Gold Road Resources has recently poured the first bars of gold from its Gruyere mine, and expects to be commercial within four months.

Australia’s newest billion-dollar company has more than two million tonnes of ore ready to be processed to extract gold.

The company is on track to joining the ASX200 and is likely to trigger a series of index funds to buy stock and increase stocks even higher.

In a world first international study, Australian researchers have discovered genetic links to the eating disorder, anorexia.

Researchers from QIMR Berghofer medical research institute analysed the DNA of nearly 17,000 people suffering with anorexia, including nearly 3000 from Australia and New Zealand and found eight genes with direct links to the disorder.

The International Maritime Organisation will enforce a new emissions standard designed to curb pollution produced by the world’s ships.

From January 1, 2020, shipping vessels using fuel with a sulfur content higher than 0.5% will be banned, compared to the levels 3.5% at present.

More than 170 countries, including the US, have signed to the fuel change.

The world’s debt rose by 3 trillion in the first quarter of 2019 due to an almost unprecedented borrowing binge that brought total global debt to $246.5 trillion.

According to a study released today from the Institute of International Finance high levels of debt put countries in vulnerable positions in the event of a down urn and could endanger the world’s economic recovery.

The IIF’s data revealed that lower global interest rates and increased government spending are fueling the trend.

A quota based fishing management system proposed for the Sunshine Coast region’s popular species has industry veterans fearing for their futures.

Third generation fisherman Kevin Cannon told the Sunshine Coast Daily the proposed system would ‘devalue his license by up to 60 per cent’.

Agricultural Industry Development and Fisheries Minister Mark Furner said the quota based management system is necessary in building a sustainable legacy.

Members of the Queensland LNP have overwhelmingly voted for a motion aiming to alter the legalisation of abortion at their state conference in Brisbane on the weekend.

The LNP plan to reduce the amount of time available to access an abortion to 20 weeks of pregnancy if they win the 2020 election.

A motion to once again criminalise abortion was also voted upon with support from party members. 

Adani demands names of CSIRO scientists that are involved in the reviewing of its contentious groundwater plans.

CSIRO staff have been alarmed after Adani indicated they had “a deliberate strategy” to pressure scientists by searching for personal information that could be used to “discredit their work”.

Adani says it wrote to the department to request “assurance that individuals involved in any review processes were independent”.

An inquest into the deaths of six young people at music festivals found the only doctor at Central Coast festival ‘Lost Paradise’ was not ‘equipped’ to treat drug overdoses.

Dr Krishna Sura treated festival-goer Joshua Tram when he was brought into the medical tent before becoming fatally ill, and told the coronial inquest he thought there was a struggle to find doctors for the event.

Amazon warehouse and fulfillment centre workers around the world are going on strike today to bring light to the working conditions that they endure.

The strike is occurring simultaneously as Amazon’s “Prime Day” and strikers are arguing that buying from Amazon during Prime Day is akin to crossing a picket line. 

Workers around the US continue to complain of extremely large quotas, limited bathroom breaks, mandatory holiday shifts and a need for pain medication to get through ten-hour work days.