Tag Archive for Australia

Stone Fruit Supply Concerns Ease in Time for Christmas

Aussies can expect to enjoy high-quality stonefruit this Christmas, as supply concerns ease. Farmers are confident consumers will see an increased supply of high-quality, sweet tasting fruit over the holiday season, with decreased rainfall and warmer weather improving growing conditions. This increased confidence comes after a difficult start to the growing season, where widespread floods…

Rewiring Australia Welcomes Federal Government’s Plan to Electrify Homes and Businesses

Rewiring Australia says the federal government’s plan to help electrify homes and businesses will drive down inflation while saving the planet and Australian households money. The government has brokered a deal with the Greens to support businesses and households replace gas with electrification systems, in a package to be developed for the May 2023 Budget.…

Prime Video Announces The Test Season 2

Prime Video, Cricket Australia, and Whooshka Media have announced the launch date and released the official trailer for the second season of incredibly popular Australian Amazon Original docuseries The Test. Following The Test Season One, Prime Video Australia’s most successful sports series to date, Season Two will offer rare, behind-the-scenes insight into the Australian men’s…

The Bluesberries Launch Song For Ukraine

Australian band The Bluesberries have launched a song they recorded with more than 70 musicians in four cities across the world to raise money for people displaced by the Ukraine war. Band members Daniel Fallon (musician and BBC journalist), Paul Beard (composer, producer and keyboardist) and John McMurtrie AM (Australian entrepreneur and musician) began writing…

Paralympic athlete Isis Holt Announces Retirement

Paralympic athlete Isis Holt has today announced her retirement from competitive athletics after a career which saw her win five Paralympic medals, four world titles and Commonwealth Games gold. One of the world’s leading T35 sprinters who shattered nine world records throughout her career, 21-year-old Holt will now turn her attention to her next chapter…

Brightening up Sydney Building Sites

Ten new large-scale artworks will soon adorn protective fencing around the city’s busiest construction zones thanks to the City of Sydney’s creative hoarding program. Lord Mayor Clover Moore said in a bid to enliven Sydney streets, developers building in high traffic areas are required to cover their hoardings with art by a living Australian artist…

Australia Post Resumes Inbound International Sea Mail

Australia Post today announced the resumption of inbound international sea mail from Monday 21 November 2022. Australia Post’s Group Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director Paul Graham  explained that Sea mail entering Australia from overseas was temporarily suspended from 1 October 2022. Australia Post continued to accept mail that had been sent to Australia by…

Camp Australia’s Rocketeers Film Festival

Sunday (November 13) saw the second Online Premiere of Camp Australia’s Rocketeers Film Festival – a showcase of the best and brightest short animation films by 5,500 young Australians aged 6–12. In partnership with StarTime and the Children’s International Film Festival, the initiative was spearheaded by Camp Australia, Australia’s largest Outside School Hours Care (OSHC)…