Industry News

The fine on Glencore’s Bulga coal mine for breaching work safety conditions has been doubled.

There has been progress and a setback in the effort to patch up Tasmania’s power supplies.

The Victorian town of Anglesea is being consulted about future uses for the site of Alcoa’s coal-fired power station and mine.

Queensland researchers have taken another small step on the path to quantum computing.

Australian engineers have unveiled exciting new nano-tech “smart packages”, which could change the way drugs are delivered.

Anxiety disorders are some of the most common of all brain issues, and a new study on fruit flies may have shed some light on anxiety’s most basic mechanisms.

The Queensland CFMEU says two more workers have black lung, marking the eighth confirmed case of coal miners’ pneumoconiosis since December last year.

The main doctors’ lobby is excited by a possible $7 billion emergency hospitals funding deal between the Federal and state governments.

Two experts have debated whether doctors should boycott working in Australia’s immigration detention centres.

Victorian paramedics will receive pay rises in line with the increasingly demanding nature of their job.

The WA Local Government Association (WALGA) says new laws requiring councillors to declare ‘gifts’ are too broad.

Payday lender Nimble Australia has been order to pay back $1.5 million to over 7,000 customers after not meeting its lending obligations.

Australian Careers Network (ACN) has slid into voluntary administration, leaving its 15,000 students with no classes.

A new report says not having money for public transport should not keep kids from going to school.

Energy giant Woodside has shelved its gigantic Browse floating LNG project off Western Australia, and the Federal Government feels aggrieved.

The latest corporate tax transparency figures show almost a third of companies earning over $200 million paid no tax.

Tasmania’s hydro-electric generators could be severely damaged by low water levels and the state should prepare for blackouts, one union says.

South Australian irrigators could soon see reduced allocations for the first time since 2011, while the State Government looks at increasing Adelaide's desalination operations.

A stunning piece of research has seen the entire HIV-1 genome cut out of a patient’s infected immune cells.

The National Heath and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has put up another $3.3 million for studies on illness and wind turbines.