End-of-year work functions are a perennial risk for employers; unmanaged intoxication and revelry can quickly escalate into sexual-harassment claims, personal injury claims, unfair-dismissal disputes ...

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Australia has fallen short of its international fuel reserve obligations for the best part of a decade. As a member of the International Energy Agency, it is required to have 90 days worth of key ...

Sussan Ley will sound the alarm on Australia’s low fuel reserves in a speech outlining her national security priorities, warning the “situation is dire”. Australia has fallen short of its ...

The Australian government is warning about ongoing cyberattacks against unpatched Cisco IOS XE devices in the country to infect routers with the BadCandy webshell. The vulnerability exploited in these ...

Decades of research has viewed DNA as a sequence-based instruction manual; yet every cell in the body shares the same genes – so where is the language that writes the memory of cell identities?

Sociologist Talcott Parsons observed that social institutions have two functions: the written “manifest” function and the unwritten “latent” function. In many cases, the latent function is as ...

Enterprise AI and software company DevRev has announced the launch of Computer, a conversational AI product designed to serve as an expansive interface for enterprise employees that gives them access ...

For years, I never used the extra buttons on the side of my mouse, and mostly just viewed them as a nuisance. Too often I’d click them by accident and trigger some unwanted action, like navigating ...

More than a third of the population of Tuvalu has applied to move to Australia, under a landmark visa scheme designed to help people escape rising sea levels. The island nation – roughly halfway ...

More than a century on from being spotted and salvaged by sponge divers in the Mediterranean Sea, the Antikythera mechanism continues to excite academic research and the public imagination. Found in a ...

You’re going to be hearing a lot from the two biggest parties in Australian politics over the next few weeks. So, as the campaign ramps up, political reporter Claudia Long is getting back to basics ...