Brisbane City Council has reduced the number of signs allowed for electoral candidates.

Candidates in state and local elections will now only be permitted to have 50 election signs across their electorate, and residents will have to register sign locations with the council. 

Queensland will remain the only state in Australia where dolphins can be bred for entertainment following animal activist’s recent call to action. 

Animal justice party candidate Lindon Cox has received over 1200 signatures on a petition to the state government to ban the breeding and importation of the mammal. 

More than 50 migrants are feared drowned off the coast of Tunisia, as their boat heading to Italy sank on Monday. 

Drowning events have been occurring off the coast in recent weeks, as the frequency of trips from Tunisia and Libya to Europe have increased due to good weather. 

Australian and New Zealand farmers are campaigning in support of minority Baha'i families in northern Iran, following mass seizures of farmland by the government. 

An Iranian court order outlawed ownership of farmland for Baha’i families, leaving dozens of families internally displaced and impoverished.

Australia’s peak doctor’s association is calling on the federal government to launch a major campaign to combat vaccine hesitancy. 

The calls follow new data which outlined 30 per cent of Australians do not plan on receiving the COVID-19 vaccine, and that 1.5 million vaccines are currently waiting to be administered in Australia. 

Thousands of Australian school students are expected to participate in nationwide climate protests tomorrow. 

The students will be protesting the Australian government's use of gas and coal, in what is expected to be the largest national school strike since the pandemic began. 

A North Queensland MP is defending a local hospital against accusations of mismanagement by the state government. 

Minister for Health Yvette D'ath yesterday announced the North West Hospital and Health Service (NWHHS) board would have to defend its management of hospitals and services around Mt Isa.