Industry News

A Standards Australia Committee in charge of making sure children’s furniture is safe as possible has received and award for its efforts – but the work never stops.

Editor's Opinion - Now that the IPCC has released its Fifth Assessment Report, it’s possible that society will fully accept that the cost of our lifestyle has been borne by nature.

Federal Industry Minister Ian Macfarlane claims that New South Wales will run out of gas by 2016 – possibly leaving thousands without work, unless energy companies leap into coal seams.

Workers at a Western Australian construction project have been fined over a million dollars for going on strike.

A report has quantified the benefits of environmentally-minded building, with data showing the City of Sydney has saved millions with its Better Buildings Partnership.

Rules are being imposed on people and companies who install solar panels, forcing members of the industry to clean up their act.

In extremely small scale technologies for some of the world’s most mind-boggling devices, there are factors at play that can ruin a project from a microscopic scale.

Nurses at the Dubbo Hospital say they have been pushed to the brink by low staffing levels, and are threatening to close beds in the mergency deprtment in protests this afternoon.

A new study published this week reveals the work of an international team of scientists, who combed records to find 48 new possible causes of multiple sclerosis and markers for several similar conditions.

The Fred Hollows Foundation has continued its incredible work restoring sight to the blind, focussed this time on Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory.

A massive effort to move hundreds of patients is complete, marking the official opening of the new Gold Coast University Hospital this week.

Western Australia’s Auditor General says the state’s Health Department is losing revenue from private patients that it should be making, and has been warned about before.

Improved health, a more active mind and free energy – it is hard to imagine a better combination of benefits from a single device.

A hospital-grade lightweight blood flow imager has been cobbled together for around a hundred dollars by some US scientists, and they say it works perfectly.

Everybody wants their own particle accelerator, but colliding hadrons in the comfort of the living room has been impossible for most – until now.

Surgeons in Adelaide have pulled off a nationwide-first – attaching a miniature heart monitor to wirelessly diagnose and manage irregular beats.

Clandestine negotiations have been going on between Telstra and News Corporation to launch a Foxtel-branded broadband service, but reports say the talks have now hit a snag.

A new treatment method is being investigated which could alert people to their binge-eating ways.

Year seven students in New South Wales are helping fulfil one of the Coalition’s visions for the country, using a technology they may not support.

Computer scientists at Princeton University have created a computer algorithm which simulates paint brush strokes in considerable detail.