Modelling by the CSIRO shows that even the installation of 10 upstream “detention” basins would not have saved Lismore during the record-breaking floods of 2022. The organisation has been running scenarios through its super-computer in Canberra to test how flooding would be reduced in northern NSW towns devastated by the 2022 floods. Loading… They include…
Jeff Bezos’ ex-wife MacKenzie Scott has given over $26,300,000,000 to charity, Elon Musk responds Tech tycoon Elon Musk has stirred a row after saying record-breaking, multi-billion-dollar philanthropic campaign of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos‘ ex-wife, MacKenzie Scott is harming society instead of doing charity.The contoversey erupted following reports that MacKenzie Scott has now distributed more than…
Greg English is ropeable that the drive to his local MP’s electorate office will go from taking just 15 minutes to potentially more than 11 hours. The fourth-generation dairy farmer lives in the Far North Queensland seat of Hill, which will be abolished at the next state election in a redistribution announced this week. Hill…
Pushkar Singh Dhami set to become first BJP CM to complete five consecutive years in Uttarakhand Uttarakhand Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami will create history on July 4, becoming the first BJP Chief Minister in the state to complete a continuous five-year tenure in office.Before him, veteran Congress leader the late Narayan Dutt Tiwari was…
Biosphere 2, artificial closed ecological system. Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Eight people stepped into an airlock in the Arizona desert on the 26th of September, 1991, and stepped into something that was to be an example of the human future. Biosphere 2 was a massive enclosed system designed to test whether people could survive in…
A life jacket, an oar and a plastic bucket stopped “Stinker” from becoming a sinker, and today the 77-year-old was reunited with the rescuers who saved his life. John Clarke, known locally as “Stinker”, thought he was heading out for a routine fish when he launched his tinnie off Port Stephens on June 24. The…
Many consumers are choosing to cash in on their holdings and lock in gains instead. (AI image) Gold selling spree! Fearing that gold prices have peaked out, Indian households are rushing to sell their old gold to cash out before prices fall too much from record highs seen earlier this year. Indian households are increasingly…
The value of Australia’s horticulture sector has more than doubled in a decade. Fruit, vegetable and nut production was worth $19.5 billion dollars in the 2024/25 financial year, according to data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics. Lucy Noble, head of industry insights at research and marketing body Hort Innovation, said the record result was…
NEW DELHI: United States ambassador to India Sergio Gor on Tuesday rejected row over renaming of the Indo-Pacific Command and said that “name on the letterhead” does not matter.While addressing the US-India Strategic Partnership Forum Leadership summit, Gor said India still conducts more military exercises with the US than any other country and has regular…
A 28-year-old garment trader in Faridabad allegedly died by suicide, posting a video accusing his wife and her family of abuse GURGAON: A 28-year-old garment trader allegedly died by suicide by hanging himself inside his shop in Faridabad’s Ballabhgarh area on Sunday after posting a video on Instagram in which he accused his wife and…