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Coca Cola Amatil has sold Shepparton-based fruit and vegetable processor SPC for $40 million. Amatil purchased it for close to $500 million back in 2005. For the first time, an Australian has launched legal action against chemical company Monsanto, claiming that his cancer was caused by exposure to glyphosate.

Local councils across regional New South Wales say they desperately need more money for water storage infrastructure as they face dams running dry. Calls to look overseas at places where water storage is more efficient. Some of the worst cases of exploitation of so-called ‘Internet Brides’ appear to be happening on remote farms and stations. Women originally from south east Asia have told the ABC of how relationships turned abusive once they married Australian men.

Adani’s Carmichael coal mine is waiting on just one more environmental approval after its black throated finch plan was signed off earlier today. Conservationists says the approval process for the mine "stinks". And farmers and vegan activists talk about the online abuse they both receive.

Veteran psychiatrist Professor Gordon Parker is warning that there is an impending ‘break down’ of public hospital psychiatry services in Australia. And the University of New England has vowed to implement all recommendations of a Australian Human Rights Commission report into sexual assault and harassment. The university approached the commission after it was found to have the highest rate of sexual assault and harassment in the country.

Research has found there has been no decline in the consumption of red meat in Australia. This is despite increased militant vegan activism. However, farmers say they feel intimidated and harassed by activists' actions. And the Margaret River Pro kicks off today, despite high profile protests of international surfers about the safety of the competition with shark attacks last year.

Aboriginal activist and poet Kathy Mills says she believes progress has stalled on reconciliation between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians. As celebrations for Reconciliation Week begin around the country, the Northern Territory elder says Aboriginal people have been repeatedly let down. Sean Gordon says it’s been a ‘long two years’ of inaction on the Uluru statement, but with Ken Wyatt appointed as the first Aboriginal Minister for Indigenous Affairs, he is feeling optimistic about intentions of the statement being recognised.

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says Adani's environmental approvals for the Carmichael coal mine will be finalised within three weeks. In Rockhampton locals turned out for a celebratory "Go Adani" rally organised by the city's council. And concerns prime agricultural land in New South Wales is being lost to develop solar farms.

Political pressure mounts around two outstanding environmental approvals for the Queensland Carmichael coal mine. And Tasmania’s capital Hobart is growing at almost twice the rate of Launceston. There are fears the population is stagnating in Launceston and there’s a movement to try and turn that around.

Changes to geographical boundaries for Medicare bulk billing will benefit doctors working in the bush, according to the Rural Doctors Association. And the West Australian government responds to the inquest into Aboriginal Youth Suicide in the Kimberley.

More than 50,000 Australians have contracted the flu so far this year, a massive increase on last year. To counteract this, the Tasmanian government has put in place a plan to allow pharmacists give flu jabs to children over ten. But the Royal College of General Practictioners say children should not be vaccinated in what they call a retail environment.