Child and AI chatbot. | Newsreel

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 more 22 September 2025
QFD Commissioner Steve Smith. | Newsreel

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 more 22 September 2025
Dr Jiaming Ma

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 more 22 September 2025
Andrew King

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 more 22 September 2025
Amazon rainforest deforestation.

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 more 22 September 2025
Friends at a restaurant. | Newsreel

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 more 22 September 2025
Movie Clapper board. | Newsreel

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 more 22 September 2025
Multicultural group. | Newsreel

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 more 22 September 2025
QIMR Berghofer Director and CEO Professor Fabienne Mackay said Georgina Professor Long

Striving for zero deaths from melanoma

A drive to zero deaths from melanoma underlined a keynote speech which celebrated a milestone in Queensland medical research history. World-leading melanoma researcher
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Former North Burnett Regional Council Mayor Rachel Chambers. | Newsreel

Chambers new Queensland Food Farmers’ Commissioner

Former North Burnett Regional Council Mayor Rachel Chambers is the new Queensland Food Farmers’ Commissioner. State Primary Industries Minister Tony Perrett said Ms
Read more 19 September 2025