Residents of the Sunshine coast are preparing to settle in for a long haul protest movement in response to a the possible development of a large sand mine in the region.

The proposal for a 105 hectare sand mine in Forest Glen is currently in limbo, with reports that soil testing in the area has been completed but no official action has been taken.

A small Australian town has explored the concept of a new style of green cemetery to be used as its official town burial site.

The plans proposed by the Mission Beach Community Association suggested using trees as grave markers instead of headstones, and burying people vertically for economy of space.

The group claim that it’s environmentally the best option for Australia, and could even have a positive impact on the tourism industry.

Israel has begun issuing deportation notices to asylum seekers from African countries.

On Sunday the first notices were distributed to men in the country without families, with up to twenty thousand people from Eritrea and Sudan being asked to leave within sixty days.

The notices were part of a new ‘voluntary removal’ scheme from the Israeli government to settle refugees in Rwanda, with the possible of more forceful measures taking place in the near future.  

Eight turkish soldiers have been killed in the continuing conflict against Kurdish radicals in Northern Syria.

Turkey launched an offensive operation two weeks ago in an attempt to clear Kurdish militants and religious extremist out of Syria’s Afrin district.

The Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yildirim has promised retaliation and increased force in his public statements.

One of Australia's largest Egg Production companies invested tens of millions of dollars into a new free range egg farm in order to cope with Australia's changing dietary ethics.

Sunny Queen spent over a decade planning the new facility in order to cope with increased demand for free range eggs over caged.

The company also opened a new meal solutions factory in Ipswich that focusses on repurposing misshapen or cracked eggs that won’t be put up for commercial sale.

Ecologists believe Australia’s 5,000 kilo meter ‘dingo fence’ is no longer the best defence for agriculture or the environment.

The belief came after researchers such as Biologist Dr David Paton, said the predator population on much of mainland Australia remained unbalanced.

A similar program conducted in the United State’s that returned wolves to the habitat created in Yellowstone National Park to reduce the numbers of deer saw astonishing environmental changes.

An alleged Queensland police whistleblower’s misconduct trial is set to get underway at a Gold Coast court in coming weeks.

Former police sergeant, Rick Flori, was accused of leaking footage in 2012 to the media, which featured police beating a handcuffed man in the basement of a Gold Coast police station.

Flori resigned from the Queensland Police Service in November after 28 years in the job, and said he had "no confidence" in the force's management.

There’s bad news for anyone looking to spend their evening on the couch with a rental video this weekend, after Brisbane’s last video hire store decided to closed its doors.

The Network Video store in Oxley will shut its doors next week, marking the beginning of a new streaming era.

The owner of Oxley’s Network Video, Brenton Snell, was still in good spirits, and even made a dig at the streaming giants, saying  Australia’s poor internet service means there remains “a few years” for remaining video shops.