All posts tagged "Victoria"

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  News and Views

  National skills week launched in Melbourne

  Victorian Minister for Training and Skills Steve Herbert has joined apprentices and trainees for the launch of National Skills Week.

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  Engineering

  Construction surges as Victoria bucks national trend

  Victoria is officially Australia’s construction engine room with a $939 million (9.8 per cent) spike in activity in the year to June...

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  Research

  Injury prevention research for racehorses

  Minister for Racing Martin Pakula announced support for a $5.25 million research project aimed at the early detection and prevention of bone...

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  Medicine

  Medicinal cannabis one step closer for Victorian patients

  Victorian patients are one step closer to accessing medicinal cannabis with the Victorian Government’s horticultural trial entering its second phase and a...

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  Technology

  Headquarters takes Victoria’s digital games sector to new level

  Melbourne’s credentials as Australia’s digital games heartland reached a new level today with the launch of Australia’s largest games development headquarters, Electronic...

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  Research

  Diabetics should put paleo on pause

  People with type 2 diabetes should be wary of social media hype about the benefits of going on the paleo diet.

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  Hope for better treatments for myeloma

  Melbourne researchers have discovered that a new class of anti-cancer agents may be effective in treating multiple myeloma, an incurable bone marrow...

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  Medicine

  Victoria partners in world leading care and cancer agreements

  Victoria has reinforced its support to cancer research and world leading health care by partnering in the Leading Health Systems Network’s Safer...

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  Victoria’s best and brightest minds secure first R&D centre

  The Victorian Government has welcomed Lockheed Martin’s decision to locate its first R&D Centre outside the United States in Melbourne, further boosting...

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  Hospital waiting lists at six-year low

  The number of Victorian patients waiting for elective surgery is at its lowest level since June 2010.