Sustainability reporting. | Newsreel

OECD releases global corporate sustainability snapshot

Global companies are improving their commitment to sustainability, despite less than a third releasing relevant information. The OECD’s recently-released Global
Read more 30 October 2025
Team of manual workers examining housing project while working at construction site.

Housing home truths reveal low confidence levels

Queenslanders are among the most pessimistic people in the country when asked about Australia’s ability to overcome the housing crisis. A new national housing
Read more 30 October 2025
Old couple on a walk. | Newsreel

Study urges focus on longer walks, not step totals

Regular walks of more than 10 minutes may be more beneficial than the much-publicised 10,000 steps a day target. New global research, led by the University of Sydney and
Read more 30 October 2025
Inflation target remains elusive - Newsreel

Inflation soars to outside RBA target range

Rising electricity prices drove the annual inflation rate over 3 percent and outside the Reserve Bank’s target range, putting at risk any interest rate cut next
Read more 29 October 2025
Bvlgari 18K gold diamond necklace. | Newsreel

Lost and rare items waiting in the departure lounge

An $11,000 Bvlgari 18K gold diamond necklace is among the lost treasures being sold through Brisbane Airport’s annual auction. Brisbane Airport Media & Corporate
Read more 29 October 2025
Australian Federal Police Commissioner Krissy Barrett. | Newsreel

Crimefluencers target teen girls in “twisted” gamification

Australian Federal Police Commissioner Krissy Barrett addressed the National Press Club in Canberra today (Oct 29). Here is an edited excerpt of her speech: Some of this
Read more 29 October 2025
Storm in Brisbane. | Newsreel

Sunday storms deemed “significant’ by Insurance Council

Sunday’s wild storms that wreaked havoc across south-east Queensland have been declared a Significant Event by the Insurance Council of Australia (ICA). ICA CEO Andrew
Read more 29 October 2025
Group of young people. | Newsreel

5 charts that show the desperate plight of youth

By Intifar Chowdhury Australia is becoming increasingly unequal. The story is unmissably generational: young Australians today face a tougher reality than their parents
Read more 29 October 2025
Traffic Brisbane. | Newsreel

Tolerance for commuting grows as travel times top an hour

The average Aussie is now spending more than hour commuting to and from work each day, with travel times busting the 60-minute mark over the past three years. New data
Read more 29 October 2025
Jessica Alba and Tom Hopper. | Newsreel

Jessica Alba and Tom Hopper film The Mark on Gold Coast

Hollywood stars Jessica Alba and Tom Hopper are on the Gold Coast with filming of spy thriller The Mark under way. Screen Queensland CEO Jacqui Feeney said the Highland
Read more 29 October 2025