World-first fixed-wing response to fire disasters
Australia’s largest private natural disaster responder has bolstered its capability by adding fixed-wing firefighting aircraft to its arsenal.
Sunshine Coast-based
Read more13 June 2025Rural
Natural phages ‘shield’ an alternative to antibiotics
A natural alternative to antibiotics is the focus of ground-breaking research under way in New Zealand.
A team from the University of Canterbury (UC) are working with
Read more12 June 2025
A month each year lost to unnecessary meetings
With productivity making the headlines, new research has shown Australian employees waste up to three hours each week in unnecessary meetings.
Office supplies company
Read more11 June 2025
Autonomous tractors to crack Aussie nut industry
A multi-million-dollar project will look to retrofit Australia’s on-farm tractor fleet into autonomous vehicles, initially driving efficiency in the labour-intensive
Read more9 June 2025
Australia’s first satellite to mobile text service launched
Telstra has won the space race to be the first provider to offer a satellite to mobile text messaging service in Australia.
The technology, which effectively uses
Read more4 June 2025
Billion-dollar hit to agricultural production in 2025-26
The drought in southern Australia is expected to lead to a drop in Australia’s agricultural production of more than $2 billion in the next financial year.
The latest
Read more3 June 2025
Push to localise supply chains a risk to global GDP
Global moves to on-shore manufacturing and production could undermine, rather than strengthen, supply chain resilience, according to the OECD.
In its latest Supply Chain
Read more3 June 2025
Hidden cost of Aussie food production highest in world
The first stocktake of Australia’s $800 billion food system has revealed we have the highest per capita hidden costs of any food sector in the world.
The CSIRO report
Read more2 June 2025
Miners lead 8.6 percent drop in company profits
The profits of Australian mining companies fell by almost 30 percent last financial year, according to the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data.
ABS Head of
Read more30 May 2025
Off-farm income no longer barrier to disaster relief
More regional Queensland business will be able to access disaster relief funding with the definition of primary producer changed to include agricultural support
Read more29 May 2025