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Today is International Women in Engineering Day, raising awareness of the achievements of women in engineering. Women’s participation into these areas are constantly growing, despite still being a male-dominated area. Image: Chloe Chang with the Pink Nova Rover which won her team silver in the world championships in Utah Produced By: Netta Finney Featured …
This week, a mentoring program for First Nations Content Creators was launched to tackle the underrepresentation of this sector. The program will provide flights and accommodation to events in major cities, tutoring, upskilling and networking opportunities for First Nations content creators. Story published by Ngaarda Media Produced By: Conrad MacLean Featured In Story: Matty Hills …
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Brisbane teenager Jasmin slept outside in the cold last night. Not because she is homeless, but because she is raising money for homelessness services as part of St Vincent de Paul’s annual sleepout, which runs at the same time as the Vinnies CEO sleepout event. Jasmin shares what it was like to sleep rough for …
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Content warning: the following contains reference to animal suffering and cruelty. A local wombat advocate says “thousands of wombats are buried alive every year.” Legislation enacting greater protections for wombats passed the South Australian Parliament last week following a decade-long fight from advocates to prevent burrow destruction. The Greens Bill will ensure it is explicitly …
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It’s no secret that bees help the environment and play an integral role in the ecosystem. Now, a researcher from Curtin University has found the presence of plants and bee hotels can boost the number of urban bees, after a decline in the species over previous years. The Wire’s contributor from RTR FM, Fiona Bartholomaeus …
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Rates of bowel cancer in adolescents and young adults between the ages of 15-24 years have soared by 266% over the past three decades, according to Bowel Cancer Australia. A medical researcher says self-advocacy is paramount with a new study revealing a perceived ‘age bias’ as a major barrier to diagnosis. The recent research highlights …
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Dr Sophie Scamps the member for Mackellar introduced a new federal bill that would ban junk food advertising from 6am to 9:30pm each day. This would be not just on electronic media, but also over the internet and other delivery devices. The move would bring Australia up to the restrictions currently in place in the …
PricewaterhouseCoopers the huge accounting, legal and consulting conglomerate who was already reeling from multiple Government confidentiality breaches, suffered another setback with a massive cybersecurity breach. The firm, who specialises in cyber security consulting, was itself the target of Russian-linked criminal group CLOP – which broke into their file transfer system MOVEit . Once there, they …