QLD Ballet 2024_Bespoke

Bespoke ballet brings daring dance alive

Queensland Ballet’s Bespoke season opens next week with an exhilarating blend of edgy, original, and daring works created by renowned local and international
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Captain Matthew Flinders

Matthew Flinders finally makes it home

The first person to circumnavigate Australia, and was largely the reason our country was called as such, has been laid to rest in his birthplace in England. Australian
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Road maintenance work under way. | Newsreel

Loans open up Ripley Valley housing development

Almost $28 million in infrastructure agreements will unlock more than 9000 new housing lots south-west of Brisbane. State Government deals with the Ipswich City Council
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Drug breakthrough could lift life expectancy - Newsreel

Exciting breakthrough in extending human lives

A quantum leap in human lifespans is possible with the discovery that switching off a type of protein can reduce the inflammation that causes many deaths. Scientists at
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Woman setting air fryer to cook chips. | Newsreel

Air fryers inflate their kitchen status

The most recent kitchen must-have has stepped it up a gear, with air fryers now the king of multi-tasking, according to experts. Consumer advocacy group CHOICE tested a
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Dr Amy McQuire of QUT. | Newsreel

Black journalism important in fight for justice

Black justice journalism needs to be encouraged and used to fight against racism in Australia, according to the author of new book on Western media. Black Witness: The
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Wildfires in Canada 2023. | Newsreel

Queensland firefighters head back to Canada

Queensland will send firefighters to Canada for the second time in as many years to battle extreme wildfires. The Queensland Fire Department (QFD) will supply 24
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The Macfarlane brothers, Lachlan and Austin. | Newsreel

Brisbane brothers secure YouTube funding

Two Brisbane brothers will share in $580,000 in funding to produce a YouTube series. Lachlan and Austin Macfarlane will write and direct a six-part anthology series for
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Men shaking hands on work site. | Newsreel

Unemployment rate remains over 4 percent

Australia’s unemployment rate rose to 4.1 per cent in June. Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) data shows the seasonally adjusted rate rose by less than 0.1
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Forest as global carbon sink. | Newsreel

Global carbon sink leaking emissions

The world’s forests are absorbing carbon equal to half global fossil fuel emissions, but emissions caused by tropical deforestation negate two-thirds of that
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