Gateway Motorway project complete and opening today
The $1.1 billion Gateway Upgrade North project is complete, with the official opening of the newly widened section of the Gateway Motorway held today.
Federal Minister for Cities, Urban Infrastructure and Population Alan Tudge, attended the commissioning of the project today and says the upgrade was a significant investment from the Australian Government to improve conditions for motorways and freight productivity in South East Queensland.
TAFE Southbank receives state of the art training kitchens
Two state of the art training kitchens have been unveiled at the TAFE Queensland Southbank campus that will provide world class culinary training for the world-renowned Le Cordon Bleu French hospitality school.
Deputy Premier and Member for South Brisbane, Jackie Trad, said the Palaszczuk Government has supported the TAFE Queensland and Le Cordon Bleu partnership with $3.7 million in funding towards an upgrade of the training facilities at TAFE Queensland’s South Bank campus.
Review: Celebration at 30th Alliance Français French Film Festival 2019
The 30th Alliance Français French Film Festival 2019 presents Celebration which opens with a sense of uncertainty, scattered thought and vacancy. The designer's hand is at a loss with completing a design sketch; a hand that once upon a time could have drawn up a power suit fit for Bianca Jagger or revealing see-through blouses designed to liberate the swingers of London’s happening sixties scene. There’s a sense of realisation and completion.
CHAI: PUNK
- Little less than two years has passed since Japanese quartet CHAI dropped their debut. Now comes PUNK and sophomore slumps be damned, damned to heck! Boiling with ceaseless, blending, vivacious chirrups and flavours of technicolour joy, CHAI’s latest outing is one wholesome dose of kaleidoscopic jubilee that should be savoured, down to the last drop.
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Cyclone hits Mozambique, South-East Africa.
People living in one of Mozambique's largest cities have been warned to expect the "worst-case scenario" as a major cyclone makes landfall.
Cyclone Idai, which is carrying winds of up to 165km/h, is making landfall near the port of Beira.
A storm surge of at least six metres (20 feet) is expected near low-lying Beira, a city of 500,000 people, Météo France said.
Heavy rains have already killed about 100 people in Mozambique and Malawi.
Call for probe into Russia's role in American election to be public
The US House of Representatives has called for Special Counsel Robert Mueller's upcoming report on his probe into Russia's role in the 2016 election, to be released to Congress and the public.
The 420-0 House vote, with four conservative Republican lawmakers voting "present," gave Democrats who control the chamber a political victory and put pressure on Attorney General William Barr to make the report public after Mueller submits it to him.
Unions fighting for worker rights on lead up to election
Unions are urging industry superannuation funds to campaign on workplace relations in the lead up to the federal election.
Australian Council of Trade Unions president Michele O’Neil says major companies that superfunds choose to invest in have chosen to undermine local workers’ rights while simultaneously exploiting foreign workers.
Ms O’Neil rejects claims of financial activism after unions demanded union-backed industry funds to pressure mining giant BHP to save the jobs of 80 local seafarers.
Retail Food Group hoses down concerns it is in financial strife
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC), have vowed to look into the issues identified in a parliamentary inquiry report of the Retail Food Group (RFG).
The parliamentary inquiry handed in its report on Thursday, recommending the RFG and its directors be investigated over allegations of insider trading, tax avoidance, breaches of consumer law and other market disclosure failings.
Woodenbong gets wooden bong
A woodwork artist from the town of Woodenbong has pitched his idea for a giant wooden bong to be constructed as the towns main tourist attraction.
Paul Pearson makes bongs as an occupation, and had built one that stood at 1.5 metres, but he has an even bigger goal that he believes will bring droves of tourists to the rural community.