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- Education Training, Industrial Relations
- 04/02/2026
- 07:00
QLD Catholic school teachers and support staff want action now on wages and workloads
Key Facts: Teachers and support staff in Queensland Catholic schools are demanding immediate action on wages and workloads as collective bargaining negotiations begin. Heavy…
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- Telecommunication
- 04/02/2026
- 06:45
Media Release – Cut-price telco licences must also deliver better mobile coverage
Australia’s big three telcos are set to be handed a billion-dollar discount on the license fees they pay to use critical public assets with…
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- Finance Investment, Political
- 04/02/2026
- 06:05
Shield and First Guardian collapses spotlight need for Federal Budget to fast-track stronger super protections
The Super Members Council is urging the Australian Government to fast-track and fund a comprehensive package of stronger super consumer protections in the 2026 Budget to safeguard Australians’ life savings. The Council warns the high-profile collapses of Shield and First Guardian – in which 12,000 Australians lost $1 billion in high-risk products - have shown the need for urgent reforms to strengthen consumer protections and close regulatory gaps to prevent such disasters from happening in the first place. The package of protections should include a crackdown on aggressive selling of super products through social media ads and cold calling, and…
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- Environment, Government Federal
- 04/02/2026
- 06:00
New EV loans help at the dealership but families are still paying too much at home
Discounted loans for electric vehicles (EVs) will help Australians ditch petrol cars sooner, but Rewiring Australia says the government must go further if low-income households and pensioners are to share in the savings from lower power bills. The Federal Government has announced $60 million in discounted EV loans through its Clean Energy Finance Corporation, aimed at reducing upfront costs for popular EV models and accelerating the shift away from petrol-powered transport. Rewiring Australia has welcomed the move as good news for Australians in the market for a new car, but says money could still be better spent investing in policies…
- Community, LGBTQIA
- 04/02/2026
- 06:00
Community innovations help ensure no one is left behind in Australia’s HIV response
MEDIA RELEASE ViiV Healthcare Australia’s Positive Action Community Grant (PACG) program supports innovative, grassroots projects that reach those most affected by, or at risk of HIV particularly in marginalised, vulnerable or underrepresented groups, including multicultural communities, women, and First Nations people living with HIV. Six Australian organisations will receive a Positive Action Community Grant: Living Positive Victoria, The National Association of People with HIV Australia, Positive Life NSW, Tasmanian Council on AIDS, Hepatitis and Related Diseases, Thorne Harbour Health and WA AIDS Council. Awarded at the end of 2025, the Positive Action Community Grant recipients look to leverage storytelling, education,…
- Crime, Government Federal
- 04/02/2026
- 06:00
New data reveals soaring prison costs across Australia: a convict country following the American model
Australia’s continued reliance on incarceration is costing taxpayers more each year, with new data showing the ‘revolving door’ back into prison is becoming further entrenched as governments double down on the American approach of building more expensive prisons while ignoring the evidence about what actually reduces crime. The Productivity Commission’s latest Report on Government Services, released late Tuesday, reveals that total net operating and capital costs for Australian prisons have skyrocketed to more than $7.3 billion, representing a 5% increase since 2021-22. At the same time, the proportion of people returning to prison within two years has climbed to a…
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- Medical Health Aged Care
- 04/02/2026
- 06:00
Cancer’s Achilles’ heel: Monash researchers discover how to ‘switch off’ cancer genes for good
Monash University researchers, in collaboration with Harvard University, have discovered how to permanently ‘switch off’ cancer causing genes, revealing a new approach to cancer treatment. The breakthrough, published in the prestigious Nature Cell Biology, could result in shorter treatment periods and dramatically reduce the debilitating side effects that often come with cancer treatment. The research focuses on epigenetic therapy, where patients take a drug that alters how their genes are switched on or off, resetting the harmful changes brought about by cancer mutations. This includes some aggressive forms of acute leukaemia driven by a genetic error that hijacks the cell’s…
- Technology Innovation
- 04/02/2026
- 03:41
Medical-imaging company Imagion Biosystems Lodges IND with FDA for Phase 2 Trial of MagSense® HER2 targeted imaging agent
MELBOURNE, Australia–BUSINESS WIRE– Imagion Biosystems, Ltd. (ASX: IBX) announced that the company has lodged an Investigational New Drug (IND) application with the U.S. Food…
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- Technology Innovation
- 04/02/2026
- 03:11
Vena To Acquire Acterys, Creating a New Category of Enterprise Performance Management: Orchestrated Planning
The acquisition unites finance foresight and IT innovation in the first Microsoft-native Orchestrated Planning environment, helping enterprises plan better and achieve more by turning…
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