Industry News

Analysts say huge coal projects in Queensland’s Galilee Basin carry “an almost unprecedented level of financial complexity and risk.”

Revelations and denial in the latest instalment of the royal commission into unions.

Tech giant Samsung is getting into gas, with word of a near-$1 billion deal to build an advanced liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant.

A mining company that has operated for over 100 years is in a rough patch, but a new deal may help it pay down its massive debt.

Reebok Australia has been ordered to pay $350,000 for false claims about its shoes.

A string of natural disaster has created a new risk in North Queensland, with many going uninsured because their premiums are too high.

The Queen Mother of Bhutan is in Canberra to encourage young women to higher levels of education.

Sexting is commonplace among Australian teenagers, and a new study shows it has become a fairly normal way for romantic youngsters to interact.

A study has revealed a new benefit of effective early childhood education, and again showed just how advanced some Scandinavian education systems are.

Social media has emerged as the hip new place for junk food marketing, with a study showing that adolescents are being made to spread the message about unhealthy food.

Bad apples can be picked from the bushel of financial advice with a new website to identify dodgy planners.

Hobart has the only capital city airport in Australia without any permanent AFP officers, after they were pulled out this week.

Immigration Minister Scott Morrison has denied trying to sweep extra roles into his portfolio as he sets up the Australian Border Force.

There will be plenty of issues to mull over when representatives from across Queensland’s local government sector converge next week.

The New South Wales Government has backed down on a proposal to slash the amount that can be spent on political advertising.

The West Australian Government has finally released details of planned council mergers, but the Local Government Association says it is just the start.

There is concern over big gaps in government reports on how often Australians' private internet and phone records have been accessed by law-enforcement, and one city council is becoming the poster child.

A stand-off over wages continues in the Tasmanian public sector, and the Government is also being accused of trying to water-down an important anti-corruption office.

A new paper has described some details of a genome-editing system that is quickly becoming the global standard.

The student who leaked details of the Prime Minister’s daughter’s “secret” scholarship faces up to two years jail.