The Northern Territory Government will soon reach the deadline for an inquiry into mining practices and fracking in the state that could see the practice banned.

Many members of the Northern Territory public called on the government to ignore conclusions that fracking could go ahead with minimal risk, and said that fracking is not safe, not trusted and not wanted.

An anti-immigration, far right leader has had a decisive victory over his liberal opponent in Europe.

Milos Zeman, the Czech Republic’s populist president, called for referendums on the Czech Republic’s membership of the EU and Nato, and has the potential to tilt politics in an anti-western direction.

The outcome followed a campaign in which Zeman, who had carved out a reputation as a fierce critic of Islam, painted his opponent as weak on immigration.

Sensitive information about military bases and spy-outposts in the US, including their location and staffing, came risk of exposure by soldiers who used the fitness tracking app ‘Strava’.

The app allowed people to share their exercise online with others and record exercise routes, which involved uploading data visualisation maps of where people had been.

Military analysts discovered that military personnel who used the app had created visualisation maps that were detailed enough to potentially pose a security risk.

The federal government proposed a crackdown on foreign political donations which means that donors who give less than $5 per week will have to sign statutory declarations to ensure they are valid and legal donors.

Progressive activist group GetUp criticised the proposal as they believed the declarations would damage revenue streams of minor parties and grassroots groups.

If the new laws pass, failure to comply will result in 10 years imprisonment or a fine of $210,000.

Ipswich schools have an opportunity to share in millions of dollars' worth of sports gear as part of a new competition run by supermarkets.
 

For every $10 spent at Coles, customers will receive one Sports for Schools voucher to go in the running for their school to win more than 800 items of quality sports gear.

World Champion athletes Sally Pearson and Usain Bolt joined forces to encourage schools to sign up to the program and help kids get active.

Queensland’s largest Euthanasia advocacy group have attempted to survey local politicians in a push to bring assisted dying onto the states agenda.

Dying with Dignity Queensland are intending to survey Queensland MP’s on their positions on assisted dying, with the intention of bringing talk of voluntary euthanasia into the national diaslogue and normalising it’s political discussion.

The group renewed their efforts after Euthanasia was legalised in Victoria last year, proclaiming eighty percent of the public currently support the proposed changes.

Malcolm Turnbull unveiled a new defence policy and strategy that aims to make Australia one of the top 10 arms exporters within the next decade.

The policy is aimed to create more jobs for Australians, but the plan has been criticised by World Vision Australia’s chief advocate Tim Costello, who said that we would be “exporting death and profiting from bloodshed”.

Priority markets that have been identified for Australian arms exports include the Middle East, the Indo-Pacific region, Europe and North America.

A suicide bombing has killed nearly one hundred people in Afghanistan on Saturday afternoon.

A member of the Taliban drove an ambulance rigged with explosives into a crowded metropolitan area in the capital of Kabul, outside foreign embassies and government offices.  

The blast killed 95 people and injured 158 others.

Russian police arrested the country’s opposition leader after he organised and joined nationwide protests demanding more democratic presidential elections.

Opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, shared a series of tweets over the weekend showing the police raiding his Moscow office before arresting him at the protests.

President Putin is expected to win another six-year term as president in March, however Navalny’s supporters hope the election will be undermined by a low voter turnout.