The Latest Breaking News from Opal

Within ten years, Australia could be in possession of three American-made Virginia-class nuclear submarines under the AUKUS agreement with the United States and United Kingdom. The following decade, we plan to build five next-generation nuclear submarines.

The latest data shows an average of two days a week of work from home, fewer cars on the road and less-crowded trains

Workers at the Maryvale Mill thought they were set for life when they walked through the gates for the first time, but at least 150 are now facing redundancies.

Australian unions have leapt to the defence of workers facing the axe over the closure of Australia's last white paper manufacturing plant.

Dwindling timber supplies have been blamed for Australia's last white paper manufacturer shutting its eastern Victorian plant.

Melburnians know Myki, Sydneysiders know Opal. These two electronic ticketing systems for public transport may be streets ahead of what they replaced, but are now decidedly old-fashioned compared with systems elsewhere in the world.

Australia's sole office paper manufacturing could cease operations if its foreign owners decide to permanently shut its Latrobe Valley white paper mill line. Tomorrow's decision could affect up to 200 workers and comes after a halt in operations in native timber logging in Victoria.

Opal Australian Paper's Maryvale mill, in Victoria, has halted white paper production indefinitely, as the office supplies industry predicts paper prices will soar across the country.

Paper companies are scrambling to source foreign white paper after a lack of domestic timber supply dented production at Australia's only white paper mill.

Perhaps Transport NSW needs to install infrared counters on the doors of trains and buses.

Yes, we all do silly things when we are young, but in this case I think it is important to consider the context.