Photo: Nathan Fulton/DFAT More eco-tourism projects are on the cards after new Queensland Premier David Crisafulli announced his Cabinet on Friday. The departments of Tourism and Environment will be merged under one portfolio with Andrew Powell named as minister. “… we will overcome the roadblocks that have stood in the way of Queensland benefitting from…
Picture: stock A six-year attendance record was set for Flemington on Saturday when 81,612 racegoers passed through the racecourse turnstiles for Derby Day. The crowd for the traditional curtain-raiser stood at 81,612, the highest crowd since 2018, according to the Victoria Racing Club. Goldrush Guru (ridden by Jamie Kah) won the blue riband $2 million Group…
The Jillaroos will meet their NZ rivals in this weekend’s Pacific Cup women’s final in Sydney. Picture: DFAT The Kangaroos will face an in-form Tonga after the Pacific Islanders pipped the Kiwis 25-24 in their historic Pacific Cup rugby league clash in Auckland on Saturday. A field goal from Isaiya Katoa with four minutes left…
Picture: stock THE State of the Climate Report for 2024 has renewed calls for more urgent action by researchers and academics. Monash University Associate Professor Angie Bone is a planetary health specialist and co-director of the Monash Sustainable Development Institute (MSDI). She says: “Unless we urgently take decisive action, climate change will have bigger impacts…
Picture: supplied THE CSIRO-Bureau of Meteorology State of the Climate Report for 2024 has renewed calls for more urgent action by politicians and industry. The report is predicting more extreme heat events, longer fire seasons, more intense heavy rainfall, and sea level rises. Researchers and environmental organisations are renewing their calls for action. The Climate…
Picture: supplied Australia’s climate is getting hotter with more extreme heat events, longer fire seasons, more intense heavy rainfall and rising sea level. That was the finding of the State of the Climate 2024 report released by the CSIRO and Bureau of Meteorology. Scientists found the oceans around Australia are continuing to warm with greater…
S Lloyd J. Austin III (far right) with Antony J. Blinken (next to him) and South Korea’s Foreign Affairs Minister Cho Tae-yul and Defence Minister Kim Yong-hyun in Washington DC. Picture: US Department of Defence North Korea’s entry into Russia’s war against Ukraine is now a matter of ‘when’, not ‘if’, says US Defence Secretary…
A flooded part of Valencia, Spain. Picture: Twitter (X) Spanish rescue teams have discovered eight bodies on Thursday (local time) in a garage, trapped by flash flooding that killed at least 155 people in the Valencia region alone. Overseas media reports say local authorities have not revealed how many people are still unaccounted for after…
Image: stock Victoria is looking for 19 principals to lead schools which are not due to open until 2026. Education Minister Ben Carroll says the new schools comprise of 13 primary, three secondary, two specialist and one P-9, opening in 2026. Applications are open via the Department of Education’s online recruitment portal and close on…
Picture: stock The SA bushfire danger season is starting two weeks early for metropolitan Adelaide, the Mount Lofty Ranges and Kangaroo Island, the state government says. Fire bans will start on Friday, November 15, in these districts as the SA (Country Fire Service) launched its Be Bushfire Ready awareness campaign. The dates for bans were…