92 nations have signed treaty banning cluster bombs.
Norway was the first nation to sign the Convention on Cluster Munitions last night in Oslo.
Britain, France and Germany also signed and are starting to destroy stockpiles of the munitions.
In an unexpected move, Afghanistan signed the treaty despite pressure from the United States, who has refused to support the ban.
What is a Cluster Bomb?
Cluster bombs are dropped from planes or fired from artillery guns which explode midair and scatter hundreds of smaller bombs.
Some of these bombs do not explode and instead act as landmines, which can explode years after a conflict has ended.
About one hundred thousand people have been killed or injured by these bombs since 1965.
You can read more at the Cluster Munition Coalition website.
Sex offenders will be relocated to homes in Townsville and Rockhampton prisons.
Queensland Corrective Services are going to spend six hundred and fifty thousand dollars developing houses on prison reserves for sex offenders.
The houses will be fenced and fitted with CCTV. Offenders will be under constant police supervision.
Hal Stone of the Capricorn Coast Community Safety Group said the decision is much wiser than letting sex offenders live among neighbourhoods, where families may feel unsafe.
“It would seem – so far about the proposal - that it would [be] more safe because it actually relocates these people into an environment where they're not in the community.”
The decision comes after controversy surrounding convicted pedophile Dennis Ferguson, who moved to the suburb of Carbrook and was driven out by angry residents five months ago.
Both the Federal Government and Federal Opposition have voted to continue logging koala habitat forests in New South Wales.
The Senate voted fifty one to six against a motion moved by Greens Leader Bob Brown which called to halt logging in any koala habitat forests in New South Wales.
Senator Brown said the government's logging was fragmenting the habitat of the koala and facilitating its road to extinction.
Australian entertainer Rolf Harris has apologised for his offensive comments towards indigenous Australians, saying he should have kept his mouth shut.
Mr Harris told Fairfax newspapers that Aboriginal children were never disciplined, and that indigenous Australians expected "other people to come in and clean up their mess."
The comment came as a response to a documentary Mr Harris had seen about indigenous accomodation in Uluru. He was promoting an illustrated book of his hit song “Tie Me Kangaroo Down Sport” which includes this verse:
Let me Abos go loose, Lew
Let me Abos go loose
They're of no further use, Lew
So let me Abos go loose
Altogether now!
Mr Harris has not sung the verse since 1960.
His comments drew the ire of prominent Aboriginal leader Lowitja O'Donoghue, however Ms O'Donoghue said as far as she was concerned as long as Harris apologised the matter was "fixed".
The sixth Young Designers' Market will be held at Southbank this Sunday.
Starting at 10 am, the market is showcasing up to seventy stalls including a range of fashion, jewellery and prints.
See what it's all about here.
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