A major builder is investing $1.2 million in safety after two severe incidents.

Scientists in the US have linked 22 pesticides to prostate cancer, raising fresh concerns for farmers.

Queensland has ditched some high-ranking public servants as part of its cabinet overhaul.

Defence faces the most substantial cuts in the APS’s contractor reduction plan.

Australia is getting a CDC, years after facing COVID-19 without a playbook.

A review has found Australia’s health and medical research workforce is diverse and motivated, but facing challenges.

Federal ministers will visit industrial heartlands to see how to retain regional jobs.

Australia’s top corporations have paid record taxes, but over 1,200 still managed to pay nothing.

British researchers have looked at international examples to see how to get more teachers into schools.

Most Western Australians are unaware kids as young as ten can be jailed.

NSW teachers have approved a new three-year pay and conditions agreement.

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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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