Drug users facing incarceration will now be able to swap jail time for rehabilitation with the reinstatement of the Queensland Drug Courts.

Queensland Attorney-General Yvette D’Ath said that the relaunched court would not be a “soft option” saying that the offenders’ prison sentence will only be suspended if they undertake the treatment order.

Currently, there will be only one Drug Court operating in Queensland based in the Brisbane Magistrates Court building.

French dairy group Lactalis, has admitted it may have produced salmonella-strained milk since 2005, with the food safety crisis bound to grant the company a hundred million euro debt.

Poland’s Senate has approved of a controversial bill making it illegal to accuse the Polish state of complicity in the Nazi Holocaust.

The New South Wales opposition leader has become the most recent person to throw support behind the campaign to have the Indigenous flag fly from the Sydney Harbour Bridge 365 days a year.

The Australian Greens are confident of winning the marginal federal seat of Batman in the upcoming by-election.

Torres Strait residents who evacuated their homes after floods on a far north Queensland island are demanding better defence from flooding.

Oxley’s Network Video will be shutting its doors after eight years. The owner of the store, Brenton Snell said he spent hours consoling customers after announcing on social media that his business will close in March.