A melanoma patient is working with Cancer Council Australia and the Melanoma Institute Australia to get more aussies using umbrellas to protect themselves from UV.

After being diagnosed five years ago, Damien MacRae has taken sun protection very seriously by slip-slop-slapping and bring a “mobile shade” of a UV blocking umbrella.

Mr MacRae is concerned that so many Aussies aren’t using umbrellas or parasols on an everyday basis as they reduce the risk of skin cancer.

Star wars may be closer than we think as experts warn intergalactic combat is a matter of ‘when’ not ‘if’.

Academics from Australia, the UK and US are collaborating on the Woomera Manual which will outline military and security laws by 2020.

Melissa de Zwart, the dean of law at the University of Adelaide says space-based assets are increasing in value, but legal regimes that govern outer space activity are currently very unclear and are important to document as there are more competitors in the space race than ever before.

Indian housewives are beating down tradition and discrimination to study to be Hindu priests.

Seventy-two year old, Sailja Joshi is the oldest female student at a school in west India says “host families have more trust in female priests because they perform rituals sincerely.”

Men vastly outnumber women in religious roles, despite there being nothing in Hindu holy books banning women to do so; rather it has been centuries of convention that have dictated only high class men who can become priests.

A woman who conned her family and friends out of almost $42 000 for fake cancer treatment has been given a three month jail sentence.

In 2013, nineteen year old Hanna Dickenson told her parents she was gravely ill with cancer and required an overseas trip for treatment or she would die within months. Three family friends donated a combined $41 700 for her trip. Dickenson then used the money for partying, drugs and an unrelated overseas trip.

A man and his cat were rescued off Moreton Island after their tinnie capsized.

The two men were fishing when the boat capsized, requiring the Westpac Lifesaver Helicopter to rescue one of the men and his cat.

The rescuer, George Lavett, said in his fifteen years of being an aircrewman, this was the first time he’d rescued a cat.

Brisbane could have its first, permanent outdoor cinema in the city’s northside.

The proposed cinema in McCaskie Park at Kelvin Grove will have a 2.7 metre by 5.4 metre screen.

Council Field Service Chairman, Peter Matic, says it’ll be available for hire but didn’t say if there would be an admission cost or how much the cinema would cost ratepayers.

Brisbane band frontman George Sheppard has attacked the Commonwealth Games organisers saying his band, Sheppard, were offered “peanuts” to perform at the opening ceremony.

The band known for their breakthrough hit “Geronimo”, turned down the gig after being offered a “very minimal fee”.

Mr Sheppard says if they performed they would’ve paid a “honorarium fee”, which meant they would’ve lost money for performing at the opening ceremony.