On Wednesday 27th July South Australia’s state government and the City of Adelaide jointly announced funding of $12 million over the next two years to complete the controversial From Street Bikeway.

On Friday 29th July the Premier of Western Australian Colin Barnett and Transport Minister Dean Nalder launched their long term vision for cycling.

A new bicycle brand is launching in Australia. “We are a small British company dedicated to making cycling fun for children,” explained Frog Bikes’ Australian Sales Manager Hannah Bodilly.

After years of having their dealer launches in the cold confines of their home base in Melbourne, Giant Australia CEO Darren Rutherford and his team saw the light and headed north this year.

Green Square is a major new urban renewal project currently under construction in inner city Sydney.

In a first for the cycling community 13 key cycling organisations from across Australia have combined forces to release a two page pictographic document entitled ‘Australian Bicycle Organisations 2016 Election Position’.

A few recent news stories from across the globe would tend to suggest that cycling is set to become more popular in even some of the toughest markets.

You may remember reading that since the NSW government recently introduced minimum safe passing laws, the NSW Police have only fined four motorists for not complying.

As our recent Australian Bicycle Summit coverage outlined, the Australian bicycle industry has gone to all political parties that are contesting the current federal election and to the broader media presenting a unified front.

The amount is tiny by federal standards, but for the first time in Australia’s history one of the two major political parties has made an election commitment for federal funding of cycling.

The size of cycle fines is not the only thing to have surged in NSW in the past two months.

Motorists who send text messages on their phones whilst they are driving are killing and injuring cyclists around the world, including in Australia where the cyclists’ death toll rose slightly in 2013 and 2014, partly as a result of this.

After a successful two year trial period, the one metre minimum passing laws that have been campaigned for by the Amy Gillett Foundation have become permanent.

Bike Share is growing at a phenomenal rate worldwide from zero cities to approaching 1,000 cities in less than two decades.

Norway has just announced a new tool in its fight against transit emissions: a new network of bike highways.