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Up to 10m of beach is lost every year and more sand has to be trucked in, Bass Shire Council says. Photo: ANDREW KACIMAIWAI

Bass coast councillors want levy on fossil fuel companies to fund work

Bass Coast councillors in Victoria have had enough of continually replenishing their beaches and wants funding help. The council wants Canberra to impose a levy on large fossil fuel companies to cover the rising costs of mitigation work done by […]
18 Jagera Court at Closeburn is a new council property with fire trails. Photo: Moreton Bay City Council

New fire trails created on council buyback properties to allow for controlled burns

New fire trails are being created on properties bought by Moreton Bay council as part of environmental land buyback program for controlled burns. Moreton Bay Mayor Peter Flannery says they have an environmental land buyback program to buy properties to […]
Dignity ... The Brothers in Arms memorial depicts brothers James and John Hunter and is located at Zonnebeke, near Ypres, in Belgium. Picture: Department of Defence.

Final dignity for WW1 Diggers as their names are finally put on their graves

A final dignity has been accorded to two more Diggers killed during World War I after they were each given a named grave. Nigh on 100 years later, Second Lieutenant Duncan McKenzie (38th Battalion) and Private Roy Martin (30th Battalion) […]
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Kwinana container terminal plan gets $1.1 billion funding surety from governments

A planned Kwinana container terminal in Perth has been given $1.1 billion for a new road network. The federal government is spending $552 million on new and upgraded roads which will be matched by the Western Australian Government; it will […]
Flight paths for Kingsford Smith Airport will have to change ahead of the city’s new airport opening. Image: supplied.

Flight paths over Sydney to change as 24-7 airport prepares for first landings

Flight paths over Sydney are to change in early July as the city’s new international airport gears up for its first landings. Federal Transport Minister Catherine King says the changes will take effect from July 9 and affect all aircraft […]
Anglo-Saxon metal work that is part of the Viking hoard. Photo: supplied by ANMM

Viking hoard from, and for, the ages going on show at national maritime museum in Sydney

A Viking treasure hoard already long buried in Scotland before William Wallace fired up against English rule in the late 13th century is coming to Sydney. The Galloway Hoard is a collection of Viking artifacts that are rated as one […]
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Draft media laws making digital platforms pay for local content to go before federal parliament

Draft news media laws to compel digital platforms to pay for Australian content will go before federal parliament this winter. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says the draft News Bargaining Incentive (NBI) will remove a loophole in the News Media Bargaining […]
Woorinen near Swan Hill, Victoria: The desertification of rural services needs to be reversed, a regional banking alliance says.

Banking ‘desertification’ in regional, rural areas needs reversing, says alliance

The banking ‘desertification’ in regional and rural areas not only needs to stop but has to be reversed, a business alliance says. The Regional Banking Investment Alliance (RBIA) says the major banks’ desertion of rural services has blown a $1 […]
The 2032 Brisbane Olympics construction boom is prompting interstate fears of a work drain. Photo: ANDREW KACIMAIWAI

Construction worker shortage set to double in year as projects pile up nationally

A growing shortage of construction workers nationwide is likely to double by mid-2027 amid a glut of housing, defence, energy and transport projects. The warning was contained in Infrastructure Australia’s 2025 Market Capacity Report which predicts a current shortfall of […]
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