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Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain First Nations people, please be advised this article speaks of racially discriminating moments in history, including the distress and death of First Nations people. A pillar of the Uluru Statement from the Heart is truth-telling. This is easy to say, but not easy to do. Truth-telling involves the…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The number of Queensland women and children experiencing homelessness would now be much higher than the just-released Census data due to the impact of COVID, population movement into the state, lack of supply of affordable housing and cost of living pressures says a QUT academic. On Census night…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Researchers at The University of Queensland have found young adults and baby boomers are bearing the brunt of Queensland's housing affordability crisis. …

Queensland, which has the highest dependence on coal of any Australian state, has announced that it will spend AU $776 million (US $500 million) to build Australia’s largest publicly owned wind farm. The Tarong West wind farm will be sited in Ironpot, 30 kilometers (18.6 miles) southwest of Kingaroy, in the South Burnett Region. It’s within the Southern Queensland Renewable Energy Zone, which is one of three regions designated by the state to accelerate renewables projects. The 500-megawatt project will feature up…

Petrographic evidence. Evidence for UHP metamorphism: garnet inclusions and exsolution mineralogy. (A) Numerous orthogonal inclusions comprising carbonates (calcite, aragonite, dolomite, and Mg calcite), graphite, and microdiamonds. (B) Radial decompression fractures surrounding quartz interpreted to have formed after coesite. Fractures infilled by later chlorite. (C) Oriented inclusion trails and crystallographically controlled exsolution of rutile.…