Category: Brisbane

Snails, stink bugs add to shocking two-year new car delays

Snails and stink bugs are keeping close to 1900 new cars at bay off Brisbane’s coast, adding to a “perfect storm” of delays that’s forcing customers to wait up to two years for

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City of Melbourne includes Carlton’s Brutalist Cardigan House car park on heritage review

“Some of these buildings are very sculptural and beautiful,” he said. “They are important from an embodied energy and materials perspective as well. Retaining existing structures is important from an environmental perspective.” Wagner

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Too much sex is killing quolls, and now we know why – Brisbane Times

Queensland researchers have discovered why quolls are dropping dead after marathon sex sessions, and it is giving them clues on better ways to conserve the species. Researchers from the University of the Sunshine

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Former Holden factory to be reborn as a mushroom farm – report

The factory which produced millions of Holdens for more than 50 years will be used to grow mushrooms, with annual production forecast to net 20,000 tonnes of the edible fungus. View 3 images The

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Driver killed, child critical after three-car Gippsland collision

A child is in a critical condition and a driver is dead after three cars collided in Gippsland on Tuesday. The cars crashed at the intersection of Traralgon-Maffra Road and Farmers Road in

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Tesla opens 5 NSW Superchargers to other brand Electric Cars

Tesla is now allowing other brands of electric cars to use 5 of its New South Wales supercharger locations. This unexpected move seems to be a trial as all the locations are in

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Record-High Car Thefts Calls For Crackdown On Youth Crime

The State Government faces more pressure to crack down on youth crime after data found about half of the vehicles stole in Queensland in the last financial year were by youth offenders. More

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My first, my best and my worst cars

I snapped it up. That turned out to be a no-brain decision. One night, a girl I was driving around with dropped an earring and lifted the passenger-side mat to search for it.

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Key issues for this year from electric vehicles to extinctions

Australian gas prices soared, and wholesale electricity costs reached their highest levels on record. In response, the federal government introduced gas and coal price caps in December it claims are working: recent Treasury

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You can change the technology, but you can’t change the people

Over the Christmas break some EV charging facilities had the expected queues during peak times. This also happens at fuel stations, but that’s not going to stop some sections of the media highlighting

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