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Trials of road trains almost 54 metres long to operate on WA’s Great Northern Highway has been extended to the end of the year. The WA government says a triple-road train (53.5 metre long) trial running from Wubin to Muchea […]
Electric aircraft can offer faster hospital access, create up to 4600 jobs and potentially inject $3.7 billion into the South-East Queensland economy by 2045. That was the argument of an Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) opportunities paper released by the Council
A trial use of personal OC (capsicum) spray in the Northern Territory will now run to the end of the year. And the NT Government says it is considering expanding the trial to include 16-year-olds. Personal use of the self-defence
Youngs Crossing in northern Brisbane is almost halfway to ‘getting’ a new $120 million 200-metre bridge that can protect motorists from floods. For the next five weeks, concrete girders measuring up to 27 metres long will be driven, under escort,
Leichhardt Oval in inner Sydney is set for a $40 million facelift that should secure its future as a suburban sports ground. Funding for the project is coming from the federal government ($20m), NSW government ($10m) and Inner West Council
Freight traffic around the new Western Sydney International (WSI) Airport is due to increase by 33% after its 24-hour cargo terminal operations officially took off on Monday (July 27). The new terminal was inaugurated with the 10.25pm take-off of a
Queensland is to spend more than $14 million on buying 14,000 hand guns from Austria in a statewide upgrade. The state government says the Glock 45 Generation 6 pistol will be issued to officers by the end of the year.
A nuclear submarine shipyard earmarked for Osborne, South Australia, is to get an extra $4.6 billion tipped into it. With $3.9bn already allocated to the Adelaide-based yard in February, total public spending on it now stands at $8.5bn. The Australian
Inner Melbourne is a tram bell ring closer to 35,000 more homes after Victoria locked in planning controls for the city’s final two rail zones. The new zones will result in 35,000 new homes across the Melbourne and Yarra council
The federal police has confiscated more than $700,000 cash seized from a Victorian family at the Gold Coast Airport two years ago. The confiscation is part of ongoing money laundering investigations, police say. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) says $712,850
