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The emerging cloud services environment is an indispensible tool for human resources in the delivery of their services, according to an international report released by professional services firm Deloitte.

Published on: ICTCareer

The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) has released the highest life expectancy estimates ever recorded in Australia.

Published on: HealthCareer

The latest figures released by the Housing Industry Association (HIA) and Australian Industry Group (AI Group) show that the rate of construction in the housing industry has begun to soften, posting 35.8, up 4.9 points, where any recording below 50 is a contraction and the distance from 50 indicates the rate of contraction.

 

Published on: TradesCareer

The Victorian Government has appointed career public servant Lynne Bertolini as the State's inaugural Freedom of Information (FoI) Commissioner.

Published on: GovernmentCareer - State

The Federal Government has announced $1.1 billion in new funding for preschool and kindergarten in a bid to ensure all children can access 15 hours a week of early childhood education in the year before they start school.

 

Published on: EducationCareer

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has published a list setting out the points of interconnection to the National Broadband Network (NBN).

 

Published on: ICTCareer

The Federal Government has announced it has abandoned plans for the ever unpopular internet filter, with Minister for Communications, Broadband the Digital Economy, Senator Stephen Conroy, announcing the Government will instead use pre-existing legislation to block child abuse websites identified by Interpol.

Published on: ICTCareer

The Victorian Government's Banksia Working Group has announced a series of support measures aimed at providing immediate assistance to communities impacted by the recent collapse of the Banksia Finance Group.

 

Published on: FinanceCareer

The Tasmanian Government has announced the winners of the 2012 International Education Awards, with State Minister for Education, Nick McKim, presenting the awards.

 

Published on: EducationCareer

The Victorian Government has awarded the $26.5 million tender for the construction of the new Surf Coast Secondary College in Torquay to Ireland Brown Constructions.

 

Published on: EducationCareer

The Queensland Government has decided not to lower levels in the Wivenhoe and North Pine Dams for the 2012-13 wet season.

Published on: WaterCareer

The Queensland Government has announced it will develop a long-term solution to protect water quality in the Fitzroy Basin catchment.

Published on: WaterCareer

Transfield services has announced it has been awarded the $200 million contract to provide maintenance and operations services to QGC’s upstream coal seam gas (CSG) assets in Queensland.

 

Published on: EngineeringCareer

Long serving director of Qantas John Schubert has announced he is to retire from his position of Director of Qantas after serving 12 years in the role.

Published on: ExecutiveCareer

The Federal Government has released it’s long awaited Energy White Paper, which is due to form the centrepiece of the country’s future energy policy.

Published on: GreenCareer

Yellow Brick Road has announced it has launched ‘an assault’ on the banking sector in a bid to establish ‘a much-needed alternative for Australian consumers’ by providing a range of mortgage products with banking and wealth management solutions to come online by 2013.

 

Published on: FinanceCareer

Business confidence has plummeted to the lowest point in four-years, according to a new report released by New Port Consulting.

Published on: FinanceCareer

Australia's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate decreased slightly but the rounded estimate remained at 5.4 per cent in October, as announced by the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS). 

Published on: FinanceCareer

Historic buildings, landscapes, parks and monuments are set to enjoy strengthened protection under the recently released City of Melbournne Heritage Strategy.

Published on: GovernmentCareer - Local

The cities of Hobart and Launceston have announced they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to drive closer ties between the cities.

Published on: GovernmentCareer - Local

The Federal Government has revealed the next location of one of its research data storage sites in Victoria.

Published on: ICTCareer

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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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