The badly eroded Mary River on Mount Ubi Station at Kenilworth, whose sediment flows into the Great Barrier Reef, has been transformed with the help of federal government funding.

Station owner Stephen Carter says “We've certainly lost a lot of land, we're told something like 600,000 tonnes has disappeared, probably over the past 70 years, from floods and from erosion”.

Alluvium Consulting organised $500,000 worth of works that are calculated to reduce future sediment loss by 90 percent.

Thousands of hectares of native forest north of Noosa have been opened to the timber industry in a Labour decision to save logging jobs.

The harvesting permits have been extended to 2026, with the previous expiration date of 2024 threatening up to 500 workers.

The land was going to be turned into a national park, but Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says “This announcement will help secure the employment of 500 Maryborough and Wide Bay locals working in the industry.” 

A man decorated his house and garden with a million Christmas lights and raised more than £55,000 for charity. This year he unplugged the plug and claimed that it was too big to cope.

Since 2014, Robert Dempsey and his wife have been making the Cambridgeshire Turves a glistening village.

However, due to the lack of volunteers to guide the tourists, and some “nearly missed” on the narrow road, it meant that he decided to name it “a day trip”.

He said that he felt "very sad" about this.

As WhatsApp confirms that its software has been used to install spyware on mobile phones, many people are considering removing popular messaging applications. However, experts say this is not the answer.

WhatsApp has confirmed that some of its users have been attacked by spyware, causing considerable anger and concern in many countries, including India.

Firefighters are now demanding to know the details of toxic chemicals they were exposed to while battling a week-long industrial fire in West Footscray last year, as several-dozen firefighters have reported falling ill since the blaze.

Affected firefighters now suffer a number of different conditions, including lasting headaches, memory loss, respiratory illnesses and nose bleeds.

Surveillance and monitoring systems will be trialled in five South Australian aged care facilities from early next year in an attempt to reduce “adverse events”.

SA Health Minister Stephen Wade said the “CCTV pilot aims to… determine whether the technology can cost-effectively be used to provide higher levels of resident safety, improve care and reduce adverse events.”

Within the chosen sites, cameras will be placed in each bedroom, but only after individual residents give their personal consent.

The former mayor of the Fraser Coast, Chris Loft, has been sentenced to 12 months’ jail, suspended after 6 months, for misconduct in public office.

The Crime and Corruption Commission found that he used his position to push for the appointment of his former campaign manager to the newly-created chief-of-staff role.

Mr Loft was arrested while still mayor in 2017, with the charge relating to his time as mayor from March 2016 to February 2018.

A QUT researcher from the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision is aiming to get robots to see the world in real time, increasing their ability to interact with objects.

PHD researcher Doug Morrison says current models of robot behaviour used ‘fixed’ vision where the robot operates off one observation of an object.