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Hospital and teaching labour 'shortage' linked to low pay, says union report

The prevailing public perception is that everything people with disability do is a challenge. Sometimes, that is true. In those times, we may ask or say “yes” to a kind and respectful offer of assistance. Other times, and more often than not, we are simply navigating daily life when a…

Where better to plan strategies for dealing with the new climate normal than the edge of Australia’s Simpson Desert?

A Griffith University lecturer says banning mobile phones in schools hinders a student's ability to prepare themselves for the real world.

Griffith University graduate, Jeawon Kim, works at the United Nations Climate Technology Center and Network in South Korea.

Technology has been changing sport for more than a century. What athletes wear, the way they prepare, how matches are officiated and how spectators interact with their teams and favourite players has been continually altered by advances, from the first photo-finishes in horse racing (invented in 1948 to stop cheating…

Combining several technologies to create a digital replica of an athlete’s body has made a giant leap forward in understanding what goes on.

As Queensland cracks down on young offenders, experts fear ill-informed public sentiment is influencing policy

Alice and Scott* have been running their two-storey pub-turned-backpacker hostel in Queensland’s Wide Bay region, north of Brisbane, for more a decade. Over the years they’ve provided accommodation for thousands of backpackers and itinerant workers who come to the region for fruit-picking jobs.

Group A streptococci, also known as “strep A”, were the first organisms ever identified to be the cause of a disease.

The former Australian of the Year is probably best known as the scientist who led the world's first human trial using transplanted nasal cells into the spinal cords of three patients with paraplegia.