Industry News

Most Australian parents do not want fast-food companies plugging their products to kids at sporting grounds.

Authorities are keeping a close eye on the state of the National Disability Insurance Scheme, after the recent COAG (Council of Australian Governments) meeting saw changes made which might indicate a new direction for the plan.

Thousands of Queensland doctors have been angered by changes in their employment conditions, after doctors at public hospitals were moved to individual contracts rather than collective bargaining.

A well-timed report has made a few suggestions to minimise the damage from excess mirth and merry-making this Christmas, unfortunately they involve something other than the couch and leftover turkey.

Global shifts are underway which could lead foreign investors to pull up stumps from Australia, stranding a number of projects and leading to the possibility of “mothballed or abandoned” local coal mines.

Workers who have been building new mines should now be taught to operate them, an oil and gas industry report says.

A worker has reportedly fallen into contaminated waste while cleaning up a large spill of uranium slurry at the Ranger mine in NT.

The federal government of the United States will triple its use of renewable energy by 2020 on a presidential mandate.

Three students have taken first place in a computer competition which required teams to write code for 24 hours straight.

A video game controller that allows people with limited use of their hands to play the latest games has won a design award in South Australia.

One day a selfie might save your life.

Some Australian researchers are beaming with pride to see their little one grow up – scientists in Queensland have guided stem cells to grow into a baby kidney.

A planned succession will see some seat-swapping at the pointy end of global engineering giant AECOM, with the President becoming chief and the chief becoming chairman.

‘Bitcoin’ has been named word of the year by the Australian National Dictionary Centre (ANDC), marking the mainstream landing of the decentralised digital currency.

The tricky wording of one internet company’s advertisements has come back to bite them, and will take a bigger chunk than originally thought.

New research suggests that studying music has very little impact on a child’s general intelligence, with a finding that could spell an end to French horn lessons around the world.

The New South Wales Government will re-open a school that seeks to provide courses in one of Australia’s most neglected fields.

The Australian Education Union (AEU) has raised concerns after Northern Territory Police suddenly armed its school-based police officers.

A resplendent green phoenix is rising from the ashes of a Tasmanian primary school.

Figures out this week show that the average Australian woman would have to work 25 years longer to retire on the same amount as a man.