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Doubleduke tree protest

Lismore law student Kashmir Miller was today dangling from a tree 25 m up attached to 3 tree harvesting implements. She was in the Doubleduke State Forest 50 km south of Lismore where a sizeable chunk of the forest has been closed whilst some tree harvesting is taking place. Habitat has been greatly decreased for …

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RBA Interest Rates Pause

Economists were divided on whether the RBA would pause their incremental rises in Interest Rates in their battle against inflation. The tipping of the balance in favour of holding the existing rates was the better than expected Inflation figures from last week; indicating that finally the interest rate rises were gaining traction. Mortgage holders will …

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Tough task to train enough people for nuclear submarine program

An Australian researcher says Australia faces an ‘incredibly difficult’ task over the next 15 to 20 years to train enough people to support the AUKUS nuclear submarine program.   According to the UNSW Head of Nuclear Engineering Program, there will be major challenges in identifying and training vast numbers of a three-tiered workforce required for …

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