Business

Lower Mt Walker group’s fight to stop industrial BESS

The Lower Mount Walker Community Action Group sum up the year in their own words and say how they feel they have been left in the dark by Libra Energy which is behind the push for industrial solar in the area.

Rob Mellett

18 Dec 2024

Health

Alarm at Mt Crosby PFAS levels

A TOP scientist says it is disturbing that concentrations of a cancer-causing chemical were discovered at local treatment plants at the highest ever concentrations in Australia.

Rob Mellett

18 Dec 2024

City Life

Union welcomes childcare reforms

AN EDUCATION union has applauded a Labor pledge to introduce three days of subsidised childcare per week if re-elected.

Rob Mellett

18 Dec 2024

Business

Why did RAAF dump 23 F-111’s at Swanbank?

IPSWICH dumps are never out of the headlines for long but, in 2011, they were in the news for entirely different reasons.

Rob Mellett

11 Dec 2024

Business

Top Qld preschool announced; which is it?

LITTLE Locals preschools were presented with an award for excellence after being handpicked as the best in Queensland from more than 300 schools.

Rob Mellett

11 Dec 2024

Business

Fire ant plan ‘propaganda … of dubious merit’

REGARDING the recent articles in The Ipswich Tribune and the fire ant eradication program, is the impetus behind the recent intensification and expansion of the program economic or political?

Rob Mellett

11 Dec 2024

Business

Cleanaway fine amounts to 0.0017% of revenue

CLEANAWAY’S 2024 full year key financial results as listed on the Simply Wall Street website has the company recording a revenue of $3.78 billion this year (up 6.2 percent from 2023).

Rob Mellett

04 Dec 2024

Business

Booval Fair to be renovated

BOOVAL Fair will be refurbished with building working to start on a new façade.

Rob Mellett

04 Dec 2024

Business

Fire ant campaigners to rally on Saturday

LEADING voices in the fight against what campaigners say are the devastating effects of the fire ant eradication program will rally in Brisbane on Saturday, November 30.

Rob Mellett

27 Nov 2024

Automotive

XPeng helicopter expected soon

CHINESE carmaker XPeng is busy focusing on bringing its battery-powered helicopter to Australia within two years.

Staff Writers

27 Nov 2024

Automotive

Super Duty takes ute to another level

FORD will, for the first time outside the F-Series truck, employ the Super Duty name on another model for the most adept Ranger ute so far.

Staff Writers

27 Nov 2024

Automotive

Audi Q8 e-tron to be axed next year

VW HAS confirmed talks have ended with a possible buyer for the factory where the Audi Q8 e-tron is made.

Staff Writers

27 Nov 2024

Ipswich Tribune

Blacksmiths in the buff for mental health

NAKED blacksmithing – no, it’s not a new TikTok fad and nor is it another exotic government policy dreamt up to tackle youth crime.

Rob Mellett

27 Nov 2024

Business

Bus driver awards now open

NOW is the chance to thank the bus driver who has brought something special to your daily commute.

Rob Mellett

27 Nov 2024

Health

Premature Casey mum’s ‘little diamond’

THE Redbank Plains parents of a premature baby born with a congenital condition have thanked the medical team for saving their “little diamond”.

Rob Mellett

27 Nov 2024

Automotive

The motorhome with $2m price tag

THE Brabus Big Boy 1200 is a 12-metre-long luxury studio home on wheels which comes powered with a 12.8-litre, six-cylinder turbo diesel engine and 390kW and 2600Nm output.

Staff Writers

20 Nov 2024