A former 7-Eleven operator has been fined almost $200 000 for underpaying employees.

Jason Yuan ran two franchises in the Brisbane CBD and ripped off 21 employees of more than $30 000.

This comes after a joint Fairfax - Four Corners investigation revealed a systemic underpayment of wages and doctoring of payroll records throughout 7-Eleven stores.

Violent transphobia in Kyrgyzstan is leading LGBT individuals to seek refuge in Russia.

The unlikely destination although not overtly accepting, is less dangerous than their home country where discriminatory legislation introduced in 2014 banned homosexual relations.

Social workers from Kyrgyz Indigo - a LGBT organisation and shelter - say corrective rape is common and especially prevalent in the transgender community where 84% of individuals have experienced physical violence and 35% are victims of sexual violence.

Brisbane house prices have gone up two hundred and ninety-nine percent since 1986.

The findings also found housing affordability has decreased considerably since the 1980s but have started to stabilize since 2010.

Out of the the eight capital cities, Brisbane came second in terms of the increases, only being beaten by Sydney. 

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the social media conglomerate is going through ‘a broad philosophical shift’ in response to criticism and new legislation.

The thirty-three-year-old internet mogul apologised in front of the US Senate Commerce and Judiciary for his company’s lack of preventative measures against data-mining company Cambridge Analytica during the 2016 presidential campaign.

Allegations are being investigated into the defrauding of $1.3 million by Walking Wounded, a charity established to assist Afghanistan war veterans.

Veterans and their families expressed concerns that the money was not being used for its stated claims such as rehabilitation and counselling.   

A complaint was left with the Queensland Police Service in February about the charity’s founder, Brian Freeman.

NATO Ambassadors are describing attacks in Syria as ‘genocide’ in response to chemical weapons use in the country, resulting in world leaders to identify a ‘need to respond’ and lay blame for the attacks.

In response a US-drafted UN Security Council investigation proposal was voted on, but vetoed by Russia as they presented their own resolution that was later rejected by the UN.  

Talks are continuing over international concerns on intervention as the world waits to see if the US responds with military action.

The Murray-Darling Basin Authority has attacked a new project to reduce the size of the Menindee Lake in New South Wales.

The plan involves reducing evaporation in the lakes by shrinking them and letting the lakes run dry more often.

The project has been welcomed by irrigators to save water but is being met with resistance by local communities.

An authority trusted to manage the $266 million of support for the Hazelwood Power Station to transition away from coal-fired power generation is unable to provide information on how much money has been spent.

The Victorian State Government established The Latrobe Valley Authority (LVA) to manage the assistance fund after the Hazelwood power station was shut down last year.

Karen Cain, the spokesperson for LVA says while the entire $266 million had been allocated, it was impossible to say exactly what remained.