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At a glance In the past, the vaccines market has made up a small portion of the trillion-dollar global pharmaceutical industry due to lower profit margins. The high costs and complexity of large-scale vaccine manufacturing are the reasons for market dominance by four major players who account for about 85 per cent of the market. The race to develop an effective COVID-19 vaccine has driven increased research collaboration, and is set to change the industry significantly in the future. Prefer to ...

Last week, Molly Segal wrote about John Lyons wrote, "Carbon capture and storage is like mopping the floor while the tap is still running." Mark Shulist wrote, "Thanks for the carbon capture article. Too many people think that science will save us from our folly. Planting trees and legislating green roofs on all buildings (including schools) would be better than the industrial carbon capture deception." Lil MacPherson wrote, "There is now a new understanding from soil science all over the worl...

Cancels Canadian Tar Sands Pipeline Keystone XL Jan 22 2021 (IPS) - I wasn’t going to stop for the school bus stuck in the mud outside of Fort McMurray, Alberta in the heart of the Canada’s tar sands industry but my kids insisted. It had been raining most of the week and the grassy field was soaked and slick. We stopped and got out and looked at the 12,000 kilogram bus uselessly spinning its wheels, digging deeper into the mud. Someone got the driver to stop, essentially saying you’re m...

Superannuation cannot rise without stalling wage growth, RBA documents reveal Posted MonMonday 18 Superannuation will rise to 10 per cent on July 1. ( Print text only Cancel Australias superannuation rate is legislated to rise but it could cost workers an increase in wages. Key points: Superannuation is legislated to increase to 10 per cent on July 1 FOI documents from inside the Reserve Bank of Australia show it believes a rise in superannuation will cost wages The view is based on the work o...

Nevetheless, the office is still a thing. While four out of 10 of us might have worked from home during lockdown last April, 83 per cent of us had returned to working outside the home by Level 1, according to Statistics NZ. The fact is, most of us still need that contact with other people. Which is why even though a rising number of firms are dismantling or shrinking their central city offices, they are encouraging people to come in intermittently or renting out shared spaces. Supplied Rising...

While our expectations took a battering in 2020, stoicism arms us with the resilience to continue to pursue our goals. By Johanna Leggatt In the past year of adapting to a global pandemic, of lives played out on Zoom and a mass retreat to our homes, many of us had to draw on inner wells of resilience. We had to be flexible, resourceful, patient. Above all, we have been stoic. Industry professor and director of development with Adelaide University’s Faculty of Professions and B...

The analysis by the institute’s Centre for Future Work says the labour market experienced unprecedented volatility in 2020 as a result of the pandemic and Australia’s first recession in nearly three decades. The early months of the pandemic “highlighted stark fissures in Australia’s labour market”, with casual workers losing employment eight times faster than those in permanent jobs. The report points to an “encouraging” rebound in employment after May – replacing over 80% of th...

Share on Twitter The coronavirus pandemic highlighted "stark fissures" in Australias labour market, a domestic think tank says. Employment declined faster and more deeply than in any previous economic downturn, Dan Nahum and Dr Jim Stanford said in a paper for The Australia Institute, released on Wednesday. Workers at a restaurant in Brisbane. AAP Employment rebounded strongly after May, with 80 per cent of jobs lost in the initial downturn now replaced. But the employment and incom...

While it’s impolite to mention ABS data when talking about the fossil fuel industry, the heresy isn’t in quoting the facts, but providing the context. Try saying on radio that coal mining employs less than 1% of the population or that McDonalds employs more people. If you really want to invite the wrath of the “sensible centre” just point out that the health and social services sector employs more than 10 times as many people as the combined fossil fuel industries. Anyone pr...

Deepest cuts: what will university students face next year? We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Deepest cuts: what will university students face next year? Save Normal text size Advertisement The year 12 kids are all right. They survived being yanked in and out of school during COVID-19, denied friends and far-too-close to parents. They mostly survived online learning and bomb threats to some schools during HSC exams and many of them also sur...