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Researchers at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions (CEED) have warned that as sea levels climb, Australia's coastal wetlands will be increasingly trapped between urban development on land and the rising ocean, imperilling the survival of their unique plants, birds and fish.

Published on: GreenCareer

UNSW researchers have discovered a new strain of norovirus that they warn could cause a severe epidemic of acute gastroenteritis in Australia this winter.

Published on: HealthCareer

Adelaide ‘car-to-car’ communications technology company Cohda Wireless has attracted an undisclosed investment deal from global networking equipment firm Cisco Systems and NXP B.V. a top 10 global semiconductor company.

Published on: EngineeringCareer

The University of South Australia’s Thin Film Coatings Group has entered into a strategic alliance with Swedish research and development company Arubedo AB to bring new electronic products to market.

Published on: EngineeringCareer

Lindsay Island in the Murray Sunset National Park will be Victoria’s first project to recover water for the environment using the Murray Darling-Basin Plan adjustment mechanism.

Published on: WaterCareer

The Federal Government has announced additional funding to extend the demonstration phase of the Queensland-based Callide Oxyfuel project by fifteen months.

Published on: GreenCareer

The Productivity Commission has released an issues paper on Mineral and Energy Resource Exploration as part of its inquiry into the non-financial barriers to mineral and energy resource exploration in Australia.

Published on: ResourcesCareer

Mr Peter Harris has been appointed as the new Chair of the Productivity Commission.

Published on: GovernmentCareer - Federal

Ray Creen  has been appointed chief executive of the Ambulance Service of NSW.

Published on: HealthCareer

Canadian public health expert Dr Jean-Frederic Levesque has been appointed as the new Chief Executive of the New South Wales Government’s Bureau of Health Information.

Published on: HealthCareer

Australian and US photovoltaic research centres are combining forces to develop the next generation of solar technologies.

Published on: ResearchCareer

A new Australia-China Research Centre for Light Metals (ACCLiM), to be headed by Monash University's Professor Xinhua Wu and Prof Xinming Zhang, Central-South University, China has been announced.

Published on: EngineeringCareer

The Translational Medicinal Chemistry Facility at Monash University’s Parkville campus has been officially launched as a  collaborative partnership between the Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences (MIPS)  and the Federal and Victorian Governments and private industry.

Published on: HealthCareer

A  new national program to be led by Monash University with funding from the Federal Department of Health and Ageing will address predicted delays in access to radiation treatment due to increasing demand in the ageing population.

Published on: HealthCareer

Synnex Australia has commenced construction of its new logistics centre in Lidcombe.

Published on: ICTCareer

Renewable energy sources are projected to account for about half of Australia’s electricity generation by 2049-50, according to the Australian energy projections to 2049-50, released by the Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics (BREE).

Published on: GreenCareer

Scientists at CSIRO and RMIT University have produced a new two-dimensional material that could revolutionise the electronics market.

Published on: EngineeringCareer

Excessive and overly complex regulation is crippling productivity at a national and industry level, according to a survey report prepared by the Australian Financial Services Council-DST Global Solutions.

 

Published on: ExecutiveCareer

Echo Entertainment has announced the appointment of John Redmond as the company’s new Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer.

 

Published on: ExecutiveCareer

The CEO Magazine has named the winners of this year’s Executive of the Year Awards, naming 14 of the country’s top bosses from a pool of over 500 entrties.

Published on: ExecutiveCareer

The Treasurer and Interim CEO of the Association of Financial Advisers, Brad Fox, has been named as the association’s new CEO following the departure of Richard Kiplin.

Published on: ExecutiveCareer

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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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