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There is renewed pressure this week on the Reserve Bank to cut interest rates, as the Australian rises on the back of global currency wars.

Published on: ExecutiveCareer

Humans spend much less time chewing than our primate cousins, and it may have actually helped us evolve.

Published on: GreenCareer

The Local Government Association of Queensland wants an anti-mud-slinging cop.

Published on: GovernmentCareer - Local

A West Australian mayor wants trouble-making kids to be caned, and is looking to the Barnett Government for support.

Published on: EducationCareer

An alleged gaffe has seen the Immigration Department rush to avoid accusations of Nazi denial.

Published on: GovernmentCareer - Federal

The latest national academic performance figures have revealed “signs of improvement across the country”.

Published on: EducationCareer

A simple street crossing will soon become an apt tribute to one of the founding mothers of Melbourne.

Published on: EducationCareer

A new Australian study says particularly social bugs like ants and bees may have something to teach us about building resilient infrastructure.

Published on: TradesCareer

A new discovery could see more tourists visiting one of Australia’s already best-known sites.

Published on: GreenCareer

Western Australian Water Minister Mia Davies says more supplies and uses of water are needed.

Published on: TradesCareer

Next year, Victoria’s desalination plant will be turned on for the first time.

Published on: WaterCareer

Top scientists warn that the CSIRO’s “trashed” reputation will see the next generation of experts seek work somewhere else.

Published on: GreenCareer

Tech giant Google has reported on a two-year effort to define the perfect work team.

Published on: ExecutiveCareer

Reports say that a $99 million Sydney water recycler is sitting idle, three years after it was completed.

Published on: WaterCareer

Rural Australian towns may soon have a new option for much-needed wastewater treatment.

Published on: WaterCareer

There is more criticism this week of the recently-negotiated TPPA and its impact on public health schemes.

Published on: EducationCareer

New modelling suggests that wild climate variability of the future will make the wettest land wetter, and soak dry land too.

Published on: GreenCareer

Environmental experts want new conservation efforts to focus on some of Nature’s "ugliest" creations.

Published on: GreenCareer

Australian tree experts have helped foil a horticultural heist.

Published on: GreenCareer

BHP’s Samarco joint venture has reached a settlement with the Brazilian government that will see it pay a minimum of $US1.7 billion over six years for a deadly tailings spill.

Published on: GreenCareer

Fortescue Metals Group (FMG) is joining with Brazilian firm Vale to pursue iron ore joint ventures.

Published on: LogisticsCareer

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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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