The craft beer industry’s answer to the Oscars, the 2nd annual Beeries Gala Awards, have been held in Brisbane. The coveted Gold Beery for Best Community Contributor went to Kerry Claydon who runs the Chicks With Ales group. She tells Mark the huge variety of beer types is attracting increasing numbers of women keen to […]

Moreton Island is the only known location in southeast Queensland that is cane toad free and efforts are being ramped up to keep it that way. The Tangalooma Island Resort Eco Centre has welcomed a new recruit – Reggie the Cane Toad Detection Dog. Reggie’s trainer Steve Austin from Canine Training & Behaviour tells Mark […]

More than $4 billion will be given to Catholic and Independent schools in a bid to end a damaging funding dispute. The private school sector has long complained they’ve been left behind by the government’s funding model. Prime Minister Scott Morrison says the issue has been resolved, announcing a $4.5-billion cash injection over the next […]

At the last federal election, votes for minor parties soared to their highest level since the late 1940s. Chris Smith says those numbers don’t surprise him at all. “When you look back on recent events in Australian politics, is it any wonder that more than half of us don’t have any confidence in our federal […]

The federal government is continuing to defend a big taxpayer-funded grant to the Great Barrier Reef Foundation. An inquiry into a multi-million-dollar grant to a little-known organisation will continue in Canberra today Earlier this year, the federal government handed the Great Barrier Reef Foundation $444 million. But the organisation had asked for just $5 million […]