Thinner condoms, rubber gloves with enhanced touch sensitivity, and building products with increased toughness and flexibility are some of the potential uses Queensland’s nano scientists have found for spinifex. The Queensland Government will invest $480,000 over the next three years to help researchers from The University of Queensland’s (UQ) Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology […]
Queensland’s transition from the Sunshine State to the Solar State continues to reach new milestones, Energy Minister Mark Bailey said today. “As of the end of March, Queensland now has more than 1500 megawatts of installed solar generation capacity, which equates to more than half a million rooftops,” he said. “That means that solar is […]
The students and chaperones participating in the 2016 Premier’s Anzac Prize tour are: – Cooper Hauff – Blackall State School; – Denya Hopkins – Urangan State High School; – Sophie Austin – Brigidine College, Indooroopilly; – Sally Higgins – Assumption College, Warwick; – Liam Doonican – Merrimac State High School; – Tasman Pearl – St […]
The Palaszczuk Government has moved to ban underground coal gasification because of its environmental impact. State Development Minister and Minister for Natural Resources and Mines Dr Anthony Lynham announced the immediate ban today and committed to introducing a legislated ban before the end of the year. “We have looked at the evidence from the pilot-operation […]
Queensland’s unemployment rate has remained steady at a two-year low as the Palaszczuk Government’s Economic Plan continues to deliver jobs, Treasurer Curtis Pitt said today. Mr Pitt said Australian Bureau of Statistics figures for March showed the trend unemployment rate was 6.0 per cent in March compared with the revised trend figure of 6.0 per […]
The Palaszczuk Government today announced a $5 million investment for a vibrant, new public space at James Cook University (JCU), which will help unlock an adjacent master planned development and hundreds of future job opportunities for Townsville. The public space, to be known as the ‘Ideas Market’, is one of the first projects to be […]
A new four-strain flu vaccine, protecting against the nasty Brisbane virus, is being made available for at-risk Australians for free from this month by the Turnbull Government, to help them build up their immunity in time for the peak flu season due in August 2016. Minister for Health Sussan Ley today announced the Federal Government […]
The Palaszczuk Government today released an independent review of Queensland’s biosecurity capability and its interim response to 32 recommendations to protect the state from plant and animal diseases, feral animals and pest weeds. Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Leanne Donaldson said the review was an election commitment in response to unprecedented cuts to Queensland’s biosecurity capability […]
Two Queensland companies are set to deliver for the troops today – with the first of hundreds of Army’s new super trucks rolling into Enoggera Barracks. State Development Minister and Minister for Natural Resources and Mines Dr Anthony Lynham said two Queensland companies started delivery on their job-generating Australian Defence Force contracts at the Gallipoli […]
A sneak peek of the new documentary series by Sir David Attenborough on the Great Barrier Reef revealed previously unseen footage of the great work being done to protect green turtles on remote Raine Island. Attending an early screening this evening of part two of the three part BBC series, Minister for the Environment, Dr […]