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Boardrooms should drive safety culture 12/5/2012

Company boards have a powerful role to play in influencing the safety outcomes of the organisations they govern beyond pure compliance with relevant workplace safety legislation, ...

James Hardie litigation comes at 'staggering cost' 11/21/2012

A corporate governance expert says the final ruling in the James Hardie Industries litigation does provide some broad justice and clarification of directors' duties, but the length ...

Battery paves way for 'intermittent' energy storage 11/15/2012

Queensland technology company, RedFlow, recently launched a highly innovative renewable energy battery storage system — the M90 — at the University of Queensland's St Lucia campus.

Powering one of Australia's remotest locations 11/14/2012

An off-grid, sustainable power supply developed by a Curtin University PhD student is being used to power one of the hottest and most remote locations in Australia.

Journalists, pollies and unions top list of least trustworthy 11/7/2012

The media, trade unions and political parties top the list of institutions the public perceives to be the most corrupt and in which they have the least confidence, while 43 per cent ...

Counting the cost of injury in Western Australia 10/31/2012

A Senior Research Fellow with the Centre Population Health Research at Curtin University is uncovering the true cost of injury in Western Australia thanks to a $150,000 research ...

Australia in Asia 'for good times and bad' 10/31/2012

Flinders academic and editor of Asian Studies Review, Dr Michael Barr, has welcomed the Henry Report on Australia in the Asian Century, but with a message of caution.

Funding cuts will derail Australia's research competitiveness 10/23/2012

Cuts to University research funding, announced by the Federal Government will impact on Australia’s research competitiveness and ability to help the community address major social ...

Safety concerns for inexperienced construction supervisors 10/23/2012

Inexperienced workers are being promoted to supervisory roles within the civil construction sector without the specialist training required, according to a new study by Edith Cowan ...

Mouldy SA buildings know their limits 10/16/2012

The acceptable amount of mould in Adelaide workplaces has been officially set for the first time following a collaborative scientific study by Flinders and Adelaide University.

Comfort laboratory tackles indoor climate change 9/3/2012

University of Sydney researchers will be looking for ways to slash one of the world's biggest single sources of energy consumption — the heating and cooling of buildings — at a ...

Mental stigma? Workers less likely to claim for psychological illness 8/26/2012

Research has found workers are significantly less likely to claim GP visits for psychological illnesses on workers' compensation than they are for physical work-related injuries such ...

Nanoparticles could store 'fuel of the future' 8/19/2012

For the first time, engineers at the University of New South Wales have demonstrated hydrogen can be released and reabsorbed from a promising storage material, overcoming a major ...

Blacker photovoltaic panels boost power generation efficiency 7/26/2012

Simple production process for lowering the reflectance of solar panels lends itself to commercialisation.

Study explores apprenticeship, homeless link 7/19/2012

Claims of a growing homelessness risk among apprentices will be the focus of a new study by Flinders University researchers.

Crunch time: demolish or renovate old buildings 7/3/2012

The building boom of the 80s has left Brisbane and much of Australia with a bunch of ageing commercial buildings and a big bill to replace or upgrade them so they can withstand the ...

How the carbon tax works 6/29/2012

Carbon pricing is essentially about ensuring the economy can grow without emissions growing at the same time.

No 'mining boom' in South Australia: report 6/25/2012

A new report by the SA Centre for Economic Studies suggests that while mining activity has grown strongly in South Australia over recent years, the State is not in the middle of a ...

Fighting fires with computer modelling 6/12/2012

Through advanced computer modelling of house fires, mechanical engineers at UNSW are giving fire fighters a new suite of tools to investigate and battle dangerous blazes in time for ...

Bright future for Australian solar research on horizon 6/8/2012

RMIT University has led an international consortium of universities and the CSIRO in a research breakthrough that improves a solar panel technology's efficiency by at least 30 per ...

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