Australia has appointed its first anti-slavery watchdog.

A new report takes an in-depth look at Australians’ views on mining.

The UN says much more climate adaptation is needed as global temperatures creep dangerously close to a 1.5°C increase.

New legislation has been introduced to make free TAFE permanent.

Legislation to ban social media access for those under 16 is expected to pass Parliament soon.

A former Home Affairs employee has been given a suspended jail sentence for unauthorised access to records.

Parliament House is still an unsafe workplace, a new report reveals.

A new report suggests Australia’s mental health care system is stretched beyond its limits.

The 29th UN Climate Change Conference, COP29, kicks off in Baku, Azerbaijan this week.

A government inquiry is looking at ways to keep heavy industries competitive in a net zero world.

Electricity prices have been cooling off, but a new report shows market volatility remains a concern.

Progress is being made on Queensland’s colossal new wind farm.

New research reveals that carbon emissions from private jets soared by 46 per cent between 2019 and 2023.

Despite comprising nearly 90 per cent of Australia's nursing workforce, new stats show female nurses face a persistent and widening pay gap.

Australia’s pharmacy landscape will shift with approval for the merger of Chemist Warehouse and Sigma Healthcare.

The UN is revisiting nuclear war risks, thirty-five years and many threats after its most recent review.

Australia’s VET regulator, ASQA, appears to be failing the fraud prevention test.

Three people have been jailed over a $5.8 million NDIS fraud.

The federal government appears to have shelved its long-promised local content rules for streamers.

Queensland is facing backlash as its Truth-Telling Inquiry grinds to a halt.

The corruption watchdog says its integrity work is messy, controversial, and only just beginning.

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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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