Mayors of rural towns in Outback Queensland are calling on Google Maps to update their services after the Town of Eromanga was plotted 85 kilometres away from its actual location. 

Safety concerns have also been raised about Google Maps suggesting ‘bizarre’ routes that direct tourists off main roads and into bushland. 

The RMIT ABC fact checker has looked into the reach of Rupert Murdoch's media empire amid calls by former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd for more media diversity.

Roy Morgan polling found that News Corp reached more than twice as many people each week than Nine Entertainment did through its print newspapers.

Brittany Higgins will be publishing a memoir of her experiences working inside Australia's halls of power, with half of the profits going to a rape crisis centre in Canberra which she says was a personal "lifeline" in the wake of her alleged sexual assault. 

Labor is pressuring the Morrison government  to allow more than 3000 Myanmarese citizens to stay in Australia once their visas expire.

The push comes after more than 700 civilians are estimated to have been killed in violent crackdowns since the February 1 military coup.

A voice actor who played Apu in The Simpsons has issued a public apology and says he regrets playing the role.

Hank Azaria, a white man, worked on the show for 10 years and voiced a number of characters including Apu, an Indian-American convenience store owner. 

Queensland's coronavirus restrictions are set to ease tomorrow from midday with state health officials to confirm the details this morning.

It's likely there will be no legal requirement to wear masks indoors when you are grocery shopping, taking public transport, or in restaurants and pubs when not eating or drinking.

Covid-19 has been detected in the princess Alexandra hospital ward 5D even after it had received a deep clean.

The hospital was locked down twice in recent months, after two workers in the 5D ward contracted the virus from a positive returned traveller.

Queensland Health is owed forty four million dollars in unpaid patient bills from people ineligible for Medicare.

A Queensland Health spokesperson said patient care was its top priority and no-one would be turned away from a public hospital, regardless of their health insurance situation.

Kalbarri in Western Australia has been described as looking ‘like a war zone’ after it was hit by cyclone Seroja on Sunday. 

The state’s emergency services have reported that 70% of structures in the rural town have been damaged in wake of the category 3 system. 

Previously declared endangered one-horned rhinos now have an upgraded population status of ‘vulnerable’. 

This follows a census of Rhino numbers in Nepal this year, where it has been found their numbers have increased from 645 to 752 since 2015.