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Despite a steady stream of media reports to the contrary, ICT remains a predominately in-house affair, according to Ovum’s recent survey of the nation’s leading Chief Information Officers.

Published on: ExecutiveCareer

More young Australians are completing Year 12 or an equivalent school or non-school qualification, according to the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Published on: EducationCareer

The number of people working as independent contractors in Australia decreased over the last two years, according to a report released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics. 

Published on: TradesCareer

Australians will soon have access to world-beating download speeds of up to 1,000 Mbps under a new wholesaler plan announced by the National Broadband Network Co (NBN Co)

Published on: ICTCareer

Optus has announced it has been awarded a new five-year, $60 million contract with Suretek for the delivery of fixed network and high-speed mobile services in the Asia-Pacific region.

Published on: ICTCareer

Federal Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, has claimed to have ‘torn the shreds’ out of the assumptions underpinning the Opposition’s claims that the National Broadband Network could exceed $90 billion in final costs.

Published on: ICTCareer

The Federal Government has announced it will continue its capital funding program for non-government schools, with Parliamentary Secretary for School Education Jacinta Collins outlining a $134 million Capital Grants Program.

Published on: EducationCareer

The average waiting time for elective surgery is continuing to hover at around 36 days, according to the latest figures released by the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW).

Published on: HealthCareer

The Federal Government has announced it will deliver $777 million to fund its share of the renewed National Partnership on Closing the Gap in Indigenous Health Outcomes for a further three years ending in June 2016.

Published on: HealthCareer

More and more of the nation’s borrowers are missing repayments, according to the latest Fitch Ratings Dinkum Index.

Published on: FinanceCareer

The much-debated Gonski Report into school funding rests atop five faulty assumptions that undermine its effectiveness as an education policy, a new University of Melbourne study has found.

Published on: EducationCareer

Mining behemoth BHP Billiton has announced a senior reshuffle of its senior management team as incoming CEO Andrew Mackenzie moves in to the company’s top job.

Published on: ExecutiveCareer

Australians are increasingly returning to their spend-thrift ways, with more consumers planning to use their credit cards this quarter, while savings will be less of a focus, according to the latest research from Dunn and Bradstreet (D&B).

Published on: FinanceCareer

The Northern Territory Government has announced it will not be moving to introduce a gas reservation policy, saying that to do so would stifle business and reduce investment opportunity.

Published on: ResourcesCareer

The Queensland Government has tabled legislation before Parliament that will see TAFE Queensland established as a new independent statutory body.

Published on: TradesCareer

A new report from Queensland’s Auditor General has found that the state’s councils are facing heightened financial difficulties as successive State Government policies hit hard.

Published on: GovernmentCareer - Local

Federal Resources Minister, Gary Gray, has predicted the country will soon become the world’s largest liquefied natural gas.

Published on: ResourcesCareer

Telstra has won a $1.1 billion, six year contract to deliver telecommunications services to Defence.

Published on: EngineeringCareer

The Queensland Government has outlined a new building code which it says will save homeowners up to $2,000 and will streamline the development application process for building over, or near, sewers, water mains and stormwater drains on domestic home sites.

Published on: TradesCareer

The Queensland Government has announced ‘sweeping changes’ to the administration of health complaints in Queensland, following two reports tabled in State Parliament earlier this week.

Published on: HealthCareer

The New South Wales Government has unveiled a new strategy aimed at wooing international investment, upping exports and creating new jobs.

Published on: LogisticsCareer

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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. 

I am Tim Hall; a red-blooded, beer-drinking, car-driving Australian male who has no interest in watching sports – at least, not the sports played by humans.

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