News

Job Loss Figures Just Hot Air

30 November 1997

THE loss of 90,000 jobs sounds like a scary prospect. And it would be, if only it were true. Fortunately, the figure is nonsense. But Prime Minister John Howard keeps throwing the 90,000 figure around as justification for Australia's refusal to play ball at the international conference on global .. read full story

Uni Research Leads In New Electric Wave

17 November 1997

A group of Wollongong University researchers is in the midst of an "electrical revolution" as its work on superconductors becomes closer to commercial reality. Superconductors, compounds which bring a cleaner and less wasteful electricity system, promise to change the electrical wo.. read full story

News Archive

2009

2008

2007

2006

2005

2004

2003

2002

2001

2000

1999

1998

1997

1996

1995