More than sixty percent of people who apply for the Disability Support Pension have their claims rejected.

The DSP costs the Commonwealth sixteen point three billion dollars a year, but in the last decade the number of new recipients has reduced from eighty-nine thousand to less than thirty-two thousand.

The Parliamentary Budget Office, said this has resulted from the eligibility criteria change which tests whether a person can do any work rather than reviewing a medical diagnosis.

New South Wales Police are under scrutiny for taser use after mentally ill man died in police custody.

Reports found only one taser was used on the thirty year old man, however there has been no confirmation of how many times or for how long he was tased.

The latest report from 2012 revealed a third of people tasered by police suffered from a mental illness, and three-quarters were unarmed.

Southport has been named as the worst spot in Queensland for car vandalism for the second year in a row.

According to figures from the RACQ, over forty claims for car vandalism have been made in Southport over the last three years.

RACQ Spokesperson, Kirsty Clinton, said some of the acts were for revenge, but most people return to their vehicles to find damage has been done.

A search was in progress on the Brisbane River after a man went missing at 4.40am this morning.

Three kayakers decided to turn around after heading upstream before the sixty-three year old man’s rowing companions noticed his overturned boat.

Acting Inspector Don Dunstan said to keep an eye out on the river and any CCTV footage from near the river in Toowong and West End would be appreciated.

Papua New Guinea’s government contracts with Catholic Church run health clinics are under review, as they are accused of not fulfilling obligations in providing family planning services.

Senior religious figures say they are respecting the “plan of God” in promoting the natural "ovulation method" of contraception, but this has angered healthcare professionals.

A thousand strong mob has beaten two suspected rapists to death in India, after the rape and murder of a five-year-old-girl in mid-February.

The men were reportedly dragged from a police station, by the mob before being publicly lynched.

There is rising concern for vigilantey-like violence within India, as such forty-two people have been arrested in connection to the lynchings.

The Royal Australasian College of Physicians has apologized to over twelve hundred students in Australia and New Zealand for the crash of their online doctors test.

All students, regardless of their progress in the test will be forced to re sit the exam at a later date, causing mass confusion and stress to students who were required to pay $1,800 to sit the test.

Up to five new species of fish have been collected from a haul of thousands caught in the depths of Australia’s Eastern Abyss.

Scientists on board the research ship, Investigator, caught the haul from ocean depths up to forty eight hundred metres during last years voyage.

More than 100 different species of fish are being examined at the CSIRO in Hobart to determine which are new to science.

The Queensland Government is accused of not properly disclosing spending and private sector contracts to public.

The Queensland Audit Office has launched an investigation into Government spending after five departments produced unreliable and confusing reports, stating Government spending lacked transparency.

The initial report blamed the inconsistency as a result of incomplete records, multiple systems and a lack of guidelines.