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Trade general manager to oversee export strategy

Australia’s horticulture Research and Development Corporation announced the appointment of a dedicated Trade and Export General Manager as it continues to strengthen...
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Still time to give some canola crops nitrogen boost

Canola growers in low to medium rainfall areas experiencing a good start to the season still have time to apply top-up nitrogen.
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Increasing business profits though safe chemical handling

Farmsafe WA Alliance and AusChem WA have joined forces.
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Crystallising Australia’s sugar flow into Asia

Asian consumers are increasingly hungry for sugar, but Australia’s sugar industry will need to focus on productivity improvements and market access if...
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BCA on Victoria’s Renewables Targets

“Victoria’s latest announcement of renewable targets represents an unwelcome return to competing state climate change policies that risk driving up the cost...
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End to unpopular taxes good news for business

The NSW Business Chamber said the State Government’s confirmation that all Intergovernmental Agreement Taxes ...
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Research accelerates next-generation ultra-precise sensing technology

The mining, navigation, minerals exploration and environmental hydrology sectors are set to benefit from new University of Queensland research into quantum technology.
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Child’s play: Australia’s newest roboticists see eye-to-eye with R2-D2

Children from age four can become robot programmers rather than waiting for the higher years in schooling, says a QUT education researcher.
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ASKAP telescope creates world-first image of the cosmos

How’s camera technology these days, huh? From Go Pros hurtling out of the stratosphere, to the latest face-swap app on your iPhone,...
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Learn astrophysics – then eat your experiments!

Don’t put astrophysics in the too-hard basket – put it in the kitchen.

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A new international study has measured the effect of loud sounds on migrating humpback whales as concern grows as oceans become noisier.

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The Victorian Government is preparing students across Victoria to be cyber ready through the state’s Victorian Cyber Schools Skills Challenge, which kicked off in August 2017.

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Dr Kai Chan from the ANU Research School of Biology has been named 2017 ACT Scientist of the Year by ACT Chief Minister Andrew Barr MLA at a ceremony as part of National Science Week.

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Kids might turn their noses up at brussels sprouts, but how will they react to being served a fried house cricket?

Young Tassie Scientist Shasta Henry will be putting kids to the taste test at the George Town Bigger Science Expo, and can’t wait to see the results.

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The Sunshine Coast’s plant diversity has helped University of Queensland researchers confirm that nurture has the upper hand – at least when it comes to plant microbes.

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Get FactsThursday, August 10th, 2017 at 6:46pm

Hopes of finding an early-warning signal for ovarian cancer have been boosted by a protein discovery at the Hunter Medical Research Institute (HMRI).

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With pest animals estimated to cost the Australian economy up to $1 billion a year, CSIRO scientists have developed a humane new technology that could help save Australian farmers’ crops and livelihoods.

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Get FactsTuesday, August 8th, 2017 at 5:31pm

QUT researchers and Australian biotech company HFPA are hoping to turn a native Australian plant into a major new antibiotic after discovering the plant possesses antibacterial activity equivalent to some antibiotics currently used to treat Golden Staph infections.

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Get FactsMonday, August 7th, 2017 at 5:20pm

International researchers have travelled to Townsville to the National Sea Simulator (SeaSim) at the Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) as part of cutting edge research to help save the world’s fish.

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Get FactsFriday, August 4th, 2017 at 6:00pm

A team of researchers from the University of Wollongong (UOW) and the University of Tasmania has developed a new method for assessing the health of fragile Antarctic vegetation using drones, which they say could be used to improve the efficiency of ecological monitoring in other environments as well.

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New method faster, more efficient and less damaging to the environment. A team of researchers from the University of Wollongong (UOW) and the University of Tasmania has developed a new method for assessing the health of fragile Antarctic vegetation using drones, which they say could be used to impro...

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Trade general manager to oversee export strategy

Still time to give some canola crops nitrogen boost

Increasing business profits though safe chemical handling

Crystallising Australia’s sugar flow into Asia

BCA on Victoria’s Renewables Targets

End to unpopular taxes good news for business

Research accelerates next-generation ultra-precise sensing technology

Child’s play: Australia’s newest roboticists see eye-to-eye with R2-D2

ASKAP telescope creates world-first image of the cosmos

Learn astrophysics – then eat your experiments!

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