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Toowoomba reaches men's final at long last

AFTER four years of finishing third, just making the final at the men's state softball championship was a win for Toowoomba. The Toowoomba men went into the state championship at Redlands at the weekend on the back of four straight years of falling ... >> view original

Toowoomba city bypass project scoops engineering award

TOOWOOMBA Regional Council has been recognised for engineering excellence, winning this year's Institute of Public Works Engineering Australasia major awards. Council's Outer Circulating Road and Garnet Lehmann Park Detention Basin projects were ... >> view original

Traditional owners want Toowoomba second range crossing redesigned

A team of archaeologists and traditional owners have been digging in the area around the Helidon Hills, close to where the 41km bypass will meet with the Warrego Highway, east of Toowoomba. "That lookout needs to be preserved," project manager James ... >> view original

Cannabis campaign about justice for Toowoomba woman

A MEDICAL cannabis campaigner in Toowoomba says justice is the main motivator for her as she fights for change. The Federal Government announced on Saturday it would seek to allow the controlled cultivation of cannabis for medicinal or scientific ... >> view original

ABC On The Road to Toowoomba

Some of the ABC's best known national programs will be On The Road and heading to Toowoomba in Queensland. For one week from October 26, a number of ABC journalists, presenters and crew will join the local ABC Toowoomba team to produced their ... >> view original

'We need to start acting now': Australian scientist takes killer robot ban ...

The Terminator analogies are inevitable, but Toby Walsh says we're still a good 50 years away from having killer robots quite as sophisticated as that. In fact, it's the "stupid" nature of technologies being used in the so-called "third wave" of ... >> view original

Big-time elephant poaching on the way

Elephants are moving towards the top of the poachers' hit list - the number shot has increased in the past two years. Save & Share. Email · Print. The number of elephants killed is still small compared to that of rhinos but it could indicate a trend ... >> view original

Mars water refloats case for space exploration

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover vehicle on the Red Planet in August. Photo: EPA/NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS. 19 Oct 2015. Alex Economou. The recent discovery by NASA of water flowing on present-day Mars will not only make a manned journey to the planet ... >> view original

World's largest protected marine area could soon be declared by international ...

An international meeting in Hobart will consider a proposal to create the world's biggest marine protected area. For the fifth consecutive year, the Commission for Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) will consider establishing ... >> view original

Robot speeds up next-gen materials testing

The CSIRO has launched a new, super-fast robot that can automatically screen and evaluate next generation materials around the clock. Launched on Monday, the robot, called FASTER, provides Australian companies with an advanced electrochemical ... >> view original