Australia’s inaugural Aboriginal child commissioner has labelled the increase in children being removed from their families as a national disaster.

Andrew Jackomos says his work in Victoria had revealed shocking and tragic stories of children in state care were denied access to family and their culture

More than 17,000 Indigenous children were reportedly living in out of home care in 2017 compared to just over 9,000 10 years ago.

A part-time cab driver has been fined $12,000 after pleading guilty to six charges of claiming to be a health practitioner.

George Zaphir mistreated terminally ill patients by claiming that he could cure cancer.

One of his victim’s niece spoke about how he told her terminally ill uncle that he had come to the right place and if he’d follow the treatment that the “tumour will grow out and fall off.”

After a spike in sexually transmitted infections across many age groups, a Queensland sexual health nurse is urging adults to follow teenagers and carry condoms in their wallets.

The number of over-50’s contracting STIs has nearly doubled in Queensland in the last four years according to the state's health statistics.

In 2013 there were 541 cases reported in that age group compared to 2017 where there were 1,078, but when looking at the under-20’s the rate of STIs had declined from 6,440 cases in 2013 to 6,011 last year.

Queensland motorists will no longer have to deal with confusing petrol prices as new laws ban retailers from showing discounted rates on display boards.

This regulation means fuel retailers across the state will only be able to display the full price of fuel available to all drivers.

From today retailers caught with discounted fuel prices on their display boards could face a fine up to $2523 for individuals and $12,615 for corporations.

The British Army’s alleged highest-ranking spy in the Irish Republican Army (IRA) has been arrested and is being questioned about his involvement in dozens of murders

Fred Scappaticci, the man understood to have been arrested had previously admitted to being a republican but stopped short of confirming claims about being an IRA informant.

Mr Scapaticci’s arrest is part of the investigation into the activities of current and former members of the police force, Army, MI5 and IRA.

The chief executive of US surfwear retailer Boardriders Inc is believed to be missing at sea after his boat washed up on a French beach. 

The French coastguard raised the alarm on Tuesday when Pierre Agnes’ sailboat was found on the country’s Atlantic coast.

Agnes sent a message to port authorities indicating that he was delaying his return due to harsh weather conditions and his beached boat was later found on a French beach, with air and sea operations now underway. 

Australia will have the best view in the world of the extraordinary event occurring in the sky tonight.

There will be a blue moon and total eclipse tonight which will result in a blue blood moon, the first of its kind to occur in 35 years.

The eclipse will 9:45 pm Brisbane time with the maximum eclipse scheduled to occur at 11:30 pm.

It is believed that over one million Australians have lost vision in one eye with many also at a great risk of vision impairment in both eyes. 

Joshua Foreman, a University of Melbourne PhD candidate said people who have lost vision in one eye need regular eye checks as diseases that have affected the first eye may also affect the second. 

Mr Foreman who works at The Centre for Eye Research Australia stressed how low vision or blindness in one eye can cause loss of depth perception and impair visual fields which can deeply affect patients through their everyday life. 

Brisbane’s greyhound population will be allowed outside without a muzzle under new proposed animal bylaws.

Currently, greyhound owners must keep their dogs muzzled in the Brisbane area unless deemed safe by a certified adoption program and their enclosure must receive council approval.

A spokeswoman for the Greyhound Adoption Program said dogs from their program didn’t require a muzzle but insisted the dogs should be leashed in public.