The EU has drafted new artificial intelligence rules to rein in ‘high-risk’ uses of the technology. 

Officials say this ‘risk-based approach’ aims to balance the need to protect rights, such as data privacy, against the importance of innovation. 

The federal government has torn up four deals between Victoria and foreign nations, including the state's Belt and Road Initiative agreement with China. 

This is the first time the federal government has used new powers that allow it to cancel agreements between state governments, local councils, public universities and other nations. 

The Chinese embassy says the move is unreasonable and provocative. 

Red Bloom poetry and The Australian Botanic Garden Mount Annarn have teamed up to promote the Poem Forrest Prize. 

Two statues in Brisbane's CBD have been defaced with Black Lives Matter statements following the guilty conviction in the George Floyd trial yesterday. 

The defaced statues are of Scottish poet Robert Burns and former Queensland Premier Thomas Byrnes. 

Renters across rural Queensland are being forced to live in tents and move back in with family members due to low rental vacancy rates. 

Leading property data provider CoreLogic shows migration to Queensland last year was up 90 per cent and is a factor in housing shortages.

Queensland Housing Minister Leeanne Enoch says accusations she is failing to meet social housing targets are misleading. 

However, a report from the Productivity Commission, the Australian government’s independent research body, shows that the Queensland government has only met about a quarter of its average yearly social housing target. 

Indonesia's navy is searching for a missing submarine with 53 people on board. 

The submarine was conducting a torpedo drill north of Bali but failed to communicate the results of the drill. Contact with the vessel was lost early Wednesday morning. 

Foreign Minister Marise Payne says Australia will provide whatever support it can to Indonesia.

A team of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have developed a plastic that can degrade by 98 per cent in home compost within a few days.

The new material uses enzymes to chew the plastic down to non-toxic molecules, eliminating microplastics. 

Prime Minister Scott Morrison will attend a climate summit, helmed by U.S. President Joe Biden, tomorrow. 

The Leaders Summit on Climate will bring together the leaders of the 17 countries responsible for 80% of global emissions and global GDP.