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Backers are gathering for a takeover battle of one of Australia’s biggest transport and logistics firms, Asciano.

Published on: TradesCareer

ASIC has issued an update on its work to cut red tape and reduce compliance costs.

Published on: FinanceCareer

Treasury secretary John Fraser has warned that Australia’s prized AAA credit rating could slip.

Published on: ExecutiveCareer

The earliest ever examples of mathematical and geometric astronomy have been identified on ancient Babylonian stones.

Published on: EducationCareer

A new tech tool allows teachers to assess and provide helpful feedback in real time as students deliver oral presentations.

Published on: EducationCareer

Early childhood educators should be friendly with their students, but should they ‘love’ them?

Published on: EducationCareer

Researchers have measured the effect of letting kids’ vision problems go untreated.

Published on: EducationCareer

Sydney’s Auburn City Council has decided how to its ultimatum.

Published on: GovernmentCareer - Local

Victorian residents’ groups want a two-term cap for mayoral terms.

Published on: GovernmentCareer - Local

Australia’s environmental performance is down this week, but it looks like corruption is rising.

Published on: GreenCareer

The Local Government Association of the Northern Territory‘s president is outraged that NT has been left out of federal funding.

Published on: WaterCareer

Some remote Queensland councils are expecting a communications revolution.

Published on: ICTCareer

The Australian Public Service Commission says public sector bosses need “political nous” to get to the top.

Published on: ExecutiveCareer

Figures are out for Centrelink’s call centre, and there is very little to be excited about.

Published on: ICTCareer

Matthew James from the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet has been honoured with a Public Service Medal (PSM).

Published on: EducationCareer

The response to community fears over shark attacks in NSW has been delayed.

Published on: GreenCareer

Victoria’s public transport authorities have been accused of allowing trains to run over capacity, and fudging the numbers to cover it up.

Published on: ExecutiveCareer

The Ipswich City Council and Mayor Paul Pisasale are facing an onslaught of questions after claims of nepotism.

Published on: GovernmentCareer - Local

A new report says renewable energy could be the key to getting much-needed water supplies to farmers.

Published on: GreenCareer

An Austrian designer has come up with a bike-mounted water bottle that fills itself with water from the air.

Published on: GreenCareer

The chance of industrial action against the water provider in far west New South Wales is rising.

Published on: WaterCareer

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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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