EXPLAINER: In Australia, close to 1.4 million properties are at risk of flooding, according to the Insurance Council Australia. The CSIRO says floods are the costliest natural disasters in Australia, averaging an $8.8 billion damage bill per year and the Australian...
The Queensland Government has listed a prime piece of riverfront land at Highgate Hill for sale after bulldozing a community garden run on the site for six years. ‘Kurilpa Commons’, at 1-3 Dudley St Highgate Hill, was started as a guerilla garden (not formally...
You may have heard that the government is proposing a new levy on tech giants like Google and Facebook to help fund Australian journalism. Before you look away, thinking ‘what has this got to do with me?’ – a quick question. What do you like about the website you’re...
Dozens of councils on Australia’s east coast are using or recommending a herbicide under ‘priority reconsideration’ by the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) 'for effects on environment, health, residues, trade’. Flupropanate, a herbicide...
As ‘the world goes to hell in a handbasket’ under male leadership, Brisbane women are conducting stealth campaigns to restore gender balance to positions of power, writes Karina Ames. Joining a group of professional women at a Women in Leadership event at the Precinct...
The Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital is warning the public that ‘trauma season’ for koalas is far from over, with record-breaking patient numbers sparking growing concerns for the final weeks of summer. September to February is the busiest and most confronting time of...
The Crisafulli Government has approved a 150-site tourist park at Coochin Creek near Caloundra, which adjoins Pumicestone Passage, an area of international importance under the RAMSAR convention. The approved development requires 0.6 hectares of vegetation to be...
As south-east Queensland is smashed by storms ahead of the official wet season, the author of two books on the Brisbane floods says governments should prepare with flood resilient developments and buildings, not dam releases. Brisbane barrister, David Topp, got a...
A reflection on intergenerational hunger, healing and the body as home. I was born in 1985 and grew up in a small North Queensland town. At primary school I was the only visibly non-white kid: half Australian, half Chinese Malaysian, learning early what ‘different’...
Almost every day, it seems we read or hear reports another family is grieving the murder of a loved one in a street brawl, another business owner is hospitalised after trying to fend off armed robbers, or shoppers simply going about their business are confronted by...
