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The roll-out of NBN’s rural high speed satellite services will begin on 1 October 2015, the federal government says.

The first report from a Senate inquiry into multinational tax avoidance is expected to be tabled today, while investigators say companies are funnelling more than AU$30 billion to Singapore every year to avoid tax.

Astrophysicist Professor Geraint Lewis says light speed space travel between galaxies may actually be possible.

An international team of scientists is reviving an endangered species by awakening sperm from specimens that died decades ago.

Economists say the sugar hit of mining boom masked a deterioration in Australian wage growth.

A new survey suggests financial planners at non-aligned planning practices earn more than their aligned peers.

The high rate of Tasmanian students graduating without being able to read, write or do sums is a “big problem”, one minister says.

All of South Australia's government schools are getting involved in a program to give online reading comprehension and mathematics tests will to students in years three to 10.

The WA State School Teachers' Union has launched a new campaign to call on the WA Government to reinstate TAFE funding.

Live music poured $15.7 billion into the Australian economy last year, while creating 65,000 full and part-time jobs.

A new study has shown that the human eyeball does a lot of visual processing before its signals even reach the brain.

Community volunteers are being sought to join Regional Development Australia (RDA) Boards in South Australia.

The Baird government is looking to accelerate council amalgamations, and could force them through before the September 2016 council elections.

Australian scientists have reported back from the latest trial of the joint Australia-US Hypersonic International Flight Research Experimentation (HIFiRE) Program.

Some serious spring cleaning is going on at the department formerly in charge of military procurement.

Authorities are still working out how to merge CSIRO and NICTA, leaving 200 employees with no certain future in the meantime.

The man in charge of the royal commission into union corruption is being promoted as the guest speaker at a Liberal Party fundraiser.

The WA Legislative Council says it had no choice but to sack a top-level officer because he had “lost the trust” of his colleagues, after criminal charges were raised against him.

WikiLeaks has warned Federal Government whistleblowers to watch out, following the prosecution of a junior public servant alleged to have posted secret information online.

HR departments do not need to measure employee engagement by asking whether employees are forming ‘best friendships’ at work, one expert says.