Queensland’s tourism industry has received a boost with China Southern Airlines adding another flight to Brisbane and adding another Chinese city to the route, Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has announced.
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Australia’s biggest ever cotton harvest is underway in NSW and QLD. Cotton Australia predicts the Australian harvest will top four million bales this season, deliverying $2.3 billion to the industry.
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Queensland Premier Anna Bligh has announced a new slogan to boost tourism after a summer of natural disasters. ‘Nothing beats Queensland’ will headline a $10 million tourism campaign targeting media around the world in a bid to attract visitors back to the sunshine state. Bligh said the campaign will promote the “unbeatable” Queensland spirit. “Just [...]
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The damage from heavy rain, flooding and Cyclone Yasi to Queensland’s sugar cane crops has left growers unable to meet export contracts. With more sugar forward-sold than the industry has actually produced, cane growers face sharing the costs of servicing contracts with imported sugar. Marketing organisation Queensland Sugar Limited (QSL), which exports 90 percent of [...]
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Freight company Maersk has advised that with closure of the Port of Brisbane export of goods overseas from the port has come to a standstill. General manager of Port of Brisbane operations Peter Kyte has advised port businesses to consider sending home non-essential staff or ceasing operations, according to their risk assessment. The port closed [...]
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Queensland’s Export Week for 2010 celebrates the state’s booming economy and increasing international trade. According to Queensland Minister for Trade Stephen Robertson, the week-long event highlights the contribution of exports to the state’s coffers, including almost $43 billion in merchandise trade. “Export Week is organised each year by Trade and Investment Queensland to focus on [...]
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Agricultural representative body Agforce will aim to rebuild ties with Russia regarding kangaroo meat exports when the the new Russian trade commissioner to Australia Yuri Aleshinon arrives in Australia next week. The Queensland organisation will take advantage of Russia’s renewed interest in Australia’s kangaroo and red meat markets, and hopes to provide strong bilateral agricultural [...]
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If the shoe fits, wear it all summer. That’s one message you could take from Holster Fashion‘s products. “We wanted an alternative to a leather shoe, one a lady could wear on the beach all day, walk through the water in and then throw on a dress and go out to dinner in the same [...]
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More than $500 million will be invested into the expansion of coal facilities in Central Queensland. The BHP Billiton Mitsubishi Alliance (BMA) announced it will begin final feasibility studies for the Caval Ridge Coal Mine and Hay Point Stage 3 Expansion projects. Queensland Resources Council CEO Michael Roche said that the addition of some 8 [...]
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Learning a foreign language will become compulsory in Queensland schools once again after the government re-stated their position on Languages Other Than English (LOTE). Queensland newspaper The Courier-Mail revealed that the Queensland Department of Education and Training “had quietly allowed principals to opt out of teaching LOTE in Years 6, 7 and 8 – the [...]
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