Next Friday, October 16, is National Anaesthesia Day – a promotion by the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (ANZCA) that marks the anniversary of the day in 1846 when ether anaesthetic was first demonstrated publicly in Boston. With ...
To mark Anti-Poverty Week 2015, the Australian Network on Disability (AND) and People with Disability Australia (PWDA) are calling on employers to recognise the skills, talents and contributions that people with disability can and do bring to the Australian ...
Universities ready to help New Zealand’s emerging export companies Universities want to play a bigger role in helping emerging New Zealand export companies break into international markets. University Vice-Chancellors and representatives from ...
News.com.au reports: IMAGINE a world where you are given a “citizen rating” based on your lifestyle, shopping habits, social behaviour and morals. China is moving quickly towards just such a system, in a Big Brother-style plan that will see everyone given a grade between 350 and 950. If you buy nappies or recycle, you get […]
9 OCTOBER 2015 POWER OUTAGE A HUGE QUESTION MARK OVER INFRASTRUCTURAL INVESTMENT Today’s massive Northland power outage raises serious questions as to whether Northland has had its share of infrastructure investment. “The economic cost of the failure ...
Meningococcal disease is a bacterial infection that causes two very serious illnesses: meningitis (an infection of the membranes that cover the brain) and septicaemia (blood poisoning).