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Australia’s Underwater Cultural Heritage
When you think about cultural heritage, the first thing that may come to mind is artefacts lost in sand and time or places with a past life, where people walked and gathered hundreds maybe thousands of years ago. What you may not know is that cultural heritage extends...
Safety and Emergency Apps: for work and at home
In our modern world, smart device apps are becoming a useful tool for our personal safety. There are a number of emergency apps available for smartphones and wearable devices that can be activated in life-threatening situations. We are able to use apps connect with...
Stakeholder Engagement: The things to remember
Stakeholder engagement is an important component of social responsibility and provides an opportunity to promote robust relationships with interested parties who may be impacted or may influence and affect the decisions of an organisation. These individuals, groups or...
Where has all the rain Gone?
It doesn't take a weather enthusiast to recognise the dry Australian climate. If you cast your mind back over the last 12 months, it's hard not to recall the sweltering summer days dominating the year and harder to remember a period of frequent rain. In...
The rare Gilbert’s Potoroo, its expensive taste and conservation efforts
The world’s rarest marsupial has expensive taste and was once considered extinct for a century. The Gilbert’s Potoroo (Potorous gilbertii) is a small elusive rat-kangaroo (Potoroidae) that was named after the English naturalist John Gilbert, who was the first to...
Planning for an Emergency in the Work Place
According to WorkSafe WA, on average, approximately two Western Australian employees are injured seriously enough every hour to require one or more shifts off work. What is even more shocking is that a work-related fatality occurs every 22 days in WA (Department of...
Marine Heatwaves – The Ningaloo Niño Event
Introduction Many of us are familiar with atmospheric heatwaves that often occur during the summer months; a period of unusually high temperatures that persists for three or more days. Just as we experience heatwaves on land, the ocean is susceptible to an extreme...
Environmental Matters for 2019 – The Year in Review
Our Earth and the environment had been one of the most talked-about topics of 2019 with much of the environmental impacts being the focus of these discussions. Early last year, thousands of fires burned over 7,200 square miles of the Brazilian Amazon rainforest, home...
Get the Green Light for 2020
New Year’s Eve is fast approaching, which will mark the end of 2019 and gives us all a fresh year to start on our new resolutions, or recycle last years if you didn’t quite get to them all. But other than recycling your resolutions, what else could you do to celebrate...
Meet the Australian Spider with a thing for Christmas – The Christmas Spider – Austracantha minax
Austracantha minax is commonly known as the Jewel spider or the Christmas spider. Other common names for the species include "six-spined spiders" and "spiny spiders" in reference to the spine-like projections on their abdomens, that makes them easy to identify...