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Population growth prompts expanded Prep enrolments
More than a dozen schools across south-east Queensland will expand Prep enrolments next year in response to rapid population growth.
Brisbane Catholic Education (BCE)
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Business, Community, Environment, Federal, Government, Manufacturing, Technology, Transport
$4 million boost for Brisbane battery technology
A Brisbane company has received a $4 million grant to commercialise its new battery technology and boost Australia’s manufacturing capability.
AnteoTech, which
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29 October 2024
Business, Technology
First Apple Intelligence features released
Apple has released the first set of features in its AI-supported Apple Intelligence system.
Users of the iPhone, iPad and Mac computers can access the tools through the
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29 October 2024
Business, Community, Energy & Resources, Environment
Aussies know mining is needed for net zero transition
The majority of Australians acknowledge mining harms the environment, but still believe it is critical to achieving net zero.
A new CSIRO survey of more than 6400 people
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29 October 2024
Business, Community, Environment, Rural
Small growth in national forest footprint
The size of Australia’s forests grew by a little over 0.5 percent in the five years to 2021.
In its latest report, the Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource
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28 October 2024
Business, Community, Events, Support & Services, Transport
Hundreds in convoy through Brisbane this weekend
Hundred of trucks will rumble through Brisbane this weekend in a fund-raising convoy.
Around 1000 trucks will travel from Larapinta to Redcliffe as part of the Brisbane
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28 October 2024
Education, Schools
Population growth prompts expanded Prep enrolments
More than a dozen schools across south-east Queensland will expand Prep enrolments next year in response to rapid population growth.
Brisbane Catholic Education (BCE)
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Business, Education, Research & Science, Technology
Science edges toward a new periodic table element
Just when you thought you had remembered them all, science seemed headed towards a new element on the periodic table.
Scientists at Lund University in Sweden have
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29 October 2024
Community, Education, Health, Research & Science
Speaking two languages slows Alzheimer’s
Speaking two languages has been found to slow the onset of Alzheimer’s disease by up to five years.
A new study by Concordia University, published in the
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28 October 2024
Community, Education, Research & Science, Support & Services
Global cost of gambling set to top $1 trillion
An international study has found Australians gamble more than any nation on earth and that the global impact of gambling was worse than previously thought.
A Lancet
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28 October 2024
Business, Education, Research & Science, Rural
New bee facility will help combat destructive mite
Southern Cross University has opened a new Bee Research and Extension Lab focussed on managing the devastating Varroa destructor mite.
Varroa poses one of the biggest
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Community, Federal, Government, Support & Services
Australia Post delivers best-in-world ranking
Australia Post has been recognised as one of the best postal services in the world, the first time it has achieved the honour.
The latest Universal Postal Union’s
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29 October 2024
Brisbane 2032, Business, Community, Government, Infrastructure, Local, Sport, Support & Services, Technology
Global triple treat for Sunshine Coast innovation
A Sunshine Coast marketing campaign has picked up multiple international awards.
The video-led campaign, which showcased the region’s high-tech capabilities, won two
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28 October 2024
Community, Environment, Government, Safety, State
Victorian AI trials on early bushfire detection
Smoke-detecting Artificial Intelligence (AI) is being trialled in Victoria in a bid to improve bushfire early warning systems.
Forest Fire Management Victoria (FFMVic)
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28 October 2024
Government, Queensland Election, State
Your State Government Members of Parliament
Queenslanders headed to the polls on October 26 to elect their State government representatives for the next four years.
Based of votes counted to date, the LNP won
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27 October 2024
Government, Queensland Election, State
New Queensland Government as LNP wins majority
Queensland has a new State Government as voters elected the LNP to lead the state for the next four years at the weekend election.
LNP leader David Crisafulli will be
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26 October 2024
Economy, Government, State
Housing activity lifts Queensland up state rankings
Incoming Queensland Premier David Crisafulli will inherit a state on the rise with Queensland improving in the latest State of the States report.
While Western Australia
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28 October 2024
Business, Economy, Employment, Professional Services
Australian workers the most stressed in APAC
Australian workers are the most stressed in the Asia-Pacific region, which includes traditional workaholic nations like Japan.
A new report from human resources
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24 October 2024
Business, Economy, Employment
Low literacy impacts vast majority of businesses
Low worker literacy and numeracy is impacting the productivity of nearly 90 percent Australian businesses.
A survey by peak employer body the Australian Industry Group
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23 October 2024
Business, Economy, Finances, Retail
Time running out to get on Christmas lists
If you haven’t completed your Christmas shopping list yet, you are at risk of being in the minority of Australians.
