Senior Victorian police officer and head of Victoria Police’s ethical standards body, Brett Guerin, resigned after having links to racist comments on social media.

Mr Guerin was exposed by Fairfax Media after they reported the racist YouTube comments made under the same name as a character from the 1970 film Airport.

In a statement released yesterday, the Victorian Police said that Mr Guerin’s resignation was also linked to an ongoing Independent Broad-based Anti Corruption Commission investigation.

Over the course of today the country is getting to know its new deputy Prime Minister.

The fifty-three year former newspaper editor is quickly coming under scrutiny for notably homophobic comments he made in 1993.

McCormack wrote in an editor’s letter in his Wagga Wagga paper that homosexuals were “sordid” and “unnatural”.

A local Brisbane artist is putting two years worth of her landscape artworks on display for the public in Gatton.

Meredith Howse’s art style is known as Romantic Sublime, which sees nature as the most sublime object and aims to invoke emotions of awe and wonder in observers.

The art collection will be on display at the Lockyer Valley Art House in Gatton until the tenth of March.

This is a free event.

Brisbane bus drivers were ordered to turn off their air conditioning while waiting to start their routes this past weekend.

Bus drivers are required to switch off their engines after sitting for 30 seconds and managers ensured that these rules were not broken despite the weekend heat.

Brisbane City Council shadow transport spokesman, Jared Cassidy, claimed this policy is poorly conceived and endangers workers.

The residents of Papua New Guinea have been warned to prepare for aftershocks following the 7.5 magnitude earthquake, which struck early Monday morning.

Authorities have advised residents to be aware of potential landslides and to avoid multi-storey buildings.

The Geological Survey say there is no danger of a tsunami and no deaths yet confirmed.

British Labour leader, Jeremy Corbyn, has planned to finalise his position on Brexit with a different approach to Prime Minister Theresa May’s.

If elected, the opposition leader potentially plans to cull future trade deals with Australia as he says he wishes for the UK to remain in the European customs union.

Despite the outcome, as soon as Brexit is formalised, Australia will seek a free trade deal with the UK.

The fracking issue is bubbling up again in the Northern Territory, with some of Australia’s leading scientists penning an open letter to the Northern Territory government.

The collection of thirty-one climate scientists and doctors have advised that the government should not permit the opening up of new gas fields through hydraulic fracturing.

The letter is also addressed to the Territory Government's fracking inquiry panel, recommending new shale gas fields are a method with too much pollution risk inherently involved.

Michael McCormack has officially been chosen as the new Nationals leader, becoming Australia’s new Deputy Prime Minister.

Mr McCormack has been promoted to Cabinet and will take over the Infrastructure and Transport Ministry.

Previous Nationals leader, Barnaby Joyce, formally quit Monday morning and will now sit as a backbencher.

Severe storms caused emergency crews to stage eleven swift-water rescues in southeast Queensland Monday night.

Some areas recorded over 60mm of rain within an hour.

Emergency Services Minister Craig Crawford said that he is sick and tired of seeing reports of emergency crews risking their lives to rescue people who try to drive through flood waters.