A series of cruel wildlife attacks on Western Australia’s South Coast that left pelican’s stabbed, turtles hung and hooked, and a seagull skewered.

While authorities have not ruled out that some of the incidents could have resulted from human littering, the Western Australian Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions is investigating whether the injuries were deliberate or malicious.

Victorian councils could start feeling the effects of China’s ban on recycling imports, as waste collection firms begin to put a stop to their services.

The state government has been in discussions with waste collection companies and recycling processors to find a solution, after the Chinese ban on low-grade and contaminated waste was imposed on January 1st.

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has warned mobile phone users to avoid returning missed calls from overseas numbers, in the hope that consumers will avoid being scammed.

The ACCC’s deputy chair Delia Rickard said the consumer watchdog hotline received 50, 000 reports of similar scams in 2017.

Ms Rickard said scammers make their money by enticing people to call back a premium number similar to those used by psychic hotlines and phone sex lines.

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk is calling on Adani to prove its finances, and show that the multi-million dollar project is meeting its targets.

The criticism follows Federal Opposition Leader Bill Shorten accusing the mining heavy weight of promising ‘fake jobs’ to the north-Queensland public.

Ms Palaszczuk said the project’s finances needs to stack up, just the same as any other resource company, and hopes the promises of jobs is forthcoming.

The rescue effort continues in Taiwan as 67 people remain missing following the 6.4 magnitude earthquake that hit on Tuesday night leaving 7 people confirmed dead.

The popular tourist city of Hualien where the quake hit is home to about 100,000 people, with about 40,000 homes left without water and about 1,900 without power since Tuesday.

5 magnitude aftershocks could rock the island nation for the next two weeks.

DNA research performed on Britain’s oldest, almost complete human skeleton has revealed the man who lived in England’s southwest over 10,000 years ago had dark skin, blue eyes and dark curly hair.

The skeleton which has been nicknamed Cheddar Man was unearthed in 1903 from the Cheddar Gorge in Somerset county.

The findings suggest the lighter skin pigmentation now seen as typical of Britons is far more recent than previously thought.

A damning report from the Closing the Gap Campaign Steering Committee accused the Federal Government of effectively abandoning its policy to reduce inequalities in health, education, and employment between Australia’s First Peoples and non-indigenous Australians.

The report indicated six of the policy’s seven key measures for inequality were not ontrack to be addressed by their 2020 target date.

Rangers in the Kuitpo Forest, in Kangarilla, South Australia have spotted a Southern Brown Bandicoot for the first time in nearly 4 decades.

The small marsupial grows to roughly 30 centimetres, and is found on southern fringes of Australia’s coastline where their populations have dwindled due to deforestation and growth in predator numbers.

A vote by the Logan City Council has seen their CEO sacked, with seven votes supporting her termination and five against.

Although no reasons were given publicly the decision comes after a matter listed in the Industrial Court involving CEO Sharon Kelsey and Logan City Council.

The council has said its decision was in relation to Ms Kelsey’s six month-probationary period after which it was decided that she would not be appointed CEO.