activities will go back into environmental restoration work on the property.

Rural Australians will be able to access the same range of products that city dwellers have with “Ebay Plus” launching at the end of next month.

According to Ebay’s Senior Director of Shipping, David Ramage, Ebay Plus is aimed at regular shoppers who have been put off by delivery fees in the past.

Ebay Plus has a $49 monthly subscription fee which includes shipping, giving rural Australians the same products without added fees.

Overnight, a teenage male has been arrested and charged following the lock down of The Lakes College, a school in North Brisbane.

Yesterday at 4pm, the school was forced into lock down after receiving a bomb threat via email.

Most students had left the campus by this time and Principal Simon Armstrong said the school would operate as normal today.

Rankin’s newsagent on Queen St Mall officially closed its doors for the last time.

The iconic store was the centerpiece of the mall for the past 35 years and more than six thousand people signed the petition to keep it open..

Theresa May, British Prime Minister is refusing to back reform of Northern Ireland’s restrictive abortion rules, after neighbouring Ireland’s successful vote to liberalise its laws.

Britain's women and equalities minister, Penny Mordaunt stated that the victory to legalise abortion in Ireland should now bring change to the north of the Irish border.

In Jakarta, the Indonesian Parliament passed new anti-terrorism laws last week in the wake of a series of bombings in Surabaya earlier this month.

The laws hand the police power to detain suspected terrorists for twenty-one days without charge, and an additional two-hundred days after being charged to gather evidence before handing the case to the courts.

More information on the Indonesian military’s involvement with these new laws will be expected within one-hundred days.

An Australian branch of an international cleaning company has been fined over $170,000 after numerous complaints from staff employed at the Melbourne Cricket Ground were received by the Fair Work Ombudsman.

Ombudsman investigators were examining exploitation of overseas workers employed at the MCG and found 11 staff were underpaid over $37,000 for cleaning work after several football matches throughout 2014.

The staff were employed through counterfeit contracts under the premise of being ‘independent contractors.’

Barnaby Joyce’s decision to feature in an exclusive interview with Channel Seven has sparked condemnation from several politicians.

As he is expected to receive $150,000 for the interview, many politicians have questioned if it is appropriate for parliamentarians to be paid for media interviews.

Much of the criticism stems from his previous requests for the public and media to ‘respect his privacy’ after his relationship with Vikki Campion was revealed in February this year.