Jun
16
2025
Employers should consider taking the time to talk person to person with ex-service people, says former Lance Bombardier Peter Sanderson. Ex-service people understand how to work in teams; they know how to give and follow orders; and they understand the importance of task completion, he says. Importantly, ex-service people might not even know how their …read more
Jun
15
2025
Pharmacists now have to tread a fine line with parents who seek health advice on social media. Online parenting groups can foster a distrust of the health profession and so-called Big Pharma, and pharmacists have to take care to gently persuade parents to consider the benefits of evidence-based medicine. Reduced fact-checking and minimal content moderation …read more
Jun
11
2025
Angela Gadaev arrived in Australia in 1991 with one suitcase and one dollar. Born in Belarus, 100 kilometres from Chernobyl, she had degrees in mathematics and computer science from Francisk Skorina Gomel State University in her home country, a passion for technology and the performing arts, and not much English. She knew, though, she wanted …read more
Jun
11
2025
Christelle Young has been the managing director of boutique tea brand T2 Tea for about a year and she has already overhauled the management structure, closed several under-performing retail stores and cut redundant items from the product line. With 62 retail outlets across Australia, New Zealand and Singapore, T2 Tea sells a variety of specialist …read more
Jun
6
2025
Western Sydney is Australia’s epicentre of growth and opportunity with a burgeoning population of 2.7 million people and a booming demand for higher education, says Western Sydney University (WSU) vice-chancellor Professor George Williams. Two-thirds of the Western Sydney University’s students are the first in their families to have taken the plunge into higher education. “We …read more
Jun
6
2025
Until recently, ten or twelve babies born in the ACT and NSW died of a disease known as spinal muscular atrophy before they reached their second birthdays. Children’s Medical Research Institute director Professor Roger Reddel says children born with spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) were often healthy for a while and then began to regress. “Even if …read more
Jun
6
2025
Westmead Health Precinct is Australia’s largest health and biomedical research precinct and a thriving hub of scientific collaboration and professional cross-fertilisation in Western Sydney – with relationships criss-crossing between four hospitals, two universities, two medical research institutes, a number of allied health centres, and NSW’s largest pathology service. Home to breakthrough research projects in genetics, …read more
Jun
3
2025
Billed as Australia’s first-of-its-kind generative AI-powered pet care assistant, the PetAI chatbot will answer client questions about a range of pets including cats, dogs, reptiles, birds, chickens, small animals, and fish. Developed by giant pet-care retailer Petbarn in collaboration with Microsoft and Insight Enterprises, PetAI has built-in guardrails and refers more esoteric or difficult questions …read more
Jun
3
2025
If a high-school student in NSW asked the education department’s new generative AI tool to write an essay on Shakespeare’s use of comedy, it would respond like a teacher and encourage the student to do the thinking. “Let’s work through that problem,” the tool might say, “who are the characters, what are the themes, how …read more
Apr
15
2025
Pharmacists know it happens. Patients give prescribed medications to other people, usually people they know well: a sister about to go overseas – “have a few of my sleeping pills”; a friend who has run out of hypertension medication – “here, have a few of mine”; even a colleague who has a nasty infection – …read more