The Australian Capital Territory (ACT) could become the first jurisdiction in Australia to make menstrual products free for people experiencing period poverty, under draft legislation to be released on Wednesday. 

The Period Products (Access) Bill, would require the territory government to provide period products free of charge at designated locations. 

Brazil’s health ministry website was hacked on Friday, taking down several systems with it including one with vaccination information, which has been said to have been stolen and deleted. 

Canada is setting aside $31.2 billion to compensate Indigenous children and families in foster care for suffering discrimination. 

Officials said on Monday that it will start paying out once a protracted lawsuit is settled. 

The Queensland Police service is launching new separate inquiries into the disappearances of two Aboriginal women in 2013. 

23 year old mother Allison Bernard was last seen leaving a bar in the town of Coen in Queensland’s North before her disappearance in 2013, with no further evidence found.

A report released by the Real Estate Institute of Queensland has revealed Queensland’s residential property market median has climbed almost 2 percent since September this year.

It was found this year the Brisbane median house market also grew more than 15 per cent. 

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees has warned Australia’s Administrative Appeals Tribunal its processing backlog could reduce trust in the country’s asylum seeker program. 

The UN’s warning further outlined the issues of the asylum seeker system, in which asylum seekers often have to wait years for their claims to be resolved. 

One of Australia’s biggest disability service providers has apologised after incidents of violence, abuse and neglect in two of its group homes. 

‘Life without barriers’ which operates disability services around Australia and New Zealand with revenue at $750 million last year, fronted the disability royal commission to answer questions yesterday after four days of evidence from residents and their families. 

A UK court has cleared WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States to face espionage charges.

Assange is wanted by the US for publishing military documents in 2010, after which he fled to the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, before being transferred to Belmarsh Prison where he has spent the last two years. 

The Pentagon says it will not discipline any US troops over a drone strike which killed 10 civilians including seven children in Kabul in August. 

The US has already admitted the attack, which came as foreign forces tried to evacuate Kabul airport during the Taliban takeover, as a ‘tragic mistake’.