Legislation will be passed in Queensland today to prohibit jurors from accepting evidence of sexual assault victims being drunk or intoxicated as a reasonable explaination for perceived consent. 

Last year, the Queensland Law Reform Commission conducted a review of the definition of consent in state legislation and made recommendations to amend the consent and mistake of fact criminal code. 

The Queensland Farmers’ Federation is calling on the State Government to implement co-funding opportunities for farmers and other businesses to undertake a range of safety improvements after new statistics showed Queensland had one of the highest numbers of on-farm deaths in the country.

The Federal government has stepped in to compensate abuse survivors commonly known as Fairbridge children.

Fairbridge Farm Schools were set up to house migrant children from 1913 until 1982, exposing children to years of abuse.

Labor MP Chris Hayes, who served for the parliament for 16 years, will not run for the next federal election due to his medical condition. Last year, he collapsed in Parliament and was admitted to hospital.

In 2017 he spent 15 days in a hospital after suffering several broken ribs, a broken arm and internal injuries following a motorcycle crash.

NASA unveils Mars helicopter Ingenuity, an experimental helicopter designed to fly in Mars’s thin atmosphere.

The 1.8-kilogram helicopter will  rise 3 metres in the air on its first attempt to fly, with a series of longer flights planned if successful.

The Mars helicopter Ingenuity is set to take off from the surface on the 8th of April.

Cairns State High School students that protested racism at their school last week have been told to stay home.

Last thursday a relief teacher allegedly used a derogatory term in class which prompted children to peacefully protest the school.

Protestors are disrupting construction work on the Adani Carmichael Rail Corridor in Central Queensland this morning saying that the mines’s climate effects will cause more frequent and extreme natural disasters like those we are already experiencing.

A state memorial will be held at the Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne today to commemorate the life of music industry legend Michael Gudinski.

Gudinski is known for founding the music label Mushroom Records and Frontier Touring.

Managing director of Volkswagen Australia, Michael Bartsvech  says he is not confident to supply Australians with the company’s electric vehicles because of poor local regulation.

Australians cannot buy the models popular in North America and Europe where they are open to clean new energy unless laws on CO2 emissions are introduced.