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To mark the launch of the National Asbestos Awareness Campaign (November) to raise vital awareness of the dangers of asbestos among Australian homeowners, renovators and tradies, the Asbestos Diseases Research Institute (ADRI) announced an international first in the campaign for a global ban on asbestos.
Queensland has emerged as Australia’s favourite destination for interstate moves, ABS data shows.
Wellington New Zealand scientists have found a ‘perfectly preserved’ 106-year-old fruitcake in a remote Antarctic hut.
The Australian Taxation Office (ATO) is providing taxpayers with simple ways to protect themselves from scammers and identity theft as part of Stay Smart Online week.
An Australian professor is pushing ahead with a simple test that could result in stillbirth rates plummeting worldwide.
The International Olympic Committee has awarded the 2024 summer Olympic Games and the 2028 following a vote in the Peruvian capital.
Photographer Camille Seaman shoots icebergs, showing the world the complex beauty of these massive, ancient chunks of ice. Dive in to her photo slideshow, “The Last Iceberg.”
Older Victorians lost more than $4.5 million to scammers in 2016, with the government launching a new awareness campaign to stem the flow of cash.
Archeologists have discovered an ancient Egyptian funerary garden on the Dra Abu el-Naga hill in Luxor, which is thought to date from around 2000 BCE.
Successive Australian governments are usually judged on how they balance the budget and spend taxpayers’ dollars. The stereotypes are that Liberal governments keep a tight hold on the purse strings, while Labor governments are spendthrifts. Alan Duncan and Rebecca Cassells explain in some simple charts, just how past and present governments have been spending our dollars.
