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A new study claims that shared intentions and collaboration among humans evolved as a survival mechanism.

Published on: ResearchCareer

The National Heavy Vehicle Regulator (NHVR) wants to clarify the requirements for the National Heavy Vehicle Accreditation Scheme (NHVAS) auditor training and qualifications.

Published on: LogisticsCareer

The Transport Workers Union (TWU) has added its perspective to the Road Safety Remuneration Tribunal’s (RSRT) packed agenda.

Published on: LogisticsCareer

BHP Billiton Iron Ore has signed a significant native title agreement with traditional owners of land in the Pilbara.

Published on: GreenCareer

Canberra engineering firm Seeing Machines is looking to introduce hands-free cruise control for regular cars, but it has some innovations in store for mining truck drivers as well.

Published on: ICTCareer

South Australia’s unions want Return to Work changes extended to all industries, not just police.

Published on: GovernmentCareer - State

Contrary to media reports last week, WA Treasurer Mike Nahan says stage 2 of the $1.6 billion Perth Freight Link project has not been put on the shelf.

Published on: EngineeringCareer

The Federal Government has put up $2 million to fund trials using the drug ketamine to treat depression.

Published on: HealthCareer

One of Australia’s leading research institutions has been awarded for its exemplary level of workplace gender equality.

Published on: EducationCareer

The tailings dam at a BHP joint venture iron ore mine in Brazil has burst, killing several people.

Published on: GreenCareer

Victoria’s Essendon football club has been charged by WorkSafe Victoria for breaching two counts of the Occupational Health and Safety Act after a long investigation into doping allegations.

Published on: OHSCareer

Australia’s largest planned coal mine is going back to court again, this time to face what the Australian Conservation Foundation (ACF) calls an “historic, landmark case”.

Published on: GreenCareer

The first bits of equipment for Victoria’s prototype wave power unit are in place.

Published on: GreenCareer

Unions say forced redundancies at Ausgrid and Essential Energy have been put aside by a Fair Work Commission ruling.

Published on: GovernmentCareer - Local

EnergyAustralia says it is closing its call centre in Melbourne’s north-east, putting up to 300 jobs on the line.

Published on: EnergyCareer

The Federal Health Minister says consumers are not getting value for money from their health insurance policies, and conditions should be changed.

Published on: ExecutiveCareer

A renowned cancer expert says we need a different approach to finding treatments for rare cancers.

Published on: HealthCareer

Nearly 30 years after the introduction of Prozac, people diagnosed with depression are still questioning the legitimacy of antidepressants.

Published on: HealthCareer

New South Wales paramedics are facing the State Government at the Industrial Relations Commission (IRC) amid a dispute about death and disability payouts.

Published on: HealthCareer

Exploring the bounds of Commodore 64 personal computers back in the nineteen-eighties created some of Australia’s most successful game designers, and researchers now want to turn their academic lens to the phenomenon.

Published on: EngineeringCareer

Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk has released a consultation paper on a ‘biofutures’ industry in Queensland.

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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