Most Australians would rather die at home than in a hospital ward, so why aren't we enabling this?Flickr/anique, CC BY-SAWhere do you want to die? Provided symptoms can be controlled, most people at the end of life prefer to die at home. However, just over half of Australians who died in 2011-12 died in hospital.
In the same year, about A$2.4...
The OPAL reactor at Lucas Heights in Sydney produces radioactive materials for medicine and manufacturing. AAP Image/Tracey NearmyThe Federal government has recently announced six potential sites for a low-level nuclear waste repository: Sallys Flat in New South Wales, Hale in the Northern Territory, Cortlinye, Pinkawillinie and Barndioota in...
To position itself as a leader in innovation, Australian business will have to be more diverse.Image sourced from www.shutterstock.comLeaders of innovative companies aggressively invest in research and development (R&D) to create new products, services, and technologies – even if these cannibalise short-term profits. Unsurprisingly,...
Even Tyrannosaurus rex had to deal with the smaller irritations in life.Pixabay/AnoviJoe, CC BYDinosaurs were the dominant group of terrestrial vertebrate animals for more than a hundred million years. Some of them grew to gargantuan sizes but even these mighty creatures would have fallen prey to parasites.
But when you look back on the geological...
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