A human’s taste for alcohol is monkey business
It’s always cocktail hour for our primate cousins, with new research showing chimpanzees consume the equivalent at least two standard alcoholic drinks every
Read more23 September 2025
Shiver marks a first for Australian films
The first Australian narrative feature film to shoot in Antarctica will share in more than $12 million worth of funding for new local programs.
Screen Australia will
Read more22 September 2025
Suicide-by-chatbot puts Big Tech in liability hot seat
By Brian Downing
It is a sad fact of online life that users search for information about suicide. In the earliest days of the internet, bulletin boards featured suicide
Read more22 September 2025
80 new trucks set Queensland Fire Department record
The Queensland Fire Department is undertaking its largest single fleet procurement program with 80 new trucks on order.
The new Type 2 Queensland Fire and Rescue trucks
Read more22 September 2025
Cardboard replaces cement in new building material
Australian engineers have developed a building product based on cardboard, with has a 75 percent lower carbon footprint than concrete.
Study lead author Dr Jiaming Ma,
Read more22 September 2025
Former QIC director back as King takes Chair
The Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) has four new board members, including a new chair.
State Treasurer David Janetzki said incoming Chair Andrew King, a former
Read more22 September 2025
Deforestation the major driver of a drier Amazon
Deforestation is the major cause of the drop in rainfall across the world’s largest rainforest.
A new study, involving researchers from Brazil and Germany, has
Read more22 September 2025
Gen Z biggest victims of “Bestie Tax”
Young Australians are owed hundreds of dollars from mates, but are too timid to ask for it to be repaid.
New research estimates we are owed, on average, $423 by friends,
Read more22 September 2025
Yatala rezoning set to put new film precinct up in lights
It’s action for plans to create Australia’s most advanced movie production precinct on the Gold Coast.
The State Government has enabled the rezoning of over 51
Read more22 September 2025
177,000 fewer migrants added to Australian population
Australia’s population increase though overseas migration fell by more than a third in the 12 months to March.
The latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics
Read more22 September 2025