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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
Read more 17 September 2024
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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
Read more 17 September 2024
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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
Read more 17 September 2024
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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
Read more 17 September 2024
Woman on e-scooter. | Newsreel

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
Read more 16 September 2024
Brisbane international terminal makeover

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
Read more 16 September 2024
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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
Read more 16 September 2024
Woman using asthma inhaler. | Newsreel

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
Read more 16 September 2024
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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
Read more 16 September 2024
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More than 520 reported data breaches in six months

Data breaches in Australia are their highest level in more than three years and jumped almost 10 percent in the first six months of this year. New statistics from the
Read more 16 September 2024