Australia’s national science agency has discovered that SARS-Cov-2, the virus responsible for COVID-19, can survive for up to 28 days on common surfaces including banknotes, mobile phone screens and stainless steel. CSIRO found the virus was “extremely robust,” surviving on smooth surfaces, when kept at 20C, which is about room temperature, and in the dark....
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Coates Hire named long-term partner for Sydney Water
Coates Hire, Australia’s leading hiring solutions company, was awarded a three-year Shared Purchasing dry hire contract (with two one-year extension options) in January 2020 with Sydney Water, Australia’s largest water utility. The Shared Purchasing (SP) contract is the first signed through Sydney Water’s new Partnering for Success (P4S) Procurement strategy and ensures Coates Hire will...
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Victoria benefits from Providence’s plans to a sustainable power future
Victoria is the latest state to benefit from an ambitious solar farm roll-out by Providence Asset Group and follows last month’s announcement of plans for 28 solar farms across NSW, incorporating ground-breaking hydrogen storage technology that will be a first for Australian solar projects. A leading Australian Environmental, Social and Governance investor in renewable and...
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Deakin University students migrate to the Cloud with the Brightspace Platform
Australia’s top public university for overall student experience, Deakin University, has successfully transitioned its 60,000-plus student body to online learning, and migrated its Brightspace learning management system (LMS) to the cloud. In March, as COVID-19 shut down its four physical campuses, Deakin rapidly transitioned its entire cohort of students and staff to its digital campus,...
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Slack’s performance issues are making remote work difficult Monday
Slack had a case of the Mondays. The company said it was having performance issues much of the day on Monday — potentially causing trouble for the many companies that rely on the workplace communication tool to keep remote teams running. The company noted around 10 am ET that some users might be experiencing slowness...
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Alec Baldwin defends playing Trump on ‘SNL’ amid president’s COVID-19 hospitalization
Alec Baldwin is responding to critics who don’t think he should have played Donald Trump on Saturday Night Live amid the president’s COVID-19 hospitalization. The actor took to Instagram on Sunday to discuss his appearance on the NBC sketch show’s season premiere. He spoke about the “considerable criticism” he received, “beyond some people sick of...
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West Coast set to show premiership player the door
Two-time flag winner Lewis Jetta could be forced out the door at West Coast while two of his premiership teammates will decide their own fate. Eagles coach Adam Simpson said after his side were upset by Collingwood and bundled out of the AFL finals last Saturday. Jetta, 31, fell out of favour with the match...
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New plans for learner drivers unveiled for Victoria
Learner drivers in Victoria will be allowed to take their permit test online from early next year under new state government changes. Driving lessons and practicing has not been allowed during Melbourne’s hard coronavirus lockdown. Under a new $26.8 million package, a new computer-based system will allow people to log on from home for their...
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Doctors worry Trump could be ‘overtreated’ for coronavirus because he’s a VIP
President Donald Trump’s doctors are using almost every drug in the Covid-19 arsenal to treat him, worrying some physicians that they might be going overboard because he is a VIP. Trump’s team of doctors at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center said over the weekend that the president has taken Gilead’s antiviral drug remdesivir, Regeneron’s...
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Singapore Prime Minister files defamation suit against blogger
Singapore’s prime minister arrived at court on Tuesday for a case in which he is suing a blogger for sharing an online article linking him to Malaysia’s 1MBD state fund money-laundering scandal. As the world’s best-paid political leader and the head of a government that has pledged zero tolerance on corruption, Lee Hsien Loong, 68,...