A new rapid test for hepatitis C will soon be rolled out at drug treatment clinics, prisons and needle exchange services nationwide.

Efforts are being made to stop a planned transport strike this week.

Former attorney-general Christian Porter has resigned and saved the Coalition from a difficult byelection.

Questions are being asked about the requirements of South Australia’s specialist workers’ quarantine system.

Dozens of charges have been levelled at a mining company after the death of a superintendent.

Tech experts say Australia is heading for a patchwork vaccine passport system that may not meet international standards.

The Australian Institute of Health and Welfare (AIHW) has released a new report into the broad health effects of COVID-19 on Australians so far.

Experts say sepsis costs Australia billions of dollars a year.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ditched the UK’s COVID-19 vaccine passport plan just days after it was announced.

CSIRO experts will soon compete in what is effectively the robot Olympics.

The Queensland Government’s water utility has won an appeal against a 2011 flood damages ruling.

The owners of Port Pirie's lead smelter have been fined $35,000 for leaking 700 litres of “toxic” sulphuric acid into waterways.

The Department of Defence has been fined $1 million over a live-fire fatality.

Scott Morrison has delivered a series of hollow platitudes in his keynote address to the National Summit on Women’s Safety.

SafeWork NSW is cracking down on height-based risks on construction sites.

A NSW engineer is being investigated over apartment “structural issues” in a first for the state.

An internal report has criticised the Defence department for its scrapping of multi-billion-dollar Israeli technology.

The federal health department is taking over COVIDSafe app duties.

Australia’s major population centres have given hints of what the future “vaccine economy” will look like.

Some of the world’s biggest electricity companies have warned that border closures could lead to blackouts.

Labour hire firms say thousands of contracted public servants will not be paid for time lost to COVID-19 vaccinations or isolation.

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