Jakarta will return the five remaining members of the so-called Bali Nine drug smuggling ring — currently serving life sentences — to Australia, an Indonesian government minister has announced.

The former Greens MP has quit parliament in the wake of an affair with a staffer that breached Greens Party rules.

Several people have been arrested at a climate protest in Newcastle that involved hundreds of activists taking to the city's harbour in canoes and kayaks.

Australia is well on track to have its biggest year for mutton exports. China has been the nation's biggest customer.

The missile struck a military warehouse in the early hours of Thursday morning, sparking condemnation from world leaders who labelled the move as an escalation.