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While tech experts around the world seek the next level of artificial intelligence, an Australian team is hunting something harder to define – artificial consciousness.

The WA Government says a lack of resources means that most of its upcoming intake of Syrian refugees will be resettled in Perth.

The NSW Local Government Minister could dust off a one-size-fits-all plan for statutory “rural councils”.

A NSW MP has come up with a plan to avoid the state’s controversial Fit for the Future reforms, and it has already been labelled “illogical”, “crazy”, and ridiculous.

More voices have been added to calls for the Tasmanian Government to deal with a growing pile of discarded car tyres.

Insiders say the Murray Darling Basin Authority will offer employees a 6 per cent pay increase over three years.

The decision to extend a big WA mining camp has caused a stoush between the state’s Liberals and Nationals.

The Climate Institute has slammed the adequacy of Australia’s carbon emission reduction measures, saying they would not meet the smallest target set at the upcoming Paris climate talks.

Australian researchers have exposed a potential dark side to sports supporters’ apparel.

Australia’s attempt to join the United Nations Human Rights Council has prompted over 100 responses from member nations, some of which unleashed on its rough treatment of refugees.

Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species has been voted the most influential academic book of all time.

Farmers that rely on Queensland's Flinders River say some regions are missing out on their fair share of water.

The Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) says the current El Nino weather system should break down early next year, leading to some substantial rainfall.

A ballot for industrial action by members of the CFMEU at NSW utility Essential Water has been approved.

Labor says Australia should lead world efforts to resettle climate change migrants forced from their homes in the Pacific.

Victorian Labor MP Cesar Melhem says he will stay in State Parliament and fight allegations of corruption from his days as a union boss.

New research has shown the best and worst excuses for missing work.

Extremely positive early results are leading researchers to intentionally infect coeliacs with worms.

Dozens more people were potentially exposed to asbestos during work on a Water Corporation project in WA, the State Government has said.

Insiders claim some are taking water from Tasmanian river systems that they have not paid for, as local farmers face an impending drought.