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Electric trucks being charged/ | Newsreel

Billion-dollar upside to onshoring cleantech

A move from a “dig and ship” to a “mine and make” economy could generate $215 billion in revenue and create 53,000 jobs in Australia by 2035. A new report from
Read more 8 May 2024
New robot skills developed by the University of Texas - Newsreel

New robot skin to revolutionise carer industry

Robots with flexible human-like skin are a step closer following a breakthrough by researchers at the University of Texas. The research team developed a “first-ever”
Read more 7 May 2024
Qantas plane in the air.| Newsreel

Phantom flights cost Qantas $120m

Qantas will pay a $100 million fine and re-pay customers $20 million after admitting it misled consumers by advertising tickets for flights it had already decided to
Read more 7 May 2024
Beef week - farmers urged to trumpet sustainability credentials - Newsreel

Farmers urged to promote sustainability credentials

Australian farmers have been urged to more proactively tell their sustainability stories to lessen the risk of tougher legislative requirements in the future. McCullough
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3D objects beamed into business meetings

Your next Teams meeting could have an extra dimension to it, with 3D video conferencing looming large on the tech horizon. A Cornell University doctoral student has
Read more 7 May 2024
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What Taylor Swift can teach us about Olympic stadiums

By Shane Rodgers There was something very curious about two sets of economic data released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics in the past couple of weeks. They
Read more 7 May 2024
Brisbane river and botanic gardens. | Newsreel

Brisbane poised to be regional powerhouse

Brisbane has multiple advantages over other Australian capitals, as it eyes an economy that is tipped to approach $300 billion within a decade. A State of the City
Read more 4 May 2024
Woolloongabba skyline | Newsreel

Comment on bigger picture for Woolloongabba

With any major redevelopment of the Gabba now off the table, the State Government has started community consultation on the broader development plan for
Read more 4 May 2024
Section of Grenfell Tower burnt in 2017. | Newsreel

State’s vulnerable sitting on cladding ‘time bombs’

Queensland still has 800 “ticking time bombs” waiting for remedial building work, almost seven years after the danger of combustible cladding grabbed global
Read more 3 May 2024
Graphic showing Australia connected with the world. | Newsreel

New risk-based approach to foreign investment

A new risk-based approach to foreign investment will see more scrutiny of investment proposals around critical infrastructure, minerals and technology and a more
Read more 3 May 2024