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Can MRI be for psychiatry what the angiogram is for cardiology?

Jane Nicholls
August 28, 2017
Intricate images of our innards from MR machines have been amazing us for decades. Get set to be wonderstruck once more: specialised magnetic-resonance imaging is creating detail so fine that the function of fibres of the white matter of brains can be studied, a breakthrough that scientists hope will help revolutionise psychiatric diagnosis and treatment.
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How to stand out from the medical-imaging crowd

Natalie Filatoff
August 24, 2017
Casey Lewis had always wanted to be a sonographer. Two things stood in her way: physics and a rarely offered, highly valued ultrasound traineeship. Already a qualified radiographer with I-MED Radiology Network, she scoped the professional-development opportunities provided by her employer and identified 45 stepping stones to achieving her ultimate, hotly contested goal.
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Australia’s biggest wind farm comes to the Sunshine State

Jane Nicholls
August 17, 2017
By 2019, 123 turbines will be spinning 453MW of energy at Coopers Gap Wind Farm, between Kingaroy and Dalby in Queensland. The announcement on August 17 of Australia’s biggest wind farm is the result of creative collaboration and supple engineering solutions.
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A container of power for Arnhem Land

Jane Nicholls
August 09, 2017
The Yolngu people opened the 19th Garma Festival with a stirring traditional ceremony—bodies painted, clapsticks beating, feet stamping, calls echoing native animals and songlines passed down over tens of thousands of years. The four-day event on Gumatj land in north-east Arnhem Land—the most important gathering of the year for Indigenous Australia—is a time for talking and listening, as well as dance, music and stories from the oldest continuous culture on earth.
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Wind in the Willogoleches

Natalie Filatoff
August 07, 2017
An incredible wind resource and progressive state-government policies sowed the seeds of South Australia’s renewable-energy bonanza. Now GE’s latest wind turbine, a new wind farm and a fresh take on a power partnership are redrawing the lines of productivity for renewable energy on the edge of the Flinders Ranges.
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SA flicks a switch for back-up generation

Natalie Filatoff
August 02, 2017
As part of a plan that calls on a modern, flexible mix of energy sources to reliably power the State, the South Australian Government has announced it will purchase nine new dual-fuel GE aeroderivative TM2500 turbine gen-sets through GE’s fast power alliance partner APR Energy to provide crucial back-up to its grid in time for summer.
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Hands of rescue to save lives in PNG

July 27, 2017
Australian doctor Barry Kirby runs Hands of Rescue, a not-for-profit medical service in Alotau, in the Milne Bay province on the south-eastern tip of Papua New Guinea. In January this year, GE’s PNG Country Leader, Peter Loko, donated a Vscan Dual Probe portable ultrasound to Dr Kirby. Six months later, he emailed in this story about how he’s using it.
Last Thursday I flew to Sehulea health centre through the only hole in the sky for months.
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Flying in the jet stream of the RAAF’s first female pilots

Natalie Filatoff
July 25, 2017
At age 16 Deborah Hicks was the youngest female pilot in Australia to fly solo. By the time she finished high school she had decided on a career in medicine when in 1987 Ros Kelly, then Minister for Defence, Science and Personnel opened up the Royal Australian Air Force to aspiring women pilots. Robyn Williams was one of the RAAF’s first female engineers, and had for years optimistically positioned herself for the moment when women could take their place on the RAAF flight deck.
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Onwards and upwards for renewable energy

Jane Nicholls
July 25, 2017
When Jérôme Pécresse says he’s in a growth industry, he’s not just talking about business, though that of course is number one for the CEO of GE Renewable Energy. “Renewable energy is mainstream … a major part of power generation everywhere in the world,” Paris-based Pécresse told the Clean Energy Summit in Sydney on July 18.
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Power sisters: women in renewable energy

Jane Nicholls
July 18, 2017
The numbers are too big to ignore: gender equality boosts men and women, as well as industry, innovation and ultimately the planet. As we try to solve a bunch of complex challenges, we need to throw everyone at it.
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