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- Energy
- 04/12/2025
- 14:08
Victorian energy retailers surrender over 6.5 million certificates to meet 2024 energy efficiency obligations
Victorian energy retailers have surrendered over 6.5 million energy efficiency certificates to meet 2024 energy efficiency obligations. The certificates are valued at over $540 million.* The Victorian Energy Upgrade (VEU) program is an energy efficiency program, designed to help Victorian households and businesses cut their energy bills and lower greenhouse gas emissions. Accredited businesses undertake energy efficiency upgrades that entitle them to create energy efficiency certificates, which they can then sell. Victorian energy retailers must acquire and surrender these certificates to meet energy efficiency obligations. Energy retailers delivered 99 per cent of the total certificate surrenders required across all energy…
- CharitiesAidWelfare
- 04/12/2025
- 13:29
A Greener Christmas: Sustainable gifts that won’t end up in landfill
A Greener ChristmasSustainable gifts that won’t end up in landfill This Christmas, WaterAid Australia is encouraging you to rethink traditional gift-giving and choose a…
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- General News, Immigration
- 04/12/2025
- 13:03
Public Works Committee to visit Yongah Hill Immigration Detention Centre and question Home Affairs Officials
TheParliamentary Standing Committee on Public Works(the Committee) will conduct a site inspection at Yongah Hill Immigration Detention Centre and shortly after question officials from the Department of Home Affairs about proposed works at the site. The proposed works at the site will redevelop the Hawk Compoundwithin the detention centre to meet the needs of Australia’s Immigration Detention Network, address safety and security risks, and update the existing facilities to meet National Construction Code requirements. The works will see the removal of existing buildings and infrastructure and the construction of new accommodation for 47 detainees and associated security infrastructure. The proposed…
- Building Construction, Environment
- 04/12/2025
- 12:32
Where rubber meets the road: Old tyres are key to building tougher roads
Almost half of the Northern Territory’s worn-out tyres end up in landfills – with the rest exported interstate for recycling – but a study…
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- Art, Music
- 04/12/2025
- 12:22
Sound Fair? New research provides vital snapshot of Australia’s art music commissioning landscape
Music Australia has today released a new report examining the commissioning environment faced by Australian creators of art music, providing the sector’s first comprehensive snapshot in more than a decade. Sound Fair? An analysis of art music commissioning in Australia takes a comprehensive look at commissioning practices across the art music sector, which encompasses contemporary classical, jazz, improvised and experimental music, and sound art. The research was undertaken by composer and researcher Cameron Lam in partnership with Creative Australia and Music Australia. It draws on survey responses from 79 music creators and 32 commissioning organisations, covering 195 individual commissions across…
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- Government VIC, Medical Health Aged Care
- 04/12/2025
- 12:21
Closing VicHealth is backward and will make more people sick
The Public Health Association has today launched the Save VicHealth campaign after the VIC Government announced it will effectively shut the doors of the world’s first health promotion foundation, VicHealth. Closing VicHealth will prove a disaster for the health of the people of Victoria and must be reversed, the country’s peak body for public health says. The independence of the agency that has been vital in preventing chronic disease, and was structurally separated from constant pressures of a Department of Health that has been struggling and in atrophy since the COVID pandemic, almost guarantees that prevention efforts will all but…
- Seniors Interest
- 04/12/2025
- 12:05
SUPPORT AT HOME APPROACH HAVING UNACCEPTABLE IMPACTS ON OLDER PEOPLE: GOVERNMENT MUST ACT NOW
Thursday, 4 December 2025 Older people are waiting up to 17 weeks to receive their full Support at Home program entitlements, despite long wait times for assessment and repeated promises by the Government that processing times and service access would improve. Evidence provided by Department of Health, Disability and Ageing officials at Senate Estimates has revealed a litany of challenges with the sector, including that 93 per cent of Support at Home packages released since the program’s commencement in November have been 'interim packages', offering older people only 60 per cent of the services they have been assessed as needing.…
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- Sport Recreation, Youth
- 04/12/2025
- 11:49
New research shows councils hold the key to ending abuse in kids’ sport
New research from Monash University raises questions about the effectiveness of current approaches to stopping abuse and discrimination in children’s sport, and highlights how local councils could play a pivotal role in protecting children from harm. The groundbreaking research will be presented at the Sport Management Association of Australia and New Zealand today (Thursday 4 December).The research highlights that discrimination, bullying and sexual abuse are far more common in youth sport than many realise. A recent International Olympic Committee consensus statement found that between 44 per cent and 86 per cent of children experience interpersonal violence in sport environments, including…
- Oil Mining Resources
- 04/12/2025
- 11:34
Chariot Resources (ASX: CC9) High-Grade Assays at Fonlo and Iganna of up to 5.96% Li2O
HIGHLIGHTS: • Rock chip assay results demonstrate the potential for high-grade lithium-bearing pegmatites at the Fonlo and Iganna lithium projects (results ranging from 2.66% to 5.96% Li₂O). • Pending confirmation through a forthcoming mineralogical analysis, the lithium minerals identified are believed to be spodumene at Fonlo and spodumene and lepidolite at Iganna. • Tantalum values of up to 0.15% Ta2O5 indicate a potential for significant by-product revenues. • Elevated cesium values indicate further potential for by-product revenues (one sample contains >2.5% Cs which is above the detection limit of the assay process employed and is, accordingly, being re-assayed). • The…
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