Opposition leader Tony Abbott will promise business a 1.5% company tax cut from July 1 2015, at a cost of $5 billion over the budget period. Abbott will say the measure will further help Australian businesses…
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CSIRO researchers are trialling an app that aims to allow elderly people to live at home safely for longer by subtly collecting data on their movements around the house. Australia’s ageing population is…
Use of the anti-cancer drug Tamoxifen is associated with a dramatically reduced risk of developing a second breast tumour among women with a high risk gene mutation who have experienced breast cancer already…
The higher education sector’s main regulatory body should have its functions reduced, according to a new government report that has called for a reduction in red tape for universities. The Tertiary Education…
The government has handed out $200 million to help the embattled car industry, in its first major campaign commitment, as well as mandating a 100% Australian-made target for the purchase of Commonwealth…
Kevin Rudd has called an election for September 7, with Labor and the Coalition entering the campaign close in two party terms and the next five weeks likely to be decisive for the outcome. Rudd went to…
The deficit will blow out to $30 billion this financial year and Australia will remain in the red for 12 months longer than the budget promised, after a $33 billion write-down in revenue. Growth has been…
Tony Abbott has moved to neutralise school funding as an election issue by promising to match “dollar for dollar” the money that Labor has promised over the next four years. Making his dramatic announcement…
One week of camping outdoors and eschewing all man-made light is enough to reset a person’s body clock to its natural sleep rhythms, a new study has found. Our increased use of electrical light, and reduced…
The government will introduce a scheme to insure deposits in Australian banks, which will raise $733 million over four years to help the embattled budget bottom line. If passed on in full to deposit customers…
Marine scientists at the Australian Museum have sounded the alarm over an invasive underwater worm discovered in Sydney’s Botany Bay – the farthest north the pest has ever been spotted in NSW. The European…
The Business Council of Australia has urged a higher, broader GST and an effort to boost the participation of women in the labour force, in an economic action plan released today. It says there should…
Children from low socioeconomic backgrounds are already more likely to be overweight by age four than median income families, but the differences become much more marked as childhood progresses, a new…
There has been no growth in greenhouse gas emissions in Australia over the last decade, despite economic growth of 31% over the same period, a new report has found. The findings show that conversion to…
A speaker’s social status can affect how we interpret their words, a German study has found. The study, published in the journal PLOS ONE, involved researchers showing the study’s 18 German participants…
A male kangaroo’s forearm size could be a sexually selected trait and help them find a mate, a new study has found. In fact, male kangaroos frequently adopt poses to show off their muscly arms to females…
Australian researchers are developing a new tool to help track and manage the vast numbers of disease-carrying insects blown from Asia into northern Australia every year by cyclones and monsoon winds…
The history of Australian asylum seeker policy is studded with iconic if often distressing imagery. In the most recent addition, officials at Christmas Island filmed and photographed a young Iranian woman…
The archaeologist who helped discover the extinct Homo species Flores Hobbit, Professor Mike Morwood, has died after a struggle with cancer. New Zealand-born Professor Morwood, who was based at the School…
Prime minister Kevin Rudd and Education Minister Bill Shorten will meet Victorian Premier Denis Napthine today, in a push to get the state to sign up soon to the Better Schools Program. This follows the…
Rising temperatures are linked to a decrease in carbon dioxide (CO2) absorption by tropical forests, according to a 50-year study published today. Greenhouse gases, such as CO2, contribute to global warming…
The government’s proposed cap on work-related education expense deductions will decrease long run GDP by between A$2.8 and $6 billion per year and cut national productivity growth by between 0.2 to 0.4…
The empirical test of the Australian government’s refugee resettlement agreement with Papua New Guinea will be whether there is a decline in the numbers of small fishing boats overloaded with desperate…
Plain packaging on tobacco products is associated with lower smoking appeal, greater support for the policy and a higher urgency to quit among adult smokers, a new study has found. The study, conducted…
Almost two thirds of men aged 45 and over have reported experiencing erectile dysfunction, a new study has shown. The study, published in the Medical Journal of Australia, examined data on health, socio-demographic…