All posts tagged "Queensland"
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444News and ViewsQUT joins forces with new Brisbane school to deliver high-quality education
QUT is lending its expertise in education and research to Brisbane’s first new inner-city school to open in 50 years.
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904News and ViewsTAFE upgrade and free apprenticeships support Townsville jobs
The QLD Government is backing Townsville jobs by investing in TAFE and covering the cost to train apprentices.
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856Science and TechnologyLike to carry out some CAV research but need a car and research team?
In partnership with the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads (TMR), Queensland University of Technology’s (QUT) Australian Centre of Robotic Vision...
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2.6KHealth and MedicineScholarship to keep local doctors in the region
The University of Queensland has announced a new scholarship intended to train and keep future doctors in Bundaberg.
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877Who's WhoSouth East Queensland’s top training achievers named at training awards
An auto mechanic has been named as South East Queensland’s top apprentice of the year after turning her interest in working on...
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933News and Views
Downs apprentices bolstering electricity industry
Queensland’s electricity industry has its eye firmly on the future with 119 apprentices, including 17 in the Downs region, kicking off careers...
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702News and ViewsIntegrated land use and transport modelling
The QLD Department of Transport and Main Roads (DTMR) are currently investigating developing the capability within DTMR to implement an integrated land...
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916Science and TechnologyQueensland green lights Hold the Red trial
In a bid to lessen the number of car accidents at intersections, the Queensland Department of Transport and Main Roads and Queensland...
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972News and ViewsHand back the keys, AgForce tells Government
AgForce Queensland Farmers has demanded the Queensland Government hand the agricultural colleges at Longreach and Emerald back to industry if their bureaucracy...
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1.2KNews and ViewsIndustry ignored in closure of Ag colleges
Queensland broadacre agriculture’s peak body, AgForce Queensland Farmers, is furious it has been ignored by the QLD Government around the closure of...
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Pots of gold engineered to help with early disease detection - GetSTEM
University of Queensland researchers have developed biosensors that use nanoengineered porous gold which more effectively detect early signs of disease, improving patient outcomes. Most diagnostic methods use costly materials and are time-consuming and expensive to run, but PhD candidate Mostafa Mas...
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Native stinging tree toxins match the pain of spiders and cone snails - GetSTEM
The painful toxins wielded by a giant Australian stinging tree are surprisingly similar to the toxins found in spiders and cone snails, University of Queensland researchers have found. The Gympie-Gympie stinging tree is one of the world’s most venomous plants and causes extreme long-lasting pain. ...
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Genetic secrets of kangaroo paws to be revealed - GetSTEM
Western Australian kangaroo paws are under the microscope as part of a quest to understand more about this iconic flower. Dr David Field from Edith Cowan University’s School of Science is leading an international research team assembling the first kangaroo paw genome. He said the project would ope...
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FLEXible use case – enhancing the Tonsley shuttle trial - GetINDUSTRY
Using the lessons learnt from the Flinders Express (FLEX) autonomous shuttle trial conducted at the Tonsley Innovation District by Flinders University, the Department for Infrastructure and Transport, RAA and other industry supporters, this project will deliver new and innovative use cases for FLEX....
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Asthma patients given risky levels of steroid tablets - GetSTEM
More than one quarter of asthma patients have been prescribed potentially dangerous amounts of steroid tablets, with researchers warning this puts them at greater risk of serious side-effects. Researchers, led by University of Queensland Professor John Upham, analysed data from the Pharmaceutical Be...
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