Brisbane city council has joined a global movement called Love Food Hate Waste, and are encouraging residents to reduce their food waste.

Brisbane residents alone throw away 97, 000 tonnes of food into landfill each year, which is equivalent to one in five shopping bags.

The initiative will be broken up into six, week long challenges designed to help educate people how changes in their routine could help reduce their contribution to landfill.

The Prime Minister is issuing tax cuts to middle-income earners, with big businesses at the heart of his bid to win back voters.

Malcolm Turnbull will be in Toowoomba today delivering his first major speech of the year on his government attempting to cut taxes of major businesses, cutting company taxes to 21 percent and a coalition push for personal tax cuts.

This is a clear sign Mr Turnbull has his sights on the next Federal election which is set to be in the next 12 months. 

Iranian women have been photographed defying the country’s laws by having their hair uncovered and waving headscarves on the end of sticks in a new campaign speaking out against degradation.

The campaign which has emerged on social media began in December when a young woman was photographed standing on top of an electricity box, long hair uncovered and waving her headscarf.

The woman in question, Vida Movahed was arrested but was released on Monday and there has since been an explosion of posts on social media of young women following in her footsteps.

The false alarm missile alert issued earlier this month in Hawaii sent the nation into a state of widespread panic and took authorities 38 minutes to correct.

Administrator Vern Miyagi and executive officer Toby Clairmont stepped down yesterday after a report including the agency’s mistakes were released to the public.

The individual who sent the alert has also been fired, officials from the agency confirmed.

The ACCC has received more than 3000 complaints about businesses charging more for goods when customers were using card.

This is despite the Federal Government imposing a ban on excessive surcharges last September.

The ACCC will investigate several alleged breaches including by Sunshine Coast Coffee store Wild Horse Mountain Coffee Stop and well-known cafe chain Le Bon Choix.

A new strategy is to be launched to help improve the lives of more than 2.5 million Australians who have asthma.

National Asthma Council member Dr Jonathan Burdon said this strategy will provide a plan for patients, healthcare professionals, researchers and the government.

The National Asthma strategy aims to reduce health, social and economic impacts of the condition on everyday Australians with a comprehensive approach.

In a move to improve the communication to passengers during train delays, Queensland Rail plans to introduce “terminology which is reflective of the disruption”.

This will include describing disruptions such as a “mechanical fault”, “track fault” or “signal fault” instead of using the word “operational” when telling passengers the cause of delays.

The word “operational” seems to have quietly slipped from Queensland Rail’s twitter being used last on January 9th.

Indigenous housing funding is under threat as figures from the Department of Housing showed more than 400 Indigenous people are on the waitlist for social housing on Palm Island.

Overcrowding is still a major issue across Queensland’s Indigenous communities with an estimated average of five people living in each room of a standard three-bedroom house.

Ida Richardson knows the pain of living without a home after being forced to move from place to place almost every month with her two young children.