BRISBANE, Queensland, March 14 -- The Queensland Cabinet issued text of the following statement: Minister for Health and Ambulance Services The Honourable Tim Nicholls A Fresh Start for Queensland: New Bill to put clinicians in charge and destroy illegal vapes * The Crisafulli Government delivers on promise to give local clinicians a stronger voice in managing public hospitals. * TheCrisafulli Government's Health Legislation Amendment Bill 2025 will require that all Hospital and Health Boa...
BRISBANE, Queensland, March 14 -- The Queensland Cabinet issued text of the following statement: Minister for Natural Resources and Mines, Minister for Manufacturing and Minister for Regional and Rural Development The Honourable Dale Last Australian-first coal extraction tech to drive jobs growth in Central Queensland * Australian-first as high-tech HW300 Highwall Miner coal extractor powers up in Bowen Basin. * Investment in thetechnology is a vote-of-confidence in the Crisafulli Governmen...
CANBERRA, ACT, March 14 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: Editor's Note: arrest vision is available via Hightail A western Sydney man is expected to appear in Penrith Local Court today (14 March, 2025) charged with online child abuse material offences. The AFP's Child Protection Operations team charged the man, 47, yesterday (13 March, 2025) at his Cranebrook home. The AFP allegedly identified the man following a report from the United States' National Center f...
CANBERRA, ACT, March 14 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: This is a joint release between Australian Federal Police and Royal Malaysia Police Editor's note: Images and visionavailable via Hightail The AFP has charged a Melbourne man for his alleged role in an unsuccessful scheme to import methamphetamine infused in paraffin wax destined for Australia. This marks the first charges laid under a new taskforce between the AFP and Royal Malaysian Police to combat in...
CANBERRA, ACT, March 14 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: AFP Commissioner Reece Kershaw APM and Fiji Police Force (FPF) Commissioner Rusiate Tudravu have signed a new agreement to enhance cross-border operations. The Commissioners signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Suva, Fiji, on Monday (3 March, 2025) that builds on the long-standing partnership between the AFP and the FPF. As part of the MoU, the AFP will support the FPF deliver projects to boo...
BRISBANE, Queensland, March 14 -- Queensland Police Service issued the following media release: The Queensland Police Service (QPS) celebrates a significant milestone today, welcoming 155 new police officers into its ranks in the largest graduation ceremony in 33 years. The graduating cohort includes recruits who are new to policing and those with previous policing experience, all strengthening the service with a dynamic and diverse set of skills and backgrounds. Last week, the officers comme...
CANBERRA, ACT, March 13 -- Australian Federal Police issued the following media release: An AFP employee will appear before the ACT Magistrates Court today (13 March, 2025). The member is charged with one count of exceeding the prescribed concentration of alcohol, contrary to section 19(1) of the Road Transport (Alcohol and Drugs) Act 1977 (ACT). The alleged offence occurred on Thursday, 19 December, 2024. ACT Policing issued a summons for the member to appear before court. The AFP is commit...
SYDNEY, March 13 -- Australian Prudential Regulation Authority issued the following media release: The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has varied the additional licence conditions imposed on BUSS (Queensland) Pty Ltd as the trustee for The Building Unions Superannuation Scheme (Queensland) (BUSSQ). The conditions, imposed on 13 August 2024, require BUSSQ to appoint an independent third party to review BUSSQ's fit and proper processes and expenditure management practices. The ...
SYDNEY, March 13 -- Australian Prudential Regulation Authority issued the following media release: The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) has released the Quarterly Authorised Deposit-taking Institution (ADI) Performance and the Quarterly ADI Property Exposures publications for the quarter ending 31 December 2024. Key statistics for ADIs1 for the December 2024 quarter were: Dec 2023 Dec2024 Year-on-year change Net profit after tax (year-end) ($bn)39.5 39.6 0.4% Total as...
SYDNEY, March 12 -- Australian Prudential Regulation Authority issued the following media release: The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) added ten new and revised two frequently asked questions (FAQs) and added two new worked examples for the Superannuation Data Transformation (SDT) project. The SDT FAQs and worked examples are available on the APRA website: Frequently Asked Questions - Superannuation Data Transformation. Disclaimer: Curated by HT Syndication....