Sep
23
2026
Construction began on Fortescue’s Turner River solar farm in the red dirt of Western Australia’s Pilbara in May. Expected to be completed by 2028, Turner River is the fourth and final solar energy plant in the mining company’s plan to switch to renewable energy for all its terrestrial iron ore operations.
Sep
23
2026
After a long haul, the last stage 2 turbine was finally installed at the massive Golden Plains wind farm in Victoria in July. Expected to be Australia’s largest renewable power wind farm when it is finished, Golden Plains’ projected energy transmission will power 765,000 homes. About 60 kilometres north-west of Geelong and spread over nearly …read more
Sep
22
2026
Owned by Australians with products made in Australia, the Moduplay Group has proved remarkably successful over the years – designing, making and installing playgrounds for schools, councils and property developers across Australia, and expanding year on year.
Sep
22
2026
Companies in the booming artificial-intelligence field have a massive appetite for the world’s purest aluminium materials, produced by an Australian firm in Queensland. Now set to expand to a facility 30 times the size of its current operation, Alpha HPA uses solvent extraction to produce ultra high-purity aluminium materials, undetectable levels of thorium and uranium.
Sep
3
2026
The Virtual Energy Network now operating at the Port of Brisbane provides all participants with solar power generated on site, reducing power bills and limiting emissions. Power generated by solar panels at the port is shared virtually across the network of port tenants by a complex online platform matching real-time power use and power generation …read more
Sep
3
2026
Australians bought an average of 55 new garments in 2024 and much of this clothing made the short journey from retailer to owner to rubbish bin. More than 880 million of these garments – totalling about 220,000 tonnes – wound up in Australian landfill. The Seamless Circular Clothing Textiles Fund, winner of the Australian Financial …read more
Aug
19
2026
Considered the most lucrative Australian university research commercialisation agreement ever negotiated, the 2025 deal for exclusive rights to the University of Queensland’s virus clamp technology has huge potential for vaccine development. Pharmaceutical giant Sanofi bought the university’s spin-off company Vicebio, with the rights to the clamp technology, for US$1.15 billion (A$1.6 billion) up-front and potential on-going payments of …read more
Aug
19
2026
Within weeks of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, student teachers from the Monash Virtual School were offering online lessons to Ukrainian school-students studying in bomb shelters and displaced homes. The school helps to fill educational gaps – offering free tuition by the university’s student teachers and academics and providing a way for tens of thousands of …read more
Jul
22
2026
Investors and analysts remain wary of ASX-listed insurers, concerned earnings are at a cyclical peak after years of strong returns. “The market tends to reward earnings recovery where it looks repeatable,” said Janice How, professor of finance at the Queensland University of Technology. “In insurance, that means disciplined pricing and careful risk management, not just …read more
Jul
22
2026
Subsidised property insurance an important way to address the increasingly urgent problem of ballooning property insurance costs in high-risk regions, according to experts in the field. A scheme of that nature would keep home-owners in the insurance net but it would affect the price signal, said Paula Jarzabkowski, professor of Strategic Management at the University …read more