NSW Health last week announced an investigation was underway into the deaths of 10 elderly people at Endeavour Nursing Home in Springwood, in the Blue Mountains west of Sydney.
It is believed some of the deaths could to be linked to two gastroenteritis outbreaks in June which struck more than 80 residents of the home.
Ageing Minister [...]
Wizard Home Loans is to be offered for sale with an announcement expected this week, The Australian reports.
GE Money, which owns the mortgage lender, has opted for the sale to stave off a bid by Wizard founder and current chairman, Mark Bouris, who is seeking to take back control of the company.
Mr Bouris was believed [...]
Exposure to sunlight stop children from becoming near-sighted. Researchers have found that the time children spend outdoors is a critical factor.
A comparison of children of Chinese origin living in Singapore and Sydney, Australia, showed that the rate of myopia in Singaporean children is 10 times higher. But the children in Sydney spent significantly more time [...]
Historically, gaps between researchers and producers, as well as lack of capacity to transform data into relevant decisions, have all contributed to data languishing on hard drives rather than being used to inform growing decisions.
Using software available online, researchers from the Australian Centre for Precision Agriculture (ACPA) at the University of Sydney have developed a [...]
Until now, arguments and debate about the ecological impacts of dog-walking have remained subjective and unresolved because experimental evidence has been lacking.
But the first clear evidence that birds perceive dogs as predators and avoid dog-walking areas was recently published in Biology Letters, reporting research by UNSW biologist Peter Banks.
We found in field studies that dog-walking [...]
Military commander and self-appointed Prime Minister Voreqe Bainimarama yesterday declared martial law by re-imposing the Public Emergency Regulations.
He said he did this because of comments made by the man he deposed, Laisenia Qarase, who returned to the capital Suva on Saturday. The military are hinting they will arrest Qarase and return him to his home [...]
New Zealand is a small western democracy, located in the far south of the South Pacific. In strategic terms it is, as former Prime Minister David Lange once quipped, a dagger pointed at the heart of Antarctica.
Our nearest neighbours are close to 1200 miles away, or as far away as Moscow from London. Our [...]
Mark Bissell, the chairman, president and CEO of Bissell Inc, has outlined a new path for the floorcare brand in his first visit to the Australia during an exclusive interview conducted earlier today.
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