Brisbane secures 20-year green waste processing system
Brisbane City Council has secured a panel of five local operators to process the city’s green waste for the next 20 years.
The processing system will be the largest of
Read more4 February 2026
Billions of cigarette butts being dumped in public areas
Cigarette butts are the most littered item in Australia with 8.9 billion of them collected each year in clean-ups.
The latest Clean Up Australia Litter Report, released
Read more4 February 2026
Qantas cuts fares to $299 as more Aussies travel overseas
Qantas has slashed the price of its international airfares, as new data reveals Aussies are travelling overseas more – logging an increase of nearly nine percent last
Read more3 February 2026
Mortgage holders hit with interest rate rise
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) board has announced the expected 0.25 percentage points increase in the base interest rate, bringing the cash rate to 3.85
Read more3 February 2026
Business warns of ‘inevitable’ tax rises without reforms
A peak employer group has warned that tax increases are inevitable if the Federal Government does not undertake “fiscal repair” in its upcoming budget.
The
Read more3 February 2026
World-first cancer vaccine trial for childhood tumours
A world-first clinical trial in Australia will test cancer vaccines developed for children with advanced or treatment-resistant brain tumours.
The trials for what is
Read more3 February 2026
Pressure builds to repair broken Coalition agreement
By Michelle Grattan
Nationals leader David Littleproud easily saw off a token move to spill the party leadership on Monday. But he is now under immense pressure to reach
Read more3 February 2026
How much coffee can you safely drink?
By Clare Collins
Coffee first entered human lives and veins over 600 years ago.
Now we consume an average of almost two kilos per person each year – sometimes with
Read more3 February 2026
Low volumes of homes for sale driving price increases
Low supplies of houses for sale are keeping upward pressure on prices despite conditions that would normally dampen demand.
Real estate research group Cotality estimates
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Application lodged for Catholic co-ed Windsor high school
Brisbane Catholic Education (BCE) has lodged a development application to build a 910-student co-ed secondary school in Windsor.
The proposed school, in Grafton St, is
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