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The Australian Trucking Association wants capital gains tax (CGT) removed from transfers within family businesses.

Published on: LogisticsCareer

Dust contaminated with metals at levels above state and international benchmarks is falling onto playgrounds in Queensland, and a new study has traced it to the city’s port.

Published on: GreenCareer

Nanoengineers have developed an ink that can make a sensor just by drawing it on.

Published on: EngineeringCareer

A tax on sugar-sweetened drinks would be an effective way to improve the health of heavy consumers, new research shows.

Published on: FinanceCareer

Research shows Australian health web sites are too difficult for the average person to read.

Published on: HealthCareer

The media expects the Federal Government will soon dump its GP co-payment plan.

Published on: HealthCareer

One Australian billionaire thinks the next big payday will come from the oil and gas sector.

Published on: ExecutiveCareer

Victorian electricity distributor United has announced a move it says will cut the average annual household by $55 a year for its clients.

Published on: EnergyCareer

The renewable energy industry will not accept the Federal Government's latest renewable energy target (RET).

Published on: GreenCareer

Queensland Senators are fighting to let the public know about some seemingly dodgy CSG approvals.

Published on: GreenCareer

Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt is becoming suspicious about the popularity of rooftop solar.

Published on: TradesCareer

Federal Environment Minister Greg Hunt has “stopped the clock” on a big open-cut coal project in NSW.

Published on: GreenCareer

A new online tool is aimed at helping women in unhealthy or unsafe relationships to free themselves.

Published on: HealthCareer

A more attractive real estate agent makes a property seem more attractive to buyers, research shows.

Published on: TradesCareer

A building plugged as Australia’s first carbon positive prefab home has been on display in Melbourne.

Published on: TradesCareer

One branch of the NSW Electrical Trades Union (ETU) launched its fight against the NSW Government's further privatisation of the electricity network.

Published on: TradesCareer

Trade Minister Andrew Robb has hinted that the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement will be signed soon.

Published on: GreenCareer

Disney is beginning to outsource its storywriting to computers.

Published on: EngineeringCareer

The current stream of bad press about financial advice can be wiped away with some cultural change, Financial Advisers (AFA) national president Deborah Kent says.

Published on: FinanceCareer

There has been more criticism this week of a 6-week fast-track program designed to get more professionals into teaching.

Published on: EducationCareer

The Victorian government has scrapped the rating scale for teacher performance reviews.

Published on: EducationCareer

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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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