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Strong questions are being asked just days after the Government announced it would try to facilitate more Australian health workers helping the fight against Ebola in West Africa.

Published on: ExecutiveCareer

The ABC has axed Australia’s only nightly satirical news program, The Roast, after three years on air.

Published on: ICTCareer

A big civil service conference has heard that public Servants “don't have to do everything ordered by politicians”.

Published on: GovernmentCareer - Federal

The Federal Government has poured almost $100 million into Australian research, giving $30 million for university infrastructure and $70 million for 200 new research projects.

Published on: GreenCareer

South Australia’s Commissioner for Public Sector Employment has rejected claims that a recent wage offer removed tenure for public servants.

Published on: GovernmentCareer - State

Victorian Government departments will soon fall under new Freedom of Information standards.

Published on: GovernmentCareer - State

Queensland’s Department of Science, Information Technology, Innovation and the Arts (DSITIA) has received top marks on a project that gives young PhD students a taste of life as a researcher.

Published on: EducationCareer

The Victorian Local Governance Association has lodged its submission to the Victorian Local Government Electoral Review, seeking word on the state of some much-needed reforms.

Published on: ExecutiveCareer

Local Government NSW (LGNSW) is helping the state’s councils with their asbestos issues, as Federal assistance stops at the border.

Published on: TradesCareer

WA councils say the State Government is ignoring a clear public safety issue, by failing to help when whale carcasses wash ashore.

Published on: GreenCareer

The Federal Government has admonished the Opposition for some strong comments on the future of the coal industry.

Published on: GreenCareer

Victorian authorities are looking into claims of corruption in the state’s Liberal Party.

Published on: GovernmentCareer - Local

The Federal Government has unveiled its plan to help aid workers in the fight against Ebola – months after the deadly outbreak began - but already, questions are being asked by medical professionals.

Published on: OHSCareer

The delicate dance of two photons has allowed researchers to clear one more hurdle on the long path to the quantum-computing future.

Published on: EngineeringCareer

The Federal Government’s Green Army has been mobilised, and one of its first missions will see young unemployed people helping to restore the Tuggerah Lakes in New South Wales.

Published on: GreenCareer

Some more money has been provided to fund changes to the way Kakadu National Park is managed.

Published on: GreenCareer

Dry times in NSW mean tough decisions on the way for Broken Hill, and one MP is urging “factual discussion” over “hysterical commentary”.

Published on: WaterCareer

Five remote Queensland councils have formed a water alliance, joining forces to save money while keeping pace with changes in regulation and management.

Published on: WaterCareer

One tropical council has banned future coal-seam gas projects amid fears it will affect water quality.

Published on: GreenCareer

A new survey says the number of female top-level executives has dropped.

Published on: ExecutiveCareer

Experts warn that many job advertisements may actually be in breach of human rights law.

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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