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With consumer confidence in financial advice in a pretty rough state, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) says its new Office of the Whistleblower will allow insiders to fight back.

Published on: ExecutiveCareer

New research suggests an old product could give the human brain some new functions.

Published on: EducationCareer

ANZ has posted massive profit figures, just a day after word that NAB may have to lose weight to stay healthy.

Published on: ExecutiveCareer

Cuts to the office in charge of developing northern Australia mean remote communities will continue missing out, some say.

Published on: TradesCareer

The Australian Local Government Association has lashed out again proposed changes to natural disaster funding arrangements.

Published on: GovernmentCareer - Local

Queensland councils have put their foot down on the issue of State support for resource impacted regions.

Published on: GovernmentCareer - Local

The West Australian Local Government Association says forced mergers will cost councils from $4.1 to $7.2 million per amalgamation, and the State should step in to help.

Published on: GovernmentCareer - Local

A new review panel will look at the ways that the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) regulates medicines and medical devices.

Published on: HealthCareer

The parliamentary secretary to the Treasurer has warned federal public servants that under-performing agencies could be cut.

Published on: ExecutiveCareer

The South Australian Government has tightened the rules for MP’s, lobbies and political donations.

Published on: GovernmentCareer - State

West Australian mental health authorities say politicians should not decide the freedom of mentally impaired people.

Published on: HealthCareer

The Tasmanian Government has outlined the size of its public sector cuts, and expressed “regret” that so many will be sacked.

Published on: EducationCareer

Queensland Premier Campbell Newman has been hampered in his mission to place people in top-level anti-corruption roles.

Published on: ExecutiveCareer

New Zealand scientists have developed a portable, rapid, DNA testing device for Ebola.

Published on: GreenCareer

One of our ancient ancestors has turned ten years old, but a modern expert says we are just starting to find out who it was.

Published on: GreenCareer

A high-tech and visually-stunning software suite will bring a better look at data.

Published on: WaterCareer

The Amazon Rainforest – known as the ‘Lungs of the Earth’ – is running out of breath.

Published on: GreenCareer

Government red tape is a villain blamed for burdening business and hampering profits, but one expert says many of these issues actually come from inside a company.

Published on: ExecutiveCareer

A recent study has shown that men get more prize money than women in 30 per cent of sports.

Published on: ExecutiveCareer

A new restriction has been imposed on Murray-Darling basin water license-holders.

Published on: WaterCareer

Victoria is the latest state to sign on the Federal Government’s “One-Stop Shop” approach to environmental approvals.

Published on: GreenCareer

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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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