Political sentiment surrounding sustainable energy could soon become be highly changeable, especially as heavyweight investors continue to pursue real commercial returns on major projects in regional areas.
12 June, 2014
The local government sector in Queensland has hit out at the Campbell Newman government’s 2014-15 State Budget because of unspecified cuts to pensioner rate concessions.
5 June, 2014
The Campbell Newman government has expanded on its existing ICT Strategy to include a Cloud Computing Strategy which aims to relieve agencies of the burden of owning and operating of costly ICT assets.
29 May, 2014
Anger and accusations fly over why an official investigation took nine months with little detail of what damage was caused.
15 April, 2014
Catastrophic floods delivered harsh and real lessons for Queenslanders about how to deal with the forces of nature. Now the Newman government is trying to put that knowledge and experience to work by creating a disaster management training course.
11 April, 2014
The Campbell Newman government has entered a new deal with computer giant Microsoft to deliver cloud-based software to public sector offices.
10 April, 2014
Queensland Premier Campbell Newman wants to flush away excess water projects to the private sector to pay off debt and save on maintenance costs.
3 April, 2014
All too familiar with the physical and economic devastation that floods inflict, Queensland’s Newman government is now moving to substantially bolster water holding capacity to limit any potential future damage.
2 April, 2014
The anticipated growth of freight rail use over the next decade has led the Queensland government to look for a new operator to manage heavier and more frequent loads.
31 March, 2014
A federal government commitment to flood-proof Queensland’s Bruce Highway is being predictably hailed by the Campbell Newman government.
13 March, 2014
The small community of Mossman is fighting back hard against the big retailer’s attempt to redefine their town’s streetscape by dictating what kind of infrastructure gets built.
13 March, 2014
Queensland Premier Campbell Newman has flown to the United States to see first hand how a collaboration between the Queensland University of Technology and the California Institute of Technology can help mitigate and better manage natural disasters.
10 March, 2014
By Julian Bajkowski The New South Wales government has liquidated its 100 per cent shareholding in corporatised IT infrastructure and cloud computing broker, the Australian Centre for Advanced Computing and Communication (ac3) in a sale that Minister for Finance and Services Andrew Constance said was above the government-owned vendor’s “retention value”. The government-owned tech services […]
19 December, 2013
By Paul Hemsley Queensland public servants have won a long awaited pay rise of 2.2 per cent per year over three years after the Newman government gave tactical ground in drawn out dispute with unions over what constituted “fair and reasonable” salary increases. The pay rise will be given to 48,000 Queensland public servants covered […]
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