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- Finance Investment, Oil Mining Resources
- 09/12/2024
- 11:25
Moab Minerals (ASX:MOM) Completes Validation Drilling at Manyoni Uranium Project
Perth, Australia – Moab Minerals is pleased to announce the successful completion of its validation drilling program at the Manyoni Uranium Project in Tanzania. This milestone sets the stage for further exploration and the development targeting a maiden JORC (2012) Mineral Resource Estimate (MRE) in 2025. Key Highlights: Completion of Validation Drilling 110 PQTT core holes totaling 1,608m drilled. Downhole gamma logging for radiometric equivalent U3O8 (eU3O8) completed. First batch of 51 core samples submitted to an ISO-certified laboratory in South Africa; results expected late December 2024 or early January 2025. Remaining samples being prepared for shipment. Advancing Resource Estimation…
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- Energy, Environment
- 09/12/2024
- 11:19
Sense and Landis+Gyr partner to support flexible energy transition in Australia and New Zealand markets
New partnership to deliver an integrated intelligent grid edge solution with proven real-time energy management capabilities for utilities and consumers Sense, a leader in…
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- Energy, Political
- 09/12/2024
- 11:11
Talent alert: Lithgow locals speak out on nuclear risks as political inquiry comes to town
Monday December 9 A political hearing in Lithgow next week will hear from locals on their opposition to building nuclear reactors in the region. The federal Parliament’s select committee on nuclear energy is looking into a scheme from the Coalition to build nuclear reactors at sites around the country, including in Lithgow. Members of the community are speaking out against the scheme, saying that they want investment in safe and reliable renewable power, not risky nuclear reactors in the region. They are concerned about the risks of having a nuclear reactor in community, including: Water supply and usage Health, wellbeing…
- Medical Health Aged Care
- 09/12/2024
- 10:55
Monash Expert: Australia’s growing arthritis burden
The number of people living with arthritis in Australia is projected to increase by a third by 2040, suggests a modelling study, published in The Lancet Rheumatology. The model projects about 5.4 million Australians will have arthritis in 2040, 1.3 million (31 per cent) more than the estimated number of cases for 2025. Annual health system spending on osteoarthritis – the most common type of arthritis, and rheumatoid arthritis, the most common type of inflammatory arthritis – is forecast to exceed AUD $11.9 billion by 2040, if current spending levels continue, estimated at AUD $2,100 per person with osteoarthritis and…
- Community
- 09/12/2024
- 10:32
New Consent Matters project boosts educator confidence in teaching Victoria’s at-risk youth about sexual consent
The Consent Matters pilot project led by Sexual Health Victoria and Women’s Health in the South East is helping thousands of youths outside the mainstream education system understand affirmative consent, as highlighted by an evaluation report released today. The initiative has seen over 100 ‘coalface’ youth and community workers spanning three suburban and regional municipalities undertake comprehensive training about landmark affirmative consent laws introduced in 2023. The project is funded as part of the Victorian Government’s Supporting Young People to Understand Affirmative Consent program. The online and interactive workshop training conducted between August 2023 and March 2024 focused on key…
- Industrial Relations, Oil Mining Resources
- 09/12/2024
- 10:29
$18k pay rises on the way in region’s first Same Job Same Pay order at Appin mine
Workers at Appin mine are celebrating an early Christmas present after the Fair Work Commission handed down the first Same Job Same Pay order in the Illawarra coal industry. The successful Same Job Same Pay or ‘regulated labour hire arrangement’ order which comes into effect today covers around 250 labour hire PIMS workers, with pay rises estimated at over $4 million annually. In general, PIMSworkers are paid around$15,000 to $20,000less than employees atAppin mine performing the same work under the site Enterprise Agreement. The order sets a ‘protected rate of pay’ in line with EA rates. MEU South Western District…
- Entertainment, Music
- 09/12/2024
- 10:10
Koala ambassador Andy Penkow gets ready to rock in Moree
6 December 2024 [Moree, NSW] – Australian country music star and Australian Koala Foundation (AKF) ambassador Andy Penkow is set to light up northern…
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- CharitiesAidWelfare, Government NSW
- 09/12/2024
- 10:02
Rough sleeping in NSW surges amidst housing crisis
Rough sleeping in New South Wales has surged by 51% in the past four years amid historically low rental vacancy rates, according to The Australian Homelessness Monitor 2024 released today. The report produced by the University of New South Wales and the University of Queensland, supported by Homelessness Australia, found there were 2,041 rough sleepers counted in NSW in 2024, up from 1,353 in 2020. All of the increase was in regional NSW, with the number of rough sleepers counted in Sydney slightly decreasing from 683 to 574 over the four years The increase in NSW far outpaces the national…
- Food Beverages, Travel Tourism
- 09/12/2024
- 10:00
Don’t miss out on gourmet coffee just because you’re away from home
If you’re going camping this holiday season – don’t miss out on your coffee! Asquith, NSW: Coffee is being touted as the drink of…
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