Australian company Thomas Global has secured a 15 million dollars contract with Rheinmetall as part of a major deal to deliver a new generation of combat vehicles for Australia.

The Coalition Government selected Rheinmetall to deliver 211 Boxer Combat Vehicles. The project is worth $5.2 billion and will create up to around 1000 jobs right across Australia.

Minister for Defence Industry Melissa Price says she has tasked the major Defence players with ensuring they maximise local industry content.

Australian health care sector is the second-highest greenhouse gas emitter per capita, according to a new report by Health Care Without Harm.

Australia’s health care is responsible for 7 per cent of our total national emissions, which is more than the waste and industrial processing sectors

Fiona Armstrong, the Executive Director of Australia’s Climate and Health Alliance is asking for action plans to decarbonise Australia’s health systems and foster climate resilience.

Bushfires still remain despite the ease of windy weather in Southern Queensland.

After firefighters’ effort on saving the fires overnight, the Peregian blaze on the Sunshine Coast is now under control.

Interstate firefighters are coming to replace the exhausted ones.

However, windy and hot weather forecasted from Friday will intensify the fire.

The Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority warns the prospect of Great Barrier’s Reef is very poor.

According to the 2019 Outlook Report, climate change is threatening the sea lives’ wellbeing and the reef’s value as a World Heritage Area is thus challenged.

Hong Kong protestors have marched outside US Consulate to urge the US to pass the Hong Kong Democratic and Human Rights Act.

The bill suggests deterrent for Chinese and Hong Kong officials suppressing democracy and human rights.

Meanwhile, the US government reminds citizens to take intense caution after Beijing launched a propaganda campaign stating that they are provoking unrest there.

Japan may have to dump radioactive Fukushima water into the Pacific Ocean due to the lack of room for storage, Japanese environment minister Yoshiaki Harada has said

More than 1M tonnes of contaminated water is held in almost 1,000 tanks at the Fukushima Daiichi site, but the utility has warned that it will run out of tank space by the summer of 2022.

Environmentalists point out the government is obliged to seek other environmental alternatives.

A Tasmanian farmer has been given an 11-month jail sentence for illegally importing garlic bulbs that could have put Australia’s agricultural sector at risk.

The farmer and former chair of the Australian Garlic Industry Association Letetia Anne Ware,  imported more than 2000 garlic bulbs from the US and Canada, instructing suppliers to falsely label the garlic as “gardening supplies.

Liberal MP Gladys Liu has refused to criticise China’s actions in the South China Sea, after revelations were made about her connections to Chinese Communist Party organisations.

The Chisholm MP refused to say whether or not China’s actions in the South China Sea were unlawful, despite the findings of an international tribunal in 2016.

Minister for Agricultural Industry Development and Fisheries Mark Furner has announced Primary producers suffering from the recent bushfire can apply for disaster recovery assistance.

Individual Disaster Stricken Property provides subsidies up to $5,000 and loans of up to $250,000 at a concessional interest rate.

For more information on applying you can visit daf.qld.gov.au or phone 13 25 23 for assistance.