Gautum Adani’s wealth has jumped to $16 billion u.s to $50 billion u.s. This has proved more valuable than Elon Musk’s Tesla and Jeff Bezos’s Amazon this year. Adani plans to go ahead with the Carmichael thermal coal project in central Queensland under the new company name of Bravus.The businessman’s workers

Agrobusiness financial house Rabobank says confidence among Queensland farmers is at one of the highest levels it has been in two decades. The optimism comes amid strong commodity prices, low interest rates and a positive economic outlook. However, farmers say a bit of rain would do even more to boost their

Dutch logistics company Vanderlande, plan to make waiting at luggage carousels a thing of the past at a new airport in Badgerys Creek a suburb in Sydney. Vanderlande has won the right to operate the baggage services at the new airport and plan to use an app that will tell people when their bags are going to turn up.

A Medecins Sans Frontieres report says barely one in ten health facilities in Ethiopia’s Tigray region are functional as the region grapples with a worsening humanitarian crisis. Of the one hundred and six facilities MSF visited, it says one in five was occupied by armed soldiers, with one being used as an army base. Tigray has been in cri

Brazilian Vice Present Hamilton Mourao has told the Brazilian people that they are to blame for the country’s high COVID-19 case and deaths numbers. He said it is not in Brazlians’ nature to respect the rules and that the Brazilian people enjoyed partying and going out too much to wait for restrictions to ease. 

The top levels of Queensland’s public service are undergoing a reshuffle following the resignation of the Director-General of The Department of Premier and Cabinet Dave Stewart.

Mr Stewart is leaving his post of six years to become Queensland Agent-General in London.

Brisbane City Council is set to meet next Tuesday to receive a briefing on organising the 2032 Olympic Games and vote on submitting a formal bid.

The International Olympic Committee has already named Brisbane as its preferred partner for the games.

New South Wales MP for the Animal Justice Party Emma Hurst is calling for a mandatory animal ban for anyone found guilty of bestiality. 

Currently, people convicted of bestiality charges are still allowed to own and work alongside animals and the maximum penalty for aggravated animal cruelty is a $22 000 fine or two years in jail. 

Thousands of Syrian protestors took to the streets in the rebel-held city of Idlib last night to mark ten years since the uprisings that triggered the Syrian civil war.

The 2011 uprising began amid calls for the deposition of President Bashar Al-Assad and, after ten years and nearly 400 000 deaths, the protestors’ message has not changed.