Townsville

Downtown tax office shut down and shuttered up ahead of the category two tropical cyclone making land.

Assistant public service minister Patrick Gorman encourages people to stop by the APS Academy to learn more about becoming a public servant.

The federal government wants to tap into the local talent of the Hunter region, with the opening of a Newcastle-based APS academy.

The army’s Apaches are to be relocated to Townsville, as Defence consolidates its rotary wing workshops. Darwin keeps the choppers until 2028.

The federal government has committed to upgrading air force bases and barracks across Queensland, the Northern Territory and Western Australia.

State, territory and federal representatives of the Ministerial Council on Trade and Investment have held their first meeting.

Speculation that Richard Marles could prune the Army’s Land 400 Phase 3 project — ‘Infantry Fighting Vehicles’ — has worried Queensland.

LNP pitches to people living on the nationwide ‘urban fringes of major cities’ more than $28 million to address mobile phone blackspots.