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Mineral processing plant, gold, Northern Territory, Australia. | Newsreel

Critical tax incentives for net zero transition

New production tax incentives have been passed in Federal Parliament in an attempt to boost the local green energy economy. Federal Resources Minister Madeleine King
Read more 11 February 2025
Doctor looking at health data. | Newsreel

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 more 11 February 2025
Mother and child with support worker. | Newsreel

Housing crisis impact widens to staff trying to help

Almost two thirds of frontline organisations supporting homeless Australians are reporting staff burnout as a result of increasing demand for services, with many staff
Read more 11 February 2025
Woman full after a meal. | Newsreel

Scientists pinpoint brain’s meal-stopper neuron

Researchers in the United States have zeroed in on a specific neuron in the brain which sends the signal to stop eating. The team at Columbia University found the
Read more 11 February 2025
Brisbane ferry and Story Bridge, Queensland, Australia. | Newsreel

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 more 10 February 2025
Woman with a doctor. | Newsreel

$573m bump over five years for women’s health

More than half a billion dollars will be invested to lower the cost of women’s health care. Federal Health Minister Mark Butler said the $573.3 million package, to be
Read more 10 February 2025
Para athlete. | Newsreel

$4m Para-sport unit to remove barriers to Brisbane 2032

A new $4.3 million Para-sport unit will be created within the Queensland Academy of Sport (QAS) in an attempt to double the pipeline of Paralympians in the lead up to
Read more 10 February 2025
Bay of Fires, Tasmania. | Newsreel

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 more 10 February 2025
Hobart harbour, Tasmania, Australia. | Newsreel

Healthy Hobart shines in new national index

A new measure for healthy living has identified Hobart as the healthiest city in Australia, with Brisbane hovering around the national average, but declining. The Monash
Read more 10 February 2025
Glossy black cockatoo. | Newsreel

537ha linked and protected in Sunshine Coast hinterland

A vital link between two nature reserves in the Sunshine Coast hinterland is now protected with Council purchasing the 108ha block. The $2 million acquisition of two
Read more 10 February 2025