Moves to cut red tape in construction industry
Queensland builders will have reduced financial reporting and licencing obligations under changes to the state’s building regulations.
State Housing and Public Works
Read more11 February 2025Business
Turnover heats up with summer temperatures
A scorching December led to a more than 10 percent jump in business turnover in the energy sector that month.
The latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data shows
Read more11 February 2025
Critical funding to enhance health sector’s cyber defences
A Sunshine Coast business has boosted the region’s cyber-security credentials, securing a multi-million-dollar Federal grant to help keep the nation’s health sector
Read more11 February 2025
Can the PM win an exemption from Trump’s steel tariffs?
By Michelle Grattan
The Albanese Government is set to mount a major effort to win an exemption from a proposed 25 percent tariff on steel and aluminium imports to the
Read more10 February 2025
50 cent investment returns $180 million to passengers
Public transport use across South-East Queensland jumped by almost 20 percent across the six-month trial of 50 cent fares.
Queensland Transport Minister Brent Mickelberg
Read more10 February 2025
Australia’s Top 10 beaches revealed. See the photos
Tasmania has the best beach in Australia, according to Tourism Australia’s 2025 list of the nation’s Top 10 stretches of sand.
Tourism Australia Managing Director
Read more10 February 2025
Prototyping facility the missing link in manufacturing
Australia is missing a national prototyping network which help would keep local ideas, innovation and entrepreneurs onshore.
Science & Technology Australia (STA)
Read more10 February 2025
Increased supply lifts Brisbane CBD office vacancy rates
Brisbane’s city office vacancy rates passed 10 percent in the second half of last year, as new supply came online.
Property Council Chief Executive Mike Zorbas said
Read more7 February 2025
Bird flu eradicated from Aussie flocks, but H5 threatens
Australia has been declared free of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI), as another strain of bird flu threatens.
The Federal Government has advised the World
Read more6 February 2025
New proton battery safer and greener than lithium-ion
Australian scientists have developed a new rechargeable battery which uses protons, making it safer and more environmentally friendly than lithium-ion
Read more6 February 2025