Industry News

The Queensland Government has announced it will invest a further $30 million over three years to support the state’s resources and exploration industries.

The Queensland Government has introduced new legislation that will establish a new Health Ombudsman to handle compaints about health services and providers throughout the state.

The New South Wales Government has introduced new legislation that will forcibly exclude unvaccinated children from child care facilities.

The Federal Government has announced further changes to its Closing the Gap initiative, which will aim to ensure Indigenous children are attending preschool and kindergarten.

The Federal Government has introduced amendments to the Australian Education Bill 2012 before Parliament, which it says will enshrine a ‘new, fairer school funding system’.

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has announced it has left the nation’s official cash rate unchanged at 2.75 per cent, following the board’s meeting earlier this week.

Nominations for the Telstra’s 19th annual Business Women’s Awards, giving the nation’s top businesswomen the chance to share in the same accolades as Carolyn Creswell, Janine Allis and Margot Spalding.

For the fifth consecutive year, the number of students enrolled in the national publicly funded training system increased, with 1.943 million students studying last year, up 3.3% from 2011.

The Queensland Government has declared Mount Isa City Council drought stricken, taking the total number of drought declared shires to 14.

The Queensland Government has passed new legislation that it says will promote greater transparency and accountability of industrial organisations.

The Queensland Government has released a new agriculture strategy which will aim to help double the state’s agricultural output by 2040.

The federal Government has released new data which it says shows a spike in the numbers of of overseas workings coming to Australia on the 457 visa program.

Sydney Airport has released its Preliminary Draft Master Plan, which it promises will deliver significantly improved traffic and passenger flow.

The Queensland Government and Local Government Association of Queensland (LGAQ) have announced they are working together on a new program aimed at developing a best practice development approval process.

In what may go down as the most insensitive piece of political word play this year, Queensland Treasurer Tim Nicholls has admitted that his state’s journey back to surplus has been ‘blown off course’ by ex-Tropical Cyclone Oswald.

Latest Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) figures show that GDP, in seasonally adjusted volume terms, grew 0.6 per cent in the March quarter 2013.

Increasing the carbon price’s emission reduction target from 5 per cent to 25 per cent by 2020 would have a marginal impact on the economy, according to the latest economic modeling released by WWF-Australia.

Researchers from the University of Adelaide have found a lake on an island off the coast of Queensland that has remained untouched by changes in the earth’s climate over the past 7,000 years.

Almost half of those who can check their email outside of work hours frequently do, according to the latest research coming out of the University of South Australia.

A team of researchers from the University of Adelaide are spearheading a new direction on prostate cancer, which they claim could yield potential new treatments for the disease.