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The Victorian Government has introduced new carryover rules aimed at better protecting reliability of seasonal allocations against water holders’ entitlements.

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released the findings of a report detailing Australians’ views of what progress measn to them.

The Federal Government has launched a new report that has found that rural and regional communities face unique challenges in preventing and recovering from suicides.

CSIRO has announced that Professor Paul Bertsch has been named as the new Chief of its Land and Water division.

Australia is facing a significant shortfall in the number of available crucial business professionals over the coming 12 months, according the latest Clarius Skills Index released earlier this week.

Nominations for the 2013 South Australian Nursing and Midwifery Excellence Awards are now open, with State Minister for Health and Ageing John Hill calling for health workers, patients and their relatives to enter nominations.

The New South Wales Government has flagged major reform to the management of its property portfolio after the Property Asset Utilisation Taskforce (PUAT) handed down its report earlier this week.

Leak detection technology has already helped the Western Australian Water Corporation save over 250 million litres per year, according to State Water Minister Bill Marmion.

The Federal Government has accepted the recommendation of Governor General Quentin Bryce and appointed Patrick Keane as the country’s new Justice of the High Court of Australia and James Allsop as the next Chief Justice of the Federal Govurt.

Sydney Water has outlined $13 million in repair works for two large wastewater pipelines across three Local Government Areas.

The Federal Government has announced a $3.3 million in grant funding for early and mod career researchers in solar technology.

The Federal Government has launched a new toolkit aimed at improving the way unions, employers and business groups can support employees experiencing domestic or family violence and help them remain at work.

The country’s oldest medical research institute, the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute, has unveiled its new $185 million research facility.

The United States’ Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton, has taken part in the official launch of the Perth USAsia Centre, a new Western Austrlian-based institution aimed at strengthening ties between the US, Australia and the Asian region.

The Federal Government’s immigration policy is increasingly out of sync with the needs of the country, with Australians and immigrants vying for local jobs, according to new research released by the Monash University.

A delegation of top RMIT academics has landed in China in a bid to establish a research collaboration with one of China’s leading technological universities, Tsinghua University.

The country’s best higher education teachers have been recognised for their outstanding contribution to education at the 2012 Australian Awards for University Teaching at a gala night at the National Gallery of Australia earlier this week.

The Federal and Territory Governments have announced a $26 million funding boost to the University of Canberra in a bid to help it offer more courses, new entry pathways and access to the latest technologies.

The Victorian Government has released the first draft initiative of the Living Victoria program, with State Minister for Water, Peter Walsh releasing the East Werribee Precinct Structure Plan (PSP).

The CSIRO has released a new report detailing how emerging technologies help emergency services better manage the impacts of natural disasters and minimise their impacts on people, infrastructure and the environment.