Uncle Joe Geia and Uncle Graham Brady. | Newsreel

Uncle Joe’s song helps light up path to Treaty

The “nation of no alphabets” took centre stage as leading First Nations songwriter Uncle Joe Geia featured in a special event in Brisbane last week. QUT’s
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Call for Financial Rights Service to support vulnerable

Queensland community groups are calling for a holistic integrated service that supports people in financial hardship. A new report from the McKell Institute has put
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Centre to fast-track clean energy apprenticeships

A new Queensland centre of excellence will fast-track training in skills needed to deliver clean energy projects. The TAFE Queensland Centre of Excellence – Clean
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Paddington plan leverages Games venues

A proposed Paddington development has one eye on the Brisbane 2032 Games, with 31 short-stay suites in the plans. The mixed-use development aims to maximise the
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Plans to harvest the sea to build greener cities

Researchers are looking to fast-track the use of marine-based bio-materials in building materials to aid the transition to net zero and help the Brisbane Games deliver
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Why are we overlooking personal e-scooters?

By Ferdinand Balfoort and Stephen Greaves Recent decisions by the Melbourne City and Sunshine Coast councils to end contracts with operators of shared e-scooters have
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Explore Brisbane Airport’s new international terminal

Brisbane Airport’s International Terminal will be overhauled as part of a multi-billion-dollar transformation of the precinct. An almost four-minute video (watch
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Willpower overrated as a habit changer

New research has described willpower as “fragile, unreliable and weak” with only a fleeting impact on avoiding negative behaviour. University of Toronto researcher
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Dyspnoea’s breathtaking cost to Australian economy

Shortness of breath is costing the Australian economy $12 billion every year. A new study from The George Institute for Global Health in Sydney has looked at the cost of
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Risky play ‘vital’ for children’s development

Playground equipment that encourages risky play is part of a “biological need” in childhood development, new research has concluded. The research team at Dartmouth
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