Federal Attorney-General Christian Porter has called for submissions to the long-awaited review of the federal Privacy Act 1988. This is the first wide-ranging review of privacy laws since the Australian Law Reform Commission produced a…
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© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The sun sets behind a pump-jack outside Saint-Fiacre By Aaron Sheldrick and Koustav Samanta TOKYO/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Oil prices climbed over 1% on Wednesday, after an industry report showed U.S. crude…
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The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea Almost a quarter of employees faced with the choice of two employer-sponsored health care plans picked the one that left them…
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A fossil discovery in New Zealand has revealed a new species of monk seal that once called Australasia home. We introduce the three million-year-old seal, Eomonachus belegaerensis, in a paper published today in the Proceedings…
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© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan Investing.com – Gold clawed back some losses after Monday’s epic shakedown, as tamped down mood for risk on Wall Street helped the yellow metal find shelter at under $1,900 an…
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The day Joe Biden becomes president, he can start taking actions that can help slow climate change. The question is whether he can match the magnitude of the challenge. If his administration focuses only on…
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Genetic engineering has already cemented itself as an invaluable tool for studying gene functions in organisms. Our new study, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, now demonstrates how gene editing can…
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© Reuters. U.N. Climate Change Conference (COP25) in Madrid By Susanna Twidale London (Reuters) – Global voluntary carbon credit markets must grow 15 fold by 2030 to enable companies and organisations to meet goals set…
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It was the Bank of Japan which first embarked on the experiment known as quantitative easing, or QE, in order to try and stimulate the Japanese economy out of its period of very low growth…
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© Reuters. By Barani Krishnan Investing.com – Oil prices jumped 9% for their biggest one-day gain in six months Monday as progress in Covid-19 vaccine trials boosted hopes of economic recovery. President-Elect Joe Biden, however,…
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