Coast company deployed for Greek firefighting duties
Sunshine Coast-based McDermott Aviation has started deploying a major aerial firefighting fleet in Greece.
It is the seventh consecutive year the company has supported
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Ballooning medical specialist fees next focus for reform
By Anthony Scott
Australia’s Health Minister Mark Butler has declared reducing specialists’ fees will be his next key focus of health policy reform.
Doctors are
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Hundreds of mysterious mass graves found in Sahara
By Julien Cooper, Maël Crépy and Marie Bourgeois
We have been on a years-long campaign of satellite remote sensing of the vast desert landscapes in Eastern Sudan.
This
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Ancient Chinese routine lowers blood pressure naturally
An 800-year-old Chinese exercise routine has been found to be almost as effective as medication in bringing down blood pressure.
A new study found adults with stage 1
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Wage growth steady despite inflation blow-outs
Wages growth is remaining steady in Australia despite growing inflationary pressure and geopolitical uncertainty.
The latest CommBank Wage Insights series, released this
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Tickets for Death of a Salesman now available
Aussie Hollywood actors Anthony LaPaglia and Alison Whyte will star in the 1940 Pulitzer Prize-winning classic Death of a Salesman at QPAC’s Lyric Theatre from August
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The right music can lift your exercise endurance
Listening to your favourite music can increase endurance during a workout by up to 20 percent.
A new study found that cyclists exercising with self-selected songs had a
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BP storage lease extended at Bulwer Island
BP has been granted a lease extension at the Bulwer Island facility at the Port of Brisbane to secure additional storage under Queensland’s fuel security plan.
The
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Inland Rail cuts put pressure on high maintenance highways
By Philip Laird
Every day, hundreds of trucks barrel along highways from Melbourne to Brisbane. Some B-triple trucks stretch to 36 metres or more, more than seven times
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One Nation surge is now being taken seriously
By Josh Sunman
One Nation’s surge can no longer be seen as a blip or an aberration.
As the results in the Farrer byelection showed, the right-wing populist party –
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