Shitbox Rally drivers are crossing the outback to raise money for a worthy cause (cancer research), personal challenges (breakdowns) and make new friends. More than 240 teams in the seven-day 3700-kilometre rally left Adelaide on Saturday (August 15) bound for […]

Peak hour services will be only partly restored across Brisbane and Gold Coast as of Monday (August 17), Queensland Rail says. The return of some services comes after some striking staff returned to work to clear a  maintenance backlog caused […]

The Ekka Show in Brisbane will stay put at the RNA Showgrounds up to and beyond the 2032 Olympic Games, the Queensland Government says. But it is funding a $287.5 million transformation of the showgrounds and precinct that involves an […]

New roads needed to start construction of a new nuclear submarine yard are starting to take shape at Osborne in Adelaide, South Australia. The road works will prepare the Lefevre Peninsula to become the home of the country’s AUKUS nuclear-powered […]

Wallaby and Queensland rugby have added Townsville to the list of their regular Test fixtures in a new deal. The Queensland Government has signed a three-Test deal to play in Townsville up to 2030 as well as a six-season deal […]

Bird flu vaccines for Phillip Island and St Kilda’s 5000-strong Little penguin population have arrived, the Victorian government says. Doses have arrived at the island and are ready to be administered early next week if given regulatory clearance, the state […]

New data centre projects are fuelling more construction job ads even as reference to AI skills in job ads have started falling, says online provider SEEK. SEEK’s latest national jobs report for July was released yesterday (August 12). It says […]

A beach pavilion costing $19 million continues to take shape at Redcliffe in northern Brisbane as the concrete foundation is poured. Construction workers began pouring 160 cubic metres of concrete into slabs for the ground floor of the main building […]