The RSPCA is receiving a growing number of complaints about pet owners posting videos of animal abuse online according to a spokesperson.

The comments followed the recent charge of a 17 year old, Central Queensland woman with animal cruelty after she filmed herself repeatedly kicking her dog and then posted it online.

RSPCA representative Michael Beatty, stated that while the amount of content was disturbing, the upside was that the likelihood of people being charged with animal cruelty offences is increased when evidence is posted online.

For the first time in history, an unaccompanied adult woman was allowed to enter a professional football match in Saudi Arabia.

A United States company that processes Australian pineapples came under fire recently for allowing the fruit to rot on Queensland farms.

Kraft Heinz’s Golden Circle factory remained open for an extra 3 weeks during Christmas to process excess fruit, however upset consumers as they neglected to open their Brisbane factory earlier to allow more fruit.

The wastage was due to an unusual boom in harvest, and forced farmers to leave “hundreds of tonnes” of pineapples to rot.

A Palestinian summit responding to the US recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital is set to be boycotted by fundamentalist political movements.

A missile was detonated near civilians in Syria’s Idlib yesterday, at a camp for displaced citizens from the neighbouring Hama province.

The missile strike was declaimed as a major violation of a recent peace accord agreed between Russia, Turkey and Iran.

The report from AL Jazeera states that many Syrians believed the violence to be part of a leverage game before another political meeting between the countries.

A north-west local council has used treated sewage to trial biofuels to boost development.

Cloncurry Shire Mayor, Greg Campbell, and his team have trialled an assortment of crops to test what can be grown in the harsh climate of western Queensland using the treated effluent.

Councillor Campbell said the outback town has “huge potential as far as irrigation goes, and it’s the first step to show that it can produce”

The price of Australian roads is a costly one, according to new findings by the Productivity Commission, and is set to only increase with the coming years.

According to the Australian Government’s independent research and advisory body, the average vehicle is charged more than $1300 by the state and federal bodies each year, with the largest component of that fee being the 40 cents tax paid on every litre of petrol.

Australia’s relationship with the Pacific region is under fire, as the Prime Minister of Samoa expresses his disappointment of a Federal Government frontbencher’s criticism of China’s Pacific aid programs.

Senator Fierravanti-Wells, the Minister for International Development and the Pacific, accused China of building “roads to nowhere” and “useless buildings” in the island region.

A property in Queensland’s coastal town was allegedly bought for protesters to use as a base for their fight against coal giant, Adani.

Property records indicate the land was purchased by Brighter Future Solutions, who are believed to be linked to activist group Frontline Action on Coal.

The group denied comment, but are currently involved with protesters in a bid to hinder Adani’s $16.5 billion coal mine.