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A new survey suggests chronic job insecurity has led to a mental health crisis and high rates of suicide among Australian commercial fishers.

Published on: WaterCareer

The Federal Government is continuing its push to change environmental approval laws so that activists and environmentalists cannot hinder mining projects.

Published on: GreenCareer

Australian researchers have set a new record for generating hydrogen fuel with solar power.

Published on: GreenCareer

BHP is pushing ahead despite a depressed iron ore market, drumming-up funds for a new open pit near Newman in WA.

Published on: GreenCareer

The next round of Safe Work SA WHS Research Strategy will pay out $650,000 in research grants, with applications open now.

Published on: TradesCareer

Queensland-based employees of the rail firm Aurizon say they have been bullied and gagged from talking to the media.

Published on: LogisticsCareer

The Australian Livestock and Rural Transporters’ Association has released the final version of its national ‘Guide for Safe Design of Livestock Loading Ramps and Forcing Yards’.

Published on: LogisticsCareer

Fire trucks in New South Wales are being outfitted with sirens that can be felt as well as heard.

Published on: LogisticsCareer

The Federal Government will keep fighting to bring back the workplace cop - the Australian Building and Construction Commission (ABCC) - after failing to reintroduce it this week.

Published on: TradesCareer

Tasmanian electric car enthusiasts want a public network of chargers for the high-tech vehicles.

Published on: LogisticsCareer

A US company has been slugged with a $6 million workplace safety settlement, after a gruesome workplace death in 2012.

Published on: OHSCareer

A simple device could bring robots and artificial intelligence closer to natural human abilities.

Published on: EngineeringCareer

The Australian Taxation Office is looking at the funding of the massive Gorgon natural gas project, amid claims that it will make billions of dollars tax-free.

Published on: TradesCareer

The Federal Government wants to change environmental laws so that a skink and a snake cannot hold up a massive coal mine.

Published on: GreenCareer

Australia’s main financial regulator says it will turn its focus to ‘phoenix activities’ in the construction sector.

Published on: TradesCareer

A new study says proper medication reviews performed by pharmacists and general practitioners can be a big help in improving the use of medicines.

Published on: HealthCareer

Local researchers are getting close to a new weight loss pill.

Published on: HealthCareer

The Victorian Government is introducing new 'no jab, no play' laws, banning unvaccinated kids from child care and kindergarten.

Published on: EducationCareer

Queensland researchers are about to start a set of clinical trials that could be a huge help for victims of stroke and brain injury.

Published on: HealthCareer

The Grattan Institute says far too many patients in Australian hospitals get a treatment they should not receive, even against evidence that the treatment is unnecessary or does not work.

Published on: HealthCareer

Australian researchers have demonstrated a new diamond laser that is 20 times more powerful than previous diamond lasers.

Published on: EngineeringCareer

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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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