The number of people killed on Queensland roads has hit a five-decade low, with 228 people killed in the 2018-19 period, according to data released during estimates hearings. 

Transport Minister Mark Bailey says traffic deaths in Queensland have been decreasing for the past 30 years due to a number of road safety initiatives, including compulsory seatbelts, reducing the blood alcohol limit and increased RBTs and speed enforcement. 

Clean energy will provide 35% of Australia’s total electricity needs within two years, according to a new report highlighting the pace at which solar power is transforming the national energy market. 

The report by Green Energy Markets has found rooftop solar systems and new large-scale farms regularly pushed renewable energy generation beyond 30% at midday during June, typically one of the least sunny months. 

An Australian defence company behind hundreds of millions of dollars in sales of next-generation weapons systems to Saudi Arabia and the UAE has denied its weapons are being used in the war in Yemen. 

EOS chief executive Ben Greene told the Guardian that shipments to the UAE, uncovered in an ABC story last December, related to a ‘demonstration unit’ which had no ‘lethality whatsoever.’ 

Sudanese authorities have ordered the indefinite closure of all schools in the country following the shooting deaths of five students at a rally sparked further student demonstrations. 

Siddig Youssef, a prominent protest leader, says talks with the country’s ruling generals on a proposed joint civilian-military ruling body have been cancelled in response to the killings. 

Afghan and US forces have killed more civilians in Afghanistan in the first half of 2019 than insurgents did, UN figures show.

According to the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, 717 civilians have been killed by US forces, compared to 531 by militants. 

The US military has rejected Unama’s findings, saying its own collection of evidence is more accurate and its forces in Afghanistan “always work to avoid harm to civilian non-combatants”.

A 73-year-old Halcyon Parks resident has been preparing to participate in the 5km race at the Sunshine Coast Marathon.

Ash O’Neil says health is an important aspect of his life that he has retained all the way through.

Every entry into the event will result in $5 being donated to the Ronald Mcdonald House.

A club linked to a long-term business partner of Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate may escape paying a $137,000 debt owed to the Gold Coast City Council.

Mr Tate’s connection to the Gold Coast Commerce club is unclear but allegedly is a key stakeholder of companies connected to the club.

The club's treasurer says it has been "wrongly charged" with the dues, a claim the council rejects

Australia has been the latest country to join the lab-grown meat industry with two new companies, Heuros in Canberra and VOW in Sydney, aiming to commercialise meat grown from stem cells in a laboratory.

So far the industry has been dominated by food-tech start-ups in Europe, Israel and California’s Silicon Valley, however no company anywhere in the world has released a commercial product.