Government

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
Turtle being rescued, Gold Coast, Australia. | Newsreel

Marine hospital first of its kind in Southern Hemisphere

The first wildlife hospital of its type in the Southern Hemisphere will be established at Sea World on the Gold Coast. The State Government has committed $10 million for
Read more 2 July 2025
Amber Shuhyta. | Newsreel

Shuhyta new Illicit Tobacco and E-cigarette Commissioner

Canberra public servant Amber Shuhyta is Australia’s new Illicit Tobacco and E-cigarette (ITEC) Commissioner. Previously the Assistant Secretary, Primary Care
Read more 1 July 2025
Queensland ambulance. | Newsreel

Billion-dollar bump ramps up Ambulance capability

The $1 billion State Budget boost to the Queensland Ambulance Service will see 600 new paramedics and 170 extra ambulances on the streets over the next four years. State
Read more 1 July 2025
People in remote store Australia. | Newsreel

Cheaper essentials delivered for remote communities

Essential groceries in more than 70 remote Australian communities will be cheaper from today through a new Federal subsidy scheme. Federal Minister for Indigenous
Read more 1 July 2025