Category: Australia

Australia, get ready to get icy. Multi-platinum rap superstar Saweetie is officially bringing her headline tour down under for the very first time, with shows set to hit Perth, Brisbane, Melbourne, and Sydney this July and August 2025. Presented by Primuse Entertainment and Capital Touring, the tour promises an electrifying showcase of Saweetie’s biggest hits, […]

Rabobank has announced a package of support measures that will be made available to farming clients dealing with the impacts of devastating floods along the NSW Mid North Coast. Rabobank state manager for NSW Toby Mendl said the specialist agribusiness bank has a range of measures in place to support clients dealing with the “record-breaking floods” […]

May 28th is Menstrual Hygiene Day, and WaterAid Australia is calling for menstrual health to be recognised as a climate justice issue. This follows new research revealing the worsening impacts of climate change on women and girls in the Pacific. A scoping report by WaterAid Australia and The Pacific Menstrual Health Network highlights how extreme weather […]

Global mining services provider Thiess has expanded its service portfolio with the launch of Thiess Asset Services – leveraging over 90 years of proven expertise in managing, operating and maintaining one of the world’s largest and most diverse mining fleets.   With Thiess’ footprint spanning seven countries and over 50 projects, Thiess Asset Services will bring […]

Climate scientists are overall less trusted than other types of scientists, according to a new study led by the UNSW Institute for Climate Risk & Response (ICRR). Dr Omid Ghasemi and colleagues compared responses from a survey of nearly 70,000 people across 68 countries on the trustworthiness of climate scientists with a broad range of other ideological […]

When Composers Collide: Bach Off, Brahms! The Staves are drawn for this year’s Australian Festival of Chamber Music (AFCM) and Artistic Director Jack Liebeck is bringing some of classical music’s biggest beefs to the stage! From the polite applause of concert halls to passive-aggressive piano sonatas and seriously shady letters, classical music has had its […]

Scientists have now discovered the oldest ancestor for all the Australian tree frogs, with distant links to the tree frogs of South America. Newly discovered evidence of Australia’s earliest species of tree frog challenges what we know about when Australian and South American frogs parted ways on the evolutionary tree. Previously, scientists believed Australian and […]

From 20 May to 1 June 2025, SOL Gallery in Fitzroy will host The Power of Choice, a powerful and deeply human photographic exhibition by award-winning photojournalist Julian Kingma, who has turned his lens toward one of society’s most profound and rarely documented subjects: the lives of terminally ill people who have chosen Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD). […]

Engineers at RMIT University have invented a small ‘neuromorphic’ device that detects hand movement, stores memories and processes information like a human brain, without the need for an external computer. Team leader Professor Sumeet Walia said the innovation marked a step towards enabling instant visual processing in autonomous vehicles, advanced robotics and other next-generation applications […]