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TESS BROOKS Last week Woolworths announced they would begin phasing out all caged eggs sold in-store by 2018, including home brand products.. The announcement was made as part of a new partnership with Chef Jamie Oliver which, Woolworths … [Read more...]
TESS BROOKS NASA have ended their search for spacecraft Deep Impact, after losing contact with the vessel last month. Contact was lost on 8 August and mission controllers spent several weeks attempting, to no avail, to reactivate the … [Read more...]
TESS BROOKS On a hot spring morning in the beginning of September, New Zealand writer Kate De Goldi speaks at the State Library of Queensland about her 25-year-old daughter's progression in the world of construction and her recent nomination … [Read more...]
TESS BROOKS The Brisbane Writer’s Festival (BWF) wrapped up on Monday after a week of events and talks by a talented collection of authors and illustrators. BWF director and CEO Kate Eltham said the festival kicked off last Wednesday with 'Word … [Read more...]
TESS BROOKS The fifth national R U OK? Day will be held next Thursday September 12 with the foundation urging Australians get involved and ask a friend or family member ‘are you ok?’ A study conducted by the R U OK? Foundation revealed more … [Read more...]
TESS BROOKS Queensland Health are urging the public to “be alert but not alarmed” as another eight people potentially infected with Shiga toxin-producing E.Coli, or STEC, came forward earlier this week. An alert was issued by chief health … [Read more...]
TESS BROOKS Saturday saw Brisbane’s Queens Park adorned in rainbows as up to 1000 people gathered to support marriage equality in a rally organised by Equal Love Brisbane. The crowd gathered to hear from several guest speakers before marching … [Read more...]
TESS BROOKS Researchers at Curtin University in Perth have begun conducting Australia’s first nation-wide study into the mental health of transgender and transsexual people. Over a 12 month period in 2007 it was discovered that trans people … [Read more...]
TESS BROOKS European car manufacturer Opel has announced it will cease operation after less than a year in the Australian automotive market. The auto manufacturer has ended all operations and commenced the closing down of networks across their … [Read more...]
TESS BROOKS ON Sunday night, Ella Yelich-O’Connor, aka Lorde, impressed punters of Splendour in the Grass, filling a headlining spot vacated earlier in the week by American R’n'B artist Frank Ocean. Ocean pulled out of the festival after … [Read more...]
