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- Agriculture Farming Rural, Government VIC
- 30/10/2025
- 12:30
Victorian Farmers encouraged not to stress debt alone
Victorian Small Business Commissioner Lynda McAlary-Smith is encouraging Victorian farmers experiencing financial hardship to seek support with their situation to plan a way forward,…
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- Employment Relations, Government NSW
- 30/10/2025
- 12:27
*** MEDIA ALERT *** Prison officers walk off job after prisoner who bashed four officers given ‘slap on the wrist’
WHAT: Prison officers union leaders speak to media WHEN: 1.30pm WHERE: 'Tree of Truth', behindNSW Parliament WHY: Statewide strike by prison officers Prison officers walk off job after prisoner who bashed four officers given ‘slap on the wrist’ Prison officers at Cessnock Correctional Centre have walked off the job after a prisoner who based four of their colleagues went unpunished by a controversial Magistrate yesterday and is set to be released back into the community. Prison officers at Bathurst Correctional Centre have also walked off the job with prison officers at all of the state’s 36 prisons are likely to…
- Employment Relations, Oil Mining Resources
- 30/10/2025
- 12:22
Gupta’s Excuses Insult Workers’ Intelligence
The Mining and Energy Union has slammed Sanjeev Gupta’s latest attempt to justify months of unpaid bills at Tahmoor Colliery as “a slap in the face to every worker at Tahmoor and every family that’s carried the cost of his chaos.” MEU South Western District President Bob Timbs said Gupta’s reply to the union’s letter of concern, blaming the Diwali holidays for the long string of missed payments to contractor RStar, shows just how delusional and unfit to hold the mine lease he is. “Diwali has been celebrated for thousands of years. It’s not a new public holiday that caught…
- Environment, Government Federal
- 30/10/2025
- 12:19
WWF calls on parliament to pass strong nature laws that close deforestation loopholes
WWF-Australia has called on parliament to strengthen reforms to Australia’s environment laws and close loopholes that allow native forests to be bulldozed and threaten iconic places like the Great Barrier Reef. Environment Minister Murray Watt has today tabled legislation designed to fix the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC). WWF-Australia’s CEO, Dermot O’Gorman, said: “We welcome the introduction of the government’s nature reform package, but as it stands the proposed legislation must be strengthened to ensure it does what it says on the tin: protect nature. “As this legislation moves through parliament, we urge all politicians to tackle the…
- Energy
- 30/10/2025
- 12:12
Business fined $23,077 for breaching Victorian Energy Upgrades program consumer protections
NRGPAL Pty Ltd has been fined $23,077 for allegedly breaching consumer protections in the Victorian Energy Upgrades (VEU) program. The VEU program is an energy efficiency program, designed to help Victorians cut their energy bills and lower greenhouse gas emissions. Accredited businesses undertake energy efficiency upgrades that entitle them to create Victorian energy efficiency certificates, which they can then sell. NRGPAL is a contractor that does work on behalf of VEU accredited businesses, known as a ‘scheme participant’. This is the first time the Essential Services Commission has issued penalties against a scheme participant. The commission alleges that NRGPAL failed…
- Technology Innovation
- 30/10/2025
- 12:12
Yokogawa to Deliver Integrated Control Systems for Urban Infrastructure in Green Riyadh Project
– Contributing to a national urban afforestation initiative that aims to transform the Saudi capital into one of the world’s most livable cities –…
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- Environment, Political
- 30/10/2025
- 12:11
Risks outweigh gains in nature reform bills tabled today
Humane World for Animals Australia says risks to nature outweigh the gains in long anticipated reforms to Australia’s nature laws, tabled in parliament today. Having previewed the amendments to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation (EPBC) Act tabled today, Humane World for Animals Australia’s Director, Campaigns, Nicola Beynon says the Government hasn’t got the balance right. “As the bills are currently written, the risks to nature outweigh the gains,” says MsBeynon. “We are calling on the Parliament to negotiate amendments to strengthen the bills so that we can be confident that nature will not end up worse off. “The big…
- Business Company News, Oil Mining Resources
- 30/10/2025
- 11:52
Patriot (ASX:PAT) Expands Copper-Gold Footprint with Successful Completion of Phase 1 Trenching at Kitumba
HIGHLIGHTS: Phase 1 trenching program completed at Target B1 within the Kitumba Project, with344m excavated from a planned total program of 600m. …
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- Environment
- 30/10/2025
- 11:32
Powering the future: Ho Chi Minh City’s roadmap to industrial transition
Decarbonising Vietnam's booming industrial sector is critical to securing future economic success in the race to net zero. A new report from Monash University's Climateworks Centreoutlines a bespokeroadmap to transform Ho Chi Minh City – the nation's economic heartbeat – into a net zero industrial precinct (NZIP). The concept of an NZIP is fairly simple; stakeholders working together to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and achieve net zero within a specific geographic zone. Rather than a single industry, company or government operating in a silo, everyone works together – building on the efficiencies offered by shared infrastructure, technology and investment –…
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