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Queensland seeks closer investment ties with Indonesia

The Queensland Government is holding talks with Indonesian officials this week as part of efforts to attract resources investment. It has also announced a trade mission
Read more1 September 2026
St Lucia, Queensland, Australia: University of Queensland

UQ forced to act over $11 million in staff underpayments

The University of Queensland has signed an Enforceable Undertaking with the Fair Work Ombudsman (FWO) after 16,382 staff were found to be underpaid. The underpayments
Read more1 September 2026
Lee Kernaghan Performs At The Tamworth Country Music Festival

Funding deal secured for Gympie Music Muster

The Queensland Government has announced three-year guaranteed funding for the Gympie Music Muster. The country music festival, held at the town of Gympie north of Noosa
Read more1 September 2026
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‘Stop the boats’ message masks true immigration picture

By Alan Gamlen Australia has spent a quarter of a century selling the world a simple idea: crack down on boats at the border, and people will believe you have migration
Read more1 September 2026
Female automation machine engineer student study and inspection control robot machine in university workshop. ai robot technology new innovation trend of manufacturing in industry 5.0

AI may be ‘biggest transformation in our lifetime’

By Michelle Grattan Artificial intelligence (AI) should help Australia achieve its long term productivity target, while having “profound” effects on the labour
Read more1 September 2026
Maryanne Humphries

Sharing one document can save families heartache

By Maryanne Humphries As a registered nurse now overseeing clinical teams in the aged care sector, I know exactly how emotionally challenging it can be for families who
Read more1 September 2026
snowfields

Snow resorts facing big challenges as season is cut short

The Australian snow industry is being hit with a “severe lack of snow” that has led to early season shutdowns and a crisis for resort businesses. In a statement
Read more31 August 2026
Internet searching

AI content crawling is completely changing web search 

By Dana McKay and Damiano Spina For 30 years, the world wide web has run on a surprisingly profound social contract: most sites are free for search engines to access,
Read more31 August 2026
Trump and Albanese

Most Australians still want to stick with US alliance

By Samuel Garrett In 1951, Australia and the United States signed the ANZUS Treaty, declaring “publicly and formally their sense of unity, so that no potential
Read more31 August 2026
Pauline Hanson, Leader of One Nation

One Nation WA win ends Labor’s safe harbour

By Michelle Grattan Neither Labor nor the Liberals needed the bruising Secret Harbour byelection to tell them One Nation had become a major player. But Saturday’s
Read more31 August 2026