Many parts of Australia have worked hard to attract migrants to help boost the population and ageing workforces, but many like Rosan Bhattarai are now without a source of income because they are on temporary visas and can't get access to the JobKeeper program.

Who can enter Queensland has changed. As of Saturday August 8 Queensland's borders will close to people coming from Victoria, New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory.

The Queensland Government hands Dreamworld's parent company a $70 million funding boost to reopen after the pandemic forced them to close their doors for several months.

Record high gold prices and closed borders spark a boom in gold prospecting in Western Australia's Goldfields region, and metal detectors are flying off shelves around the state.

New evidence of a platypus population emerges amid a development boom on the city's urban fringe.

The US President says the Saudis will be punished if they are found to be involved with the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi, but that halting arms sales to the country would only hurt Americans.

LISTED healthcare providers took a battering on the local bourse yesterday.

New Hope is banking on strong Asian thermal coal demand as it looks at opportunities despite a $21.8m loss.

AUSTRALIA’s economy won’t grow strongly enough next year to warrant an interest rate rise, RBA board member John Edwards says.

SUNRICE has forecast a 40 per cent lift in full-year profit.

The RBA fears the flood of apartment developments has left the economy vulnerable to a global shock.

The data company’s new tie-up may be its first step towards an eventual float, and an advertising ‘holy grail’.

The Dow Jones index briefly hit a new record of 23,000 but has since retreated slightly, while the Australian share market is headed for a slightly lower open.

Just three months after tipping a year of prosperity, the International Monetary Fund expects more than 170 nations will have negative per capita income growth as coronavirus batters markets this year.

Qantas says uncertainty around COVID-19 in Sydney and border restrictions will delay the start date of three new routes in regional NSW.

A federal parliamentary inquiry has heard Rio Tinto did not tell traditional owners there were three other options which would have spared the Juukan Gorge rock shelters from destruction in May.

Many Queensland families are currently having to travel interstate to give their loved ones a natural burial, but now more councils are looking at providing it as an option at their cemeteries.

Construction of Sydney's second international airport officially begins today, with the Prime Minister calling it the "biggest game changer" for the city since the Harbour Bridge.

Rio Tinto has flagged its exit from uranium mining in Australia after a chequered 61-year involvement.

THE crumbling Pie Face fast-food chain has been hit with a second lawsuit in the US.