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Premium Content Subscriber only The Maroons will have a chance to defend their shield on home soil this year with confirmation the women’s event will return to the region. The Maroons were victorious with a 24-18 win over New South Wales at the stadium last year. NRL CEO Andrew Abdo said the Sunshine Coast deserved to host the Women’s State of Origin again following the success of 2020. “Women’s Origin is one of the highlights of our calendar and we’re excited to see it return to the Sunshine Coast,” Mr Abdo said. “Last year’s game was an incredible suc...

Queensland captain Ali Brigginshaw is stoked the Sunshine Coast will again play host to the Women's Origin clash on June 25 after last year's fixture was disrupted by COVID-19 restrictions.  The Maroons will have their chance to defend their breakthrough title win in front of a possible capacity home crowd after the NRL confirmed on Tuesday the women's Ampol State of Origin would be played in the Sunshine State for another year. Brigginshaw played an instrumental part in last year's 24-18 victory over NSW on home turf after their arch-rivals claimed the previous two Origin matches at North S...

Premium Content Subscriber only The employment of a councillor's wife at University of the Sunshine Coast put local government representatives in a difficult situation while considering conflicts of interest. Councillor Joe Natoli left the chambers during Thursday's Sunshine Coast Council meeting after his colleagues voted that he had a declared conflict of interest involving discussions on a sponsorship deal with Sunshine Coast Lightning. His wife, Rosanna Natoli, is a journalism and media lecturer at the university, which also is a part-owner of the netball team. The connection was rais...

AFP 23 APRIL 2021 Global warming thresholds that could tip massive ice sheets into irreversible melting or see the Amazon rainforest shrivel into savannah have "grace periods", giving humanity more time to draw down planet-warming carbon emissions, researchers have calculated.   More than a dozen tipping points triggered mainly by rising temperatures could unleash catastrophic changes in Earth's climate system. As the Paris Agreement goal of a 1.5 degree Celsius cap above pre-industrial levels slips out of reach, this is potentially very good news - although no reason to relax - scientists...

Fri, 23 Apr 2021 18:11 UTC © Erik Mclean from Pexels According to the latest research, global warming points of no return for invaluable environmental assets like glaciers and rainforests may have "grace periods" during which humanity can prevent irrevocable loss. The majority of the climate change debate has focused on the preventative measure of capping temperature rises to below two degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average. Now, however, the latest research led by Paul Ritchie and Peter Cox from the School of Engineering, Mathematics and Physical Sciences at Exeter University has ...