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The Fair Work Commission will be forced to make a ruling on its own conduct, a new twist in the industrial action from the federal public service.

Published on: ExecutiveCareer

Now that the Federal Government has successfully slashed the Renewable Energy Target, progressive State Governments could fill the void.

Published on: GreenCareer

The Government of South Australia has made a bold move toward more open and transparent services, with a new website detailing what it offers and how it performs.

Published on: ICTCareer

A WA MP says some government departments should move to regional areas.

Published on: GovernmentCareer - State

For a second time, attorneys-general from across the country have petitioned the Federal Government over funding cuts to legal aid and community legal services.

Published on: GovernmentCareer - Local

Rural women say a special scheme should be set up to stop people around the country suffering in silence at the hands of abusive partners.

Published on: GovernmentCareer - Local

An international team featuring Australian researchers has released a study looking at how quantum matter changes when it makes a ‘quantum phase transition’.

Published on: EngineeringCareer

An Australian study says early childhood is a key time to build resilience against post-traumatic stress.

Published on: HealthCareer

A new study has found the use of lead solder in water supply pipelines has resulted in environmental contamination across a 70km stretch of land in central New South Wales.

Published on: WaterCareer

Finance firms have dominated a new list of Australia’s top companies for supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) people at work.

Published on: ExecutiveCareer

A Senate inquiry has been told around 1,000 wind turbines will need to be built to meet the new Renewable Energy Target figure of 33,000 gigawatt hours.

Published on: TradesCareer

The world’s largest private coal company has been accused of promoting itself in Ebola-ravaged Africa, claiming that fossil fuel is a solution to global poverty.

Published on: GreenCareer

The Federal Government has acknowledged that Co-operative Research Centres earn more than they cost, but will cut funding to them anyway.

Published on: GreenCareer

A rural Victorian community says the Government is not responding fast enough to concerns about arsenic in the water supply.

Published on: WaterCareer

The Federal Government will spend $6 million to build a pipeline in New South Wales, from the newly expanded Yass Dam to Murrumbateman.

Published on: WaterCareer

Victoria's North Central Catchment Management Authority's (CMA) has a new chief executive.

Published on: WaterCareer

A letter from a farmer to the NSW Department of Primary Industries shows the incredible strain imposed on people who live on the land.

Published on: GreenCareer

A major chicken company has been fined $80,000 for spilling 1,700 litres of blood into a creek near Newcastle.

Published on: GreenCareer

Coal seam gas company AGL can fire up its Gloucester operations once more, after the EPA cleared away a contamination scare.

Published on: GreenCareer

A new, ecologically-minded trend is emerging on the internet, as activists use digital means to shame wealthy water-wasters.

Published on: GreenCareer

Australian research engineers are working on a system that could vastly improve the efficiency of electric motors.

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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