Oct
22
2025
The huge job of decommissioning and plugging seven subsea oil wells 50 kilometres off the coast of Victoria entailed months of offshore work and years of careful planning. The big seas and strong winds of the Basker, Manta and Gummy (BMG) fields, with wells located at ocean depths of between 200 and 270 metres, made …read more
Sep
16
2024
Executive education gives working adults the additional skills and knowledge they need throughout their working lives, says the University of NSW’s inaugural dean of lifelong learning, Professor Nick Wailes. “We all need to be thinking about what we’re going to learn next,” he says. “It’s not a terminal journey. You don’t get to an end-point. It’s something …read more
Aug
17
2022
Ferdinand Marcos Jnr, affectionately known as Bongbong, is treading carefully. Elected president of the Philippines in a landslide victory in May, the son of the late dictator and notorious kleptocrat Ferdinand Marcos is facing the nation’s Sandiganbayan graft court in a case concerning the giant stash of assets stolen by his father. Earlier this month, Marcos Jnr’s …read more