Coles will spend $2.5 billion dollars over the next two years to improve self-serve checkouts, online shopping and data systems.

Coles’ market share has decreased as it has fewer stores in suburban areas, which often were the only stores residents could attend due to travel restrictions.

The top court in US state South Carolina has blocked two executions by electric chair set for this month under the state’s recently revised capital punishment law, as the US state scrambles to find alternatives to lethal injections amidst a drug shortage.  

Queensland Minister for Energy, Renewables and Hydrogen, Mick de Brenni is welcoming the return of unit B1 at Callide Power Station earlier today.

Following an effort involving more than 300 employees and contractors, unit B1 was turned back on and is now flowing reliable and firmed energy into the grid.

Queensland is one step closer to building its next passenger train fleet after shortlisting three leading train manufacturers to enter the next phase of the Rollingstock Expansion Program.

Transport and Main Roads Minister Mark Bailey said it builds on the two hundred and eighty three jobs saved by the Palaszczuk Government in 2017, and all up delivers a $1 billion guaranteed pipeline of train building work in Maryborough.

Despite community outcry, the Brisbane City Council have not elected to reinstate the Norman Park cross-river ferry.

The cancelled service provides transport to 139 residents a day. 

A species of palm-loving coconut rhinoceros beetle may threaten home gardens, plantations and biodiversity in Australia as biological controls fail.

Over the past few years, the pest has spread through Papua New Guinea, The Solomon Islands and Vanuatu, causing severe agricultural and economic damage.

Farmers have supported Scott Morrisson’s trade agreement that will see Australia export beef and lamb to the UK as import taxes are phased out.  

The deal negotiated between the prime minister and UK counterpart Boris Johnson sees beef and lamb tariffs eliminated after ten years of duty free quotas rising over the period.

Israeli forces have launched airstrikes on Gaza, the first offensive since a new coalition government took power, coming just weeks after an 11-day conflict with the Palestinian enclave.

Councillor for the Gabba Ward Jonathan Sri says he was asked to leave a Council meeting after interrupting Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner’s budget speech yesterday to call out a lack of measures to address homelessness. 

Councillor Sri says “People are sleeping in their cars, sleeping on park benches, rents are going through the roof, and BCC is doing nothing to address it,” he said.

Councillor Fiona Cunningham has joined the defence, of lord mayor Adrian Schrinner after the LNP council released its budget plan yesterday. 

The local government has secured funding for a range of projects that will improve the Brisbane area. Funds will be directed towards better parks, community sport, road infrastructure and supporting local businesses.