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Orica's Koorangang Island. | Newsreel

Extra $432 million to support renewable hydrogen

More than $400 million has been granted to a renewable hydrogen project in New South Wales. ARENA CEO Darren Miller said Orica’s Hunter Valley Hydrogen Hub (HVHH) was
Read more 7 July 2025
Bore water. | Newsreel

No clean water in Queensland town since December

A Central Queensland community which has not had access to drinkable water for more than seven months will see $18 million spent upgrading its water
Read more 7 July 2025
People have lunch in orchard. | Newsreel

Plate filling up at Coast’s premier food and drink festival

Some of the biggest events at this year’s signature Sunshine Coast food and drink festival have already sold out, but organisers are confident there is still plenty on
Read more 7 July 2025
Online sale on mobile phone. | Newsreel

Ghost stores rise up in the online marketplace

Australian consumers are being duped by an increasing number of ‘ghost stores’, where overseas companies pass themselves off as local operations. The Australian
Read more 7 July 2025
Rural firefighter battles bushfire. | Newsreel

Looking to nature to better prepare for disasters

A North Queensland trial is one of four under way across the country to test nature-based defences against natural disaster. The First-Nations led cultural fire
Read more 7 July 2025
Queensland Premier David Crisafulli. | Newsreel

Queensland’s push to host Quad meeting

Queensland will lobby to host a future international Quad meeting to leverage relationships with the key Indo-Pacific trading partners. Premier David Crisafulli,
Read more 4 July 2025
Artist's impression of upgraded Sunshine Coast Stadium. | Newsreel

EOIs now open for Brisbane 2032 stadium upgrades

The Sunshine Coast Stadium upgrade is among the first Brisbane 2032 venues to be put out for tender. Expressions of Interests for work on the stadium, in the Kawana
Read more 4 July 2025
Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie and Federal Infrastructure Minister Catherne King,.

Work starts to find best stadium site within Victoria Park

Geotechnical surveys will begin within days to determine the best site in Victoria Park to build the Brisbane 2032 main stadium, which now will be partially funded by
Read more 3 July 2025
Buranda train station, Brisbane, Australia. | Newsreel

Buranda final piece of QR accessibility upgrade

The final station makeover in Queensland Rail’s largest ever series of accessibility upgrades has been completed. Buranda station, in Brisbane’s inner-south, has
Read more 3 July 2025
US President Trump with his tariffs chart. | Newsreel

Fewer tariff headlines, but July 8 deadline looms

By Peter Draper, Kumuthini Sivathas and Nathan Howard Gray US President Donald Trump’s 90-day pause on implementing so-called “reciprocal” tariffs on some 180
Read more 2 July 2025