Industry News

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.

The Australian women’s soccer team - the Matildas - have withdrawn from a Sydney training camp amid a breakdown in talks over the pay dispute with the FFA.

While it might make for awkward lunchroom conversation, experts say the workplace is a logical place to open up about suicide.

The University of South Australia has signed a deal with a Chinese pharmaceutical firm for new cancer research.

Australian researchers have gathered a set of advanced devices that will allow them to peer into the tiniest corners of the universe.

A Queensland-based statistics researcher is working to counter violent extremism by examining the way people talk about themselves and their beliefs.

The world’s forests have shrunk by three per cent since 1990 - an area equivalent to the size of South Africa – new studies show.

Bernie Fraser has resigned as chairman of the Climate Change Authority (CCA).

Archaeologists may have spotted the buried remains of a giant prehistoric monument close to Britain's famous Stonehenge.

The nations of the Pacific islands are again raising their voices to prevent the destructive effects of climate change.

New research has found that open-cut mines can affect groundwater and plants several kilometres away.

Researchers have made a surprising find about the climate change resilience of sharks.

A man who is paralysed from the waist down has taken his first step in four years – with the help of a high-tech exoskeleton.

Researchers at Perth’s Centre for Exploration Targeting (CET) say sulphur could help find new mining deposits.

An Australian ship operator says he was told by Federal Government officials to sack his crew and replace them with foreign workers.