Queensland Premier Campbell Newman wants to flush away excess water projects to the private sector to pay off debt and save on maintenance costs.
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iPads becoming standard issue for Queensland cops
Radio requests and paperwork back at the station are gradually becoming obsolete as police face the digital future.
Engineers claim $200bn in risky coastal assets urgently need climate change plan
Design standards and asset management plans will have to change with the weather say works experts.
Queensland to upsize key dams and build new ones to mitigate future flood disasters
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.
Campbelltown Council and SITA deploy soy sipping trucks
Sydney’s Campbelltown City Council has taken on more clean and green biofuel garbage trucks as it tries to drive down both costs and carbon emissions.
Barnett peddles final bicycle network plan to the public
Urban planning over the next two decades in Western Australia will focus heavily on creating an environment friendly to cyclists in the Colin Barnett government’s ambitious new Bicycle Network Plan.
Weather forecasts to go real time for Sydney Ports
The NSW government’s port authority in Sydney has acquired technology that can help protect cargo ships and cruise vessels by predicting bad weather.
Melbourne’s extremely heated discussion creates City’s first Chief Resilience Officer
Metropolitan strategies for dealing with blistering summer temperatures have business and resident survival squarely in their sights.
Queensland hunts for new freight rail operator
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.
Abetz finally forced to negotiating table over pay says CPSU
The government is poised to up its pay offer to public servants from nothing at all to a below inflation pay increase as talks begin in earnest.