Industry News

Federal Court action has been launched against Australia’s washing powder barons.

One council has become the first in Tasmania to implement the Local Government Peak Oil Action Plan, which seeks to help fight the ever-increasing cost of fuel.

All councils will be looking to save a few dollars at the moment, and the Local Government Association of Queensland (LGAQ) has urged its members to think of technological ways to tighten the belt.

About 48,000 Queensland public servants have earned a “fair and reasonable” salary increase of 2.2 per cent per year over three years, ending more than 18 months of negotiations.

Millions of dollars have been provided to allow more Indigenous and disadvantaged Australians to attend university.

Statistics show one bureaucratic base is a fair way from hitting its Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employment targets, and may be filling low-level jobs just to boost numbers.

Australia may get to vote on which measures, if any, should be applied to stem the flow of money pouring into poker-machines around the country.

Regional Development Australia says the Federal Government is neglecting one of its most vulnerable communities by ignoring the closure of a Northern Territory refinery, and the likely ruination of nearby residents.

There has long been a perception that the public sector enjoys a bit of regulation, but a recent speech from Dr Ian Watt says the opposite is now the way.

An agreement has been struck to change the relationship between the governments of Australia and Papua New Guinea.

The Council region within which a contentious port expansion has been approved is looking to ensure it can be used for something other than coal.

A local report has accused Centrelink’s national boss of racking up excess costs, while the department sacks hundreds of workers.

Almost no-one likes putting in eye drops, and studies have shown that a number of factors make them a fairly ineffective way to dispense medicine – now a new device may end the age of ocular inconvenience and injury for many.

In the growing embryo, cells jostle for space by tugging and nudging their neighbours, and now there is a way to measure the tiny forces they exert on each other in the struggle for life.

An astral drive-by has provided new footage of something we all take for granted – the orbit of the moon around Earth.

A new study has determined how big an eruption occurred last time Mount Gambier blew its lid, and how bad it might be if the Australian volcano fired off again.

One university is taking a high-tech and democratic approach to biosecurity research, with the launch of a smartphone app to let citizen-scientists help stamp out tree disease.

Dredging has been approved that many believe will condemn the Great Barrier Reef to silty strangulation.

Six hundred gigalitres of water from the River Murray system, the Goulburn and Murrumbidgee Rivers will be pushed where it is needed most, according to Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for the Environment, Senator Simon Birmingham.

University of Queensland researchers have stood in opposition to the reduction of services for pregnant women, supporting nurses in a rally at a Brisbane hospital.