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Scientists looking at prototype. | Newsreel

Prototyping facility the missing link in manufacturing

Australia is missing a national prototyping network which help would keep local ideas, innovation and entrepreneurs onshore. Science & Technology Australia (STA)
Read more 10 February 2025
Organ transplant. | Newsreel

Australian human tissue laws to be reviewed

Australian laws regarding the use of human tissue will be reviewed for the first time in almost 50 years. University of Adelaide lecturer Dr Maeghan Toews has been
Read more 10 February 2025
Online hate graphic. | Newsreel

Online hate on the rise for targeted groups

More Australians are becoming victims of online hate, with the perpetrator usually a stranger and social media the platform. eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said
Read more 10 February 2025
Hot sun. | Newsreel

2024 Australia’s second hottest year on record

Last year was Australia’s second-warmest year on record and the wettest in more than 12 years. The figures were revealed as the Bureau of Meteorology (BOM)
Read more 7 February 2025
Hospital surgery. | Newsreel

$414m boost to Queensland health services

Queensland will receive more than $400 million from a $1.7 billion Federal boost to funding for Australia’s public hospitals and health services next year. Federal
Read more 6 February 2025
Chicken being tested. | Newsreel

Bird flu eradicated from Aussie flocks, but H5 threatens

Australia has been declared free of high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI), as another strain of bird flu threatens. The Federal Government has advised the World
Read more 6 February 2025
Young boy at child care centre. | Newsreel

New laws to guarantee three days of cheap child care

Federal Parliament is considering legislation which would guarantee three days a week of subsidised early education for all children from 2026. Federal Education
Read more 6 February 2025
Clothes shop worker. | Newsreel

Retailers keen on action to cut crime and red tape

A change in the definition of a small business and a concerted effort to address retail crime are among the issues peak retail bodies want the Federal Government to
Read more 6 February 2025
Construction workers. | Newsreel

New employment laws drive spike in collective bargaining

A report on the impact of new Federal employment laws has shown an increase in collective bargaining and real wages since the legislation was passed, but has been
Read more 5 February 2025
Border between the USA and Canada. | Newsreel

Australia won’t avoid fallout from Trump tariff tirade

By Scott French In a hectic 24 hours of trade diplomacy, US President Donald Trump has paused his threatened 25 percent tariffs on US imports from Canada and Mexico,
Read more 5 February 2025