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Identifying modern slavery: An analysis of Australia’s largest companies. The Monash Centre for Financial Studies has ranked the modern slavery statements of the 100 largest listed companies on the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX). Several major
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New ocean temperature data help scientists make their hot predictions. A new way of measuring ocean temperatures helps scientists determine likely scenarios of global warming. We’ve heard that rising temperatures will lead to rising sea
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A spoonful of sugar opens a path to longer lasting lithium sulfur batteries. Simply by adding sugar, researchers from the Monash Energy Institute have created a longer-lasting, lighter, more sustainable rival to the lithium-ion batteries
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Galaxies pollute the environment they exist in, researchers have found. A team of astronomers led by Alex Cameron and Deanne Fisher from the ARC Centre of Excellence for All Sky Astrophysics in 3 Dimensions (ASTRO
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How common is our Solar System? Less common than we might think. A significant fraction of planetary systems around Sun-like stars have had a very dynamic past, culminating with the fall of planets into the
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Tech extracts twice the power from ocean waves. Researchers have developed prototype technology that can double the power harvested from ocean waves, in an advance that could finally make wave energy a viable renewable alternative.
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Engineers make critical advance in quantum computer design. A decades-old problem about how to reliably control millions of qubits in a silicon quantum computer chip has now been solved. Controlling qubits via magnetic pulse from
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A University of NSW (UNSW), Australia, scientist has revealed that an ancient clay tablet could be the oldest and most complete example of applied geometry. The surveyor’s field plan from the Old Babylon period shows
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Directed by Ken Hannam, Sunday Too Far Away follows a group of hard-working, hard-drinking sheep shearers in the shadow of the 1956 shearers’ strike. Foley (played by Jack Thompson) arrives at a new sheep station
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Privatising assets without allowing for competition or regulation creates private monopolies that raise prices, reduce efficiency and harm the economy, ACCC Chair Rod Sims said in a speech on Thursday. Speaking at the 2021 ACCC/AER
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