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Staff at NSW’s Essential Energy will vote on industrial action this week, with reports up to 800 jobs will go in the next two years.

Published on: TradesCareer

One of Australia’s largest rooftop solar installations has hit a new milestone – generating a whopping 312 kilowatts of power.

Published on: GreenCareer

Rising utility prices are a source of concern and outrage for Australian consumers, leading experts to look at ways to keep the system honest.

Published on: TradesCareer

West Australian Health Minister Kim Hames has responded to public pressure, and says the maternity unit at Perth’s Bentley Hospital will stay open.

Published on: HealthCareer

New research backs up the idea that eating peanut products as a baby can help avoid the risk of allergy.

Published on: GreenCareer

ANU research says one in three families will be worse off under the Federal Government's planned changes to child care.

Published on: EducationCareer

Fair Work Commission (FWC) vice-president Michael Lawler has resigned, ending a long-running legal dispute and leaving a big bill for time on leave.

Published on: TradesCareer

Over three years after their pay agreement expired, vocational education (VE) staff at RMIT University still do not have a new one.

Published on: EducationCareer

The New South Wales Teachers Federation says the State Government is watering down the qualifications required to be a school counsellor.

Published on: EducationCareer

A teenager is suing the Victorian Education Department after alleged homophobic bullying left him suicidal.

Published on: EducationCareer

The WA Education Minister wants parents to teach their children more before they start school.

Published on: EducationCareer

With local government elections happening across Queensland this month, the Local Government Association of Queensland (LGAQ) says it is ready for an influx of new councillors and mayors.

Published on: GovernmentCareer - Local

The WA Local Government Association (WALGA) has voted to retain its leadership team at a meeting of the organisation’s State Council this week.

Published on: GovernmentCareer - Local

Staff in Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s own department have emphatically rejected the latest enterprise agreement.

Published on: ExecutiveCareer

Leaked reports suggest the company building the National Broadband Network has investigated a new kind of fibre-to-the-premises technology.

Published on: TradesCareer

Union workers across areas including Medicare, Centrelink, Child Support, the Tax Office, the Bureau of Meteorology, the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and the Bureau of Statistics are going on strike again.

Published on: ExecutiveCareer

The NT education union has grilled the Government on where $272 million of funding is being spent.

Published on: EducationCareer

Progress has been slow for a recall of dodgy electrical cabling installed in thousands of Australian homes.

Published on: TradesCareer

Tasmania’s public sector union says it would accept a proposed pay rise for politicians, if they support pay rises for government workers.

Published on: GovernmentCareer - State

An outback WA council says if residents cannot control their rubbish, they will not get any benches to sit on.

Published on: GreenCareer

Reports say Brisbane City Council (BCC) signed a multi-million-dollar contract to sell city parkland to major donor to the Liberal National Party.

Published on: TradesCareer

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For the last few weeks we have been bogged down in the very Earthly matters of royalty, budgets, politics, humanity and celebrity - all good prompts to look away, up into the infinite. 

Health authorities, politicians and scientists have been slowly introducing the world to the concept of ‘One Health’ - an all-inclusive approach to health that extends from the human body right through the global environment. 

This year’s Nobel Prizes honour discoveries that unwind our notion of truth, our understanding of ourselves and the human story, the complexities of cells and the very basics of the universe. 

XENOTRANSPLANTATION - sounds like something that would happen to an ill-fated crew member in Star Trek, but it is also a technical term for using non-human parts to treat or enhance our own bodies. 

Even though many of us have been forced indoors, the COVID-19 crisis is eroding our privacy.

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