Industry News

ANZ has announced that Alex Thursby, CEO International and Institutional Banking, will step down from the role following his decision to take up the role Chief Executive of an unspecified bank in the Middle East.

The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) has announced it has left the country’s official cash rate at 3.0 per cent, following the Board’s meeting earlier this week.

The University of Canterbury (UC) has launched a new research program aimed at examining how trauma is understood by the public and medical community, and what sort of treatment is made available after traumatic events.

The New South Wales Government is encouraging the state’s irrigators to participate in the 2013 Irrigators Survey.

The majority of HR professionals worldwide do not know how their company’s workfrce potential is affecting their company’s bottom line, according to global talent measurement firm SHL.

Children who have an earlier onset of puberty are significantly more likely to experience poorer mental health, according to a new study conducted by the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI).

Australia’s heatwaves are lasting longer, are occurring more regularly and are getting increasingly hotter, according to a new research report conducted by the University of New South Wales (UNSW).

People who spread personal affects, such as posters and photos, in their open-plan office areas are happier than those who try to place barriers between themselves and their colleagues, new pilot study coming from the University of Queensland has found.

Working in conjunction with a team of international research specialists, University of South Australia researchers have tracked down a hereditary gene responsible for a common form of epilepsy, known as focal or partial epilepsy.

The Australian Academy of Science’s President and career-long cancer research Professor Suzanne Cory has become the first Australian to be admitted into the Japanese Academy.

Nearly a million Australians have reported feeling discriminated against by their employers over the recent years, a new University of Melbourne study has found.

A new report shows that climate change is posing greater risk for investors than previously thought.

The Federal Government has announced that selected Western Australian schools will participate in the new Improving Literacy and Numeracy National Partnership (ILNNP).

The Victorian Government has invited businesses to submit their proposals for the extension of Melbourne’s iconic Federation Square.

The Queensland Government’s Greentape Reduction Act has come into effect over this week, with the Government claiming that small businesses will start ‘saving thousands of dollars’.

Victoria will receive an additional $37 million in funding over four years to deliver new initiatives under the Commonwealth-State National Partnership Agreement Supporting Mental Health Reform.

Western Australia is set to get its first uranium mine after the Federal Government granted environmental approval to the Wiluna uranium project.

Twenty of the nation’s top scientists have been elected as Fellows of the Australian Academy of Science in 2013.

The Federal Government has announced a $320 million agreement with the states and territories which will ensure the continued provision of vital homelessness services.

Mining giant Rio tinto has announced the official launch of its Asia Technology Centre (ATC) in a bid to ‘serve the growing market for borates in Asia’.