Industry News

The WA port city of Bunbury will play host to the trial of an exciting new power source.

Extensive media reports this week say the CFMEU is banking on Bill Shorten to win the next election, amid fears the LNP would try to shut the union down if re-elected.

Research from the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) has found a widespread culture of bullying and sexual harassment among surgeons.

New stats suggest that over a quarter of hospitalisations of older Australians could be caused by poor medication-related primary care before admission – costing the Australian health system $300 million a year.

New findings are leading experts to look at cancer on a much longer timescale.

A former financial services provider has been pleaded guilty for his role in a multi-million dollar home-loan fraud conspiracy.

Nigel Scullion says the China-Australia Free Trade Agreement will have a positive effect on Indigenous communities.

Assistant Treasurer Josh Frydenberg has suggested that businesses be “levied” to pay for the Australian Securities and Investment Commission, but one local expert says it would be against the public interest.

With the year drawing to a close and a season of unfettered indulgence approaching, a new government-funded healthy lifestyle program being rolled out in response to rising rates of childhood obesity.

NASA's New Horizons probe has sent back a treasure trove of new information on Pluto – beaming its high-definition images 5 billion kilometres across the solar system.

The NSW Government is moving to extend mayors’ terms to two year, to end the revolving door of council leaders in the state.

The Hobart City Council will look at the feasibility of amalgamating with neighbouring municipalities.

Workers from Human Services, the Tax Office, Border Force and Employment departments plan to walk off the job on September 15, saying they have been “low-balled” by new enterprise agreements.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott has announced Australia will take on 12,000 refugees, as millions flee conflict in Syria.

The WA Government says it is close to finalising plans to move 800 public servants from the Perth CBD to Joondalup.

South Australian ambulance officers have been told that the State Government plans to cut almost $8 million from the service, prompting them to threaten industrial action.

The royal commission into nuclear fuel cycles has opened in Adelaide, and its first witness has warned that Australia needs to catch up with other countries in combating greenhouse gas.

A top level expert in electronic engineering has warned that the Coalition’s National Broadband Network is a bad deal for Australia.

The chairman of the Berriquin Irrigators group has slammed what he calls ludicrous anomalies in the Murray-Darling Basin Plan.

Broken Hill Base Hospital is planning to build its own desalination plant to combat the effects of a worsening water shortage in far west New South Wales.