A survey by e-commerce technology provider Shopify
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22 October 2024
Economy, Finances
Government global debt blows out to $100 trillion
Global public debt is expected to pass $100 trillion for the first time this year and be approaching 100 percent of Gross Domestic Product by 2030.
The latest
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18 October 2024
Arts, Community, Education, Research & Science, Sport, Support & Services
Potential in combining public art and urban sport
City planners are being encouraged to leverage the popularity of the urban sports culture to activate public art and help address social issues.
University of Sydney
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27 October 2024
Arts, Events
La Boite Theatre celebrates its Centennial
La Boite Theatre will mark its 100th year in 2025 as Australia’s longest, continuously running theatre company with a lineup of special storytelling and events,
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23 October 2024
Arts
Lost story by Dracula author found after 134 years
A short story by Dracula author Bram Stoker, has been rediscovered after an amateur historian found a story written by Stoker in an 1890 Christmas edition of the Dublin
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22 October 2024
Arts, Film & Television
Screen Queensland incentive scheme has positive FX
Queensland’s screen entertainment post-production industry continues to grow with six new projects approved since July under an industry incentive scheme.
Coming off a
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21 October 2024
Arts
Brisbane season for Jesus Christ Superstar
Rock musical Jesus Christ Superstar will arrive in Brisbane in June next year.
Promoters announced today the awarding-winning Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber production
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21 October 2024
Business, Community, Environment, Federal, Government, Manufacturing, Technology
CSIRO leads regional focus on plastic waste
Environmental entrepreneurs from across the Indo-Pacific are being brought together in an attempt to solve the issue of plastic waste.
Australia’s national science
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29 October 2024
Community, Education, Health, Research & Science
One-leg balancing the key to healthy aging
The ability to stand on one leg has emerged as one of the best indicators of long-term health.
Mayo Clinic researchers say leg balance is a better “telltale sign” of
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28 October 2024
Community, Environment
More Australian animals added to the red list
Almost 750 Australian animals and plants are now on the endangered list after an international register updated its data.
Australian Conservation Foundation National
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28 October 2024
Business, Community, Environment, Government, Local, Tourism
Brisbane improves global sustainability ranking
Brisbane has increased its global sustainability ranking over the past 12 months.
The 2024 Global Destination Sustainability (GDS) Index ranks the Queensland capital as
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28 October 2024
Community, Education, Health, Research & Science
A third of asthma cases linked to small particle exposure
More than 30 percent of new asthma cases globally have been found to be linked to long-term fine particle exposure.
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
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28 October 2024
Community, Health, People
Health divide widens in Australian communities
The health divide is widening in Australia, with new research showing almost three quarters of people dying from preventable diseases lived in disadvantaged
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29 October 2024
Community, Health, People, Support & Services
Workers need more support with assisted dying system
The majority of health care workers believe the nation’s Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) system is difficult to navigate, making challenging end-of-life discussions
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29 October 2024
Appointments, Government, Local, People
Baker heads north as new Sunshine Coast Council CEO
Experienced local government administrator John Baker is the new CEO of the Sunshine Coast Council.
Sunshine Coast Mayor Rosanna Natoli said Mr Baker, who will start on
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27 October 2024
Appointments, Federal, Government, People
New Australian ambassadors to France and Italy
New Australian ambassadors to France and Italy were among a host of diplomatic appointments announced today.
Foreign Affairs Minister Penny Wong also announced new High
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23 October 2024
Community, Education, Health, People, Research & Science
Social happiness a factor in dementia risk
A person’s social environment is increasingly becoming a risk factor in the battle against dementia.
A study from the UNSW Business School has found that as the
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22 October 2024
Government, Perspectives, Queensland Election, State
State was all dressed up but not sure where to go
By Shane Rodgers
There are plenty of ways to interpret the Queensland State Election result.
One is that the LNP squandered a potential landslide win because of a
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28 October 2024
Arts, Music, Perspectives
Golden music age fading into the night
By Shane Rodgers
Few would argue that the 1960s was a genuine turning point decade. It was when the term teenager really entered the language, and music broke through
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28 October 2024
Business, Legal, Perspectives
Options to assist children into the property market
By David Hughes, Emile McPhee, and Paige Edwards – McCullough Robertson Lawyers
Australia is gripped by a well-publicised housing crisis, which disproportionately
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Business, Community, Energy & Resources, Environment, Federal, Government, Perspectives
Carbon Tax take 2. Is now the right time?
By Ross Garnaut
Australia now has a government and parliament wanting timely transition to net zero. We have a government and parliament wanting to build Australia as
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23 October 2024
Government, Perspectives
Three reasons America’s democracy is under threat
By Bill Wyman
As the United States election draws closer, a scandal-plagued candidate may be returned to the presidency. Why is it still so close?
For just a few weeks
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22 October 2024