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Jan 7, 2025 | 
australiandefence.com.au | Kate Banville
Global firms are partnering with Australian based entities in a bid to position themselves for lucrative AUKUS submarine contracts, despite law reforms needed to progress. Snapshot of Australia’s AUKUS regulatory reformMarch 2024 saw the passage of two amendment Acts comprising the Defence Trade Controls Amendment Act 2024 (Cth) (DTC Amendment Act) and the Defence Amendment (Safeguarding Australia’s Military Secrets) Act 2024 (Cth) (SAMS Act).
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
northqueenslandregister.com.au | Kate Banville
The upgrades to rail loadout facilities at Hughenden, Maxwelton and Cloncurry have been welcomed. Picture: Supplied Pastoralists across northern Australia are now primed to increase cattle processing, thanks to newly completed works at critical rail yards along the Mt Isa Line.
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
northqueenslandregister.com.au | Kate Banville
Childcare services have received a boost in Mount Isa with one centre reopening and another sharing in $20 million of state government funding to go towards staff training and building a new facility.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
bdmag.com.au | Kate Banville
National security analysts have expressed doubt over ‘Australia’s political will’ to deliver on strategic objectives throughout the nation’s north, despite public vitriol of the rise of China’s influence and aggression.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
bdmag.com.au | Kate Banville
By now the reposturing of the 3rd Brigade is well known as Townsville cements itself as Australia’s Army capital and specialists of armoured combat. The transformative and expensive changes come as a result of the Defence Strategic Review which found land forces needed a restructure to focus on littoral manoeuvres, a type of warfighting which aims to get an advantage over the enemy through projection of land power from the sea to the land, and back.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
queenslandcountrylife.com.au | Kate Banville
Hay farmer and project investor Rolland Warcon with Bowen Pipeline Company director Sean Brown. Picture: Supplied On hold water allocations in North Queensland could prove a major blow for infrastructure projects aimed at 'securing and expanding productivity across the region'.
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Jul 17, 2024 | 
northqueenslandregister.com.au | Kate Banville
Hay farmer and project investor Rolland Warcon with Bowen Pipeline Company director Sean Brown. Picture: Supplied On hold water allocations in North Queensland could prove a major blow for infrastructure projects aimed at 'securing and expanding productivity across the region'.
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Apr 22, 2024 | 
psnews.com.au | Kate Banville |Caitlin Crowley
The Australian Defence Force is at the centre of a major biosecurity breach unfolding on Queensland’s Darling Downs after the discovery of at least 110 fire ant nests on the Oakey Army Aviation base, 150 km west of Brisbane. The detection is 70 km outside the southeast’s current fire ant biosecurity zone, and the furthest west the invasive pest has been found in Queensland, posing a catastrophic risk to the region’s prime agricultural land and multibillion-dollar farming sector.
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Apr 7, 2024 | 
the-riotact.com | Kate Banville
As the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) marks 75 years, a delegation of Ukrainian security experts has travelled to allied nations to raise the profile of the war-torn country’s bid for membership and further support. Signed in Washington, DC, on 4 April, 1949, in the aftermath of World War II to provide ”collective security against the Soviet Union”, the alliance has since grown from its 12 foundation members to 32 nations, with Finland and Sweden joining last month.
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Apr 5, 2024 | 
psnews.com.au | Kate Banville
As the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) marks 75 years, a delegation of Ukrainian security experts has travelled to allied nations to raise the profile of the war-torn country’s bid for membership and further support. Signed in Washington, DC, on 4 April, 1949, in the aftermath of World War II to provide ”collective security against the Soviet Union”, the alliance has since grown from its 12 foundation members to 32 nations, with Finland and Sweden joining last month.
