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The price of iron ore is at a six year low, and still sliding.

Published on: ExecutiveCareer

New statistics show that the ageing healthcare workforce is feeling the strain in its very bones.

Published on: HealthCareer

A Victorian fire-fighter training facility has been shut down and two WorkSafe executives have lost their jobs following the discovery of chemicals in the water supply.

Published on: WaterCareer

Authorities are keeping up the fight against risks in the agriculture industry.

Published on: OHSCareer

Experts are investigating whether chemical exposure in the workplace can affect hearing.

Published on: GreenCareer

Swiss engineers have reported on a new roly-poly robot, powered by a fire in its belly.

Published on: EngineeringCareer

A senior surgeon has shed an ugly light on gender equality in the medical profession.

Published on: ExecutiveCareer

South Australian researchers are working on nanoscale ‘guided missiles’ to seek and destroy cancer cells.

Published on: EngineeringCareer

Every week in Australia, three men will be diagnosed with male breast cancer.

Published on: HealthCareer

Researchers are working on a new surgical instrument to enable bone graft delivery during minimally invasive spinal fusion procedures.

Published on: HealthCareer

Apple, Google and Microsoft are rushing to patch a serious mobile security flaw.

Published on: ICTCareer

Australian medical engineers say they are on the verge of a breakthrough, after the transplant of a fully bionic heart.

Published on: EngineeringCareer

Former NSW deputy premier Andrew Stoner is suing broadcaster Alan Jones and a Greens MP for defamation over coal seam gas claims.

Published on: ResourcesCareer

Treasurer Joe Hockey and Finance Minister Matthias Cormann are changing the rules for the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC).

Published on: GreenCareer

Queensland’s new Labor Government is looking to scrap laws that would make it hard for motorcycle club members to work on construction sites.

Published on: TradesCareer

The WA Government has put up a range of scholarships aimed at forging a new generation of tradie ladies.

Published on: TradesCareer

The first round of open tenders for the Brisbane-to-Melbourne Inland Rail project will be advertised this week.

Published on: TradesCareer

The Minister for Regional Development has rubbished claims about  cuts to the Financial Assistance Grant programme.

Published on: TradesCareer

The back-and-forth continues between the Environment Minister and the clean energy sector over the future of the Renewable Energy Target (RET).

Published on: GreenCareer

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has put up $5.5 million to support an off-grid hybrid power project off the coast of Tasmania.

Published on: GreenCareer

A major superannuation group says letting Australians make more choices for their retirement savings could stop investments in large infrastructure projects.

Published on: TradesCareer

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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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