Scamming restaurant owners with fake glass findings
A group of people are travelling around Brisbane, scamming restaurant owners for free food by claiming to have found glass in their meal.
Birds Nest restaurant owner, Marie Yokoyama, accuses three women of planting glass in their meals, using intimidating and rude behaviour, demanding the food for free.
The Restaurant and Catering Industry Association says they are aware of a few cases of similar experiences.
Queensland Government still supporting Adani
Labor may be hardening its stance on Adani, but in Queensland, the party is still in support of the coal mine.
During question time on Tuesday, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk, says that she will support the jobs that come with the mine.
The premier also believes that her Government will support Adani, if it financially stacks up.
First person charged with new sexism laws in Belgium
A Belgian man has been charged $4,760 AUD under a law criminalising sexism in public places.
He was charged after verbally abusing a female police officer and the act was deemed to be a “serious violation of the dignity of a person because of their sex.”
A spokesperson for the public prosecutor’s office says this was the first time the law has been used to prosecute someone and the evidence against the man was very compelling.
UberX drivers are being underpaid
A new report reveals Uber X drivers in Australia are working for half the minimum wage for transport workers.
The Australian Institute Centre for future work has calculated the average income for employees across six cities is less than $15 an hour.
Director Jim Stanford calculated through his model that Uber X drivers make approximately $7 from a projected $20 drive.
Drawing a line between Australia and East Timor
Australia and East Timor are set to sign a historic maritime border treaty, at the United Nations in New York.
The treaty will define the barrier between the two countries in line with international law, instead of at the edge of Australia’s continent.
The border will divide the Greater Sunshine gas field, estimated to be worth fifty three billion dollars, with eighty percent of the field falling in East Timor’s economic zone.
UNICEF report shows Indian child marriages have nearly halved
The number of girls getting married in India has nearly halved within a decade, leading to a global decline in child marriages.
UNICEF reports that 25 million child marriages were prevented worldwide within the last decade with the largest reduction in south Asia.
UNICEF’s principal gender adviser, Anju Malhotra, says that any reduction is welcome news, but there’s still a long way to go.
North Korea willing to hand over nuclear weapons
North Korea is open to relinquishing their nuclear weapons if they begin direct talks with the US.
Kim Jong-Un is willing to freeze the nuclear and missile programmes, after a visit from senior South Korean politicians.
The North Korean leader is set to meet South Korea’s President Moon in late April for the first summit in more than a decade.
Russian military plane crash kills thirty people
More than thirty people are dead after a Russian military transport plane crashed in Syria.
Technical malfunctions are thought to have caused of the crash, but a special commission is being launched to investigate.
The crash follows air strikes and a suspected chlorine attack, which have intensified fragile conditions in the region.
NAPLAN report reveals no improvement in results
A NAPLAN report reveals no improvement in decades of results, sparking calls for a review of the testing.
The report by researcher John Ainley analyses ten years of NAPLAN data showing no change in maths and reading amongst students.
Children from disadvantaged families, regional areas and those with learning difficulties are struggling the most to improve literacy and numeracy calling for possible reviews by the New South Wales Education Standards Authority.
Queensland marriage laws to be amended to allow gender change
Queensland marriage laws are being amended to allow people to change their gender without having to divorce their partner.
Under section 22 of the Births, Deaths and Marriages Registration Act, Queenslanders, who have undergone sex reassignment surgery, have to divorce their partner to have their gender legally recognised.
By the ninth of December, it will be illegal to refuse to change a person’s gender based on marriage.