South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill promised to increase the states renewable energy target from 50 percent to 75 percent by 2025.

Perth based company Carnegie (Car-nay-gee) Clean Energy has been granted $3 million by the South Australian government to build a two MegaWatt battery storage system in Adelaide to improve the quantity and efficiency of energy generation in the state.

Northern Territory Horticulturist Chris Nathaniel has high hopes his new avocado breed will be help solve Australia’s summer avocado shortages.

Australia’s most popular breed, the Schuller avocado, fruits between Mid-January and March, whereas Nathaniel’s Calypso avocado does so between December and February.

Nathaniel has been developing the plant for more than a decade and is optimistic 2018 will be the first year that the trees will be grown commercially.

The saga of Macquarie Street continued after Shadow Planning chairman, Councillor Jared Cassidy, said he will bring a motion of debate against the development in the upcoming City Planning Committee.

Residents have been resisting development applications over the past six years and are worried the addition of this 73 unit, 16 storey complex, originally planned at 11 stories, would heavily impact on the street’s public amenity.

The search for missing Brisbane rower Mark Roome continued today with a focus on recovering his body.

The sixty-three year old was reported missing by his rowing companions at 4:40am on Wednesday after they became separated due to windy conditions. His vessel found overturned near West End.

Shortly after 2pm on Wednesday, divers investigating an "anomaly" on sonar found several small items on the bottom of the river believed to belong to Mr Roome.

In an update on our earlier Zedline, the Nigerian military have rescued 76 students and recovered the bodies of two others after 90 schoolgirls went missing after an attack by Boko Haram on a village in Nigeria’s Yobe state.

The status of the other 12 students is still unknown.

Authorities are yet to officially comment on the attack or the schoolgirls’ recovery.

Bali beaches are being inundated with garbage as plastic pollution continues to increase in the tourist hotspot with hotel workers cleaning up the beaches each morning.

Indonesia contributes 16 percent of the global plastic pollution into the ocean as seasonal winds from December to March push the rubbish onto Bali’s south-westerly facing beaches.

Indonesia’s lack of recycling worsens the pollution problem disrupting the tourist trade and affecting local businesses as tourists are less inclined to visit the area.

Senior Liberals have rushed to discredit former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, after he said Treasurer Scott Morrison was “wrong” for suggesting slashing Australia’s immigration program would result in a $5 billion hit to the economy.

Abbott provoked the rebuke from the former Immigration Minister after proposing Australia's immigration intake be cut from 190,000 to 110,000, in spite of evidence Australia’s optimum migration levels are between 160,000 and 210,000 people.

All Federal Government agencies, business and Not-For-Profit organisations with more than $3 million in turnover are required to notify the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner and affected individuals if personal data is lost, stolen or leaked.

Health providers and Businesses that trade in personal information must disclose privacy breaches regardless of worth or income.

Orion Springfield Central has sparked controversy among shoppers with its plans to renovate the already dog friendly precinct by extending its food court to include a pet-friendly dining deck.

In an attempt to dismiss shopper’s suggestions that a pet friendly initiative would be unhygienic, a spokeswoman for the Australian company Mirvac said Orion’s pet friendly initiatives were created abiding by Queensland Government pet inclusion laws.

Subject to Ipswich Council approval, staged works are expected to commence mid-2018.