Technology

Seniors Insight - WiFi to shared streaming log-ins – how secure are your passwords

LOOKING at how travelers stay connected during their holidays, a cyber security expert reviews how security can slip through the cracks.

Staff Writers

01 Oct 2025

Technology

Lithium ion battery fires surge in Ipswich

LITHIUM-ion batteries in everyday household devices are behind a surge in residential fires across Queensland.

Rob Mellett

17 Sep 2025

Property

Solar installers struggle amid battery rebate delays

SOLAR installer Alan Kemp says federal rebate delays are threatening the survival of small and medium-sized businesses in the industry.

Rob Mellett

10 Sep 2025

Agriculture

Fire ant program slammed over GMO bait silence

THE Queensland Government has known for at least a year that fire ant baits being spread across southeast Queensland include genetically modified ingredients – but only admitted it last week.

Rob Mellett

03 Sep 2025

Ipswich Tribune

Chaz Mostert gives digital safety lessons at ISHS

SUPERCARS gun Chaz Mostert visited Ipswich State High School last week to deliver a lesson on online safety and digital wellbeing to students as part of Optus’s Digital Thumbprint Program.

Rob Mellett

13 Aug 2025

City Life

Hot water method achieves total fire ant eradication

A PILOT study in Ipswich and Logan has confirmed a chemical-free method for destroying red imported fire ants is not only safe but highly effective.

Rob Mellett

13 Aug 2025

Technology

Ipswich projects highlighted in jobs scheme overhaul

IPSWICH will benefit from a major $47.7 million investment in workforce training, as part of the first round of the State Government’s overhauled Skilling Queenslanders for Work initiative for 2025–26.

Rob Mellett

06 Aug 2025

Technology

Government pressed to explain unusual aircraft trails

ANXIETIES surrounding geoengineering and atmospheric intervention techniques – popularly referred to as “chemtrails” and “cloud seeding” – are gaining attention locally and globally.

Rob Mellett

18 Jun 2025

Business

Lower Mt Walker group’s fight to stop industrial BESS

The Lower Mount Walker Community Action Group sum up the year in their own words and say how they feel they have been left in the dark by Libra Energy which is behind the push for industrial solar in the area.

Rob Mellett

18 Dec 2024

Business

Free falling into PNG war tribute

AUSTRALIAN Army personnel recently parachuted into Papua New Guinea for the 80th anniversary of the World War II Nadzab Landings.

Rob Mellett

13 Dec 2023

Development

Popular drink lines head to Ipswich

TWO of Suntory’s most popular lines, energy drink V Energy and alcoholic beverage Suntory -196, will be the first brands to be made at its new plant in Ipswich. The $400 million manufacturing and distribution facility at Swanbank is expected to...

Brian Bennion

29 Nov 2023

Ipswich

AI tech keeps eye out for koalas

PIONEERING researchers at the forefront of saving the koala have welcomed a funding boost for extra AI technology to map the marsupial’s movements.

Rob Mellett

11 Oct 2023

Rural Review

Is 3D printed food an answer to curbing waste?

IF YOU think 3D printed food exists only within the realms of futuristic possibilities, you’d be wrong.

Lara Hart

23 Aug 2023

City Life

Local business’ war on waste helps environment

MORE than 50 tonnes worth of car batteries per year has been saved from landfill in the last 14 years thanks to a recycling initiative launched by Battery World Ipswich.

Brian Bennion

26 Jul 2023

Technology

Aged care builds on success of TV projects

LEADING national aged care provider Infinite Care has partnered with Intergenerational Learning Australia to launch an online intergenerational program with Gold Coast school Coomera Anglican College.

Staff Writers

13 Jun 2023

Ipswich

CSI works to address problem gambling

CLUB Services Ipswich has joined more than 50 clubs in adopting OK2PLAY? technology to address problem gambling.

Brian Bennion

24 May 2023

Technology

Drone deliveries take flight

CALIFORNIA-based aviation company Wing began drone delivery services in the Springfield region last week.

Staff Writers

27 Apr 2023

Technology

Toys make the naughty list

THE Office of Fair Trading has identified 17 unsafe toys on the market during this year’s Operation Safe Christmas.

Brian Bennion

21 Dec 2022

Technology

Springfield in shopping drones plan

SPRINGFIELD Central will play host to a futuristic shopping experience next year due to a collaboration between leading property group Mirvac and on-demand drone delivery service Wing.

Rob Mellett

09 Nov 2022