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

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

The Australian Passport Office (APO) has faced strong criticism following an audit.

Labor is promising more free TAFE and HECS reforms in what is seen as a pre-election rally.

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

Australia’s energy market is feeling the chill, but coal and gas have kept the lights on.

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

Australia’s climate is warming fast, bringing harsher fires, hotter seas, and shifting rainfall extremes.

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

Australia’s financial services need stronger competition and consumer protections, the ACCC says.

The NACC is reconsidering its Robodebt decision after a misconduct finding.

Commonwealth leaders have declared it is time to address reparations for slavery.

The NSW Government is imposing a new tax hike on private health insurers.

The consumer watchdog has taken Optus to court over alleged unethical sales.

Big money is showing mixed opinions on nuclear power.

A new federal scheme aims to support women’s career development in various sectors.

How nations thrive - or fail - hinges largely on their political and economic institutions.

Researchers are calling for urgent action to curb gambling’s rising health impacts.

A review has been launched after NSW overcharged millions in merchant fees - despite knowing it was illegal.

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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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