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Wind farm safety in the spotlight

Jane Nicholls
July 31, 2018
In a motel in Kingaroy, outback Queensland, this training session is instantly distinct from familiar corporate-education days: the facilitator has set off passionate discussions before the participants have even finished their first coffee. “What are the top dangers you have little or no control of when you’re at work?” he asks. The focus in the room is unwavering as he writes up the answers they call out on the whiteboard. Forget the standard workplace gripes of inbox overload, pointless meetings, stolen lunches from the communal fridge.
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Algae: the new green growth industry

Natalie Filatoff
July 02, 2018

Marine biologist Professor Peter Ralph is leading his team at the University of Technology Sydney to a world first in demonstrating algal production of pharmaceuticals on an industrial scale. Stephen O’Sullivan, business development manager at GE Healthcare Life Sciences, wants to reduce the cost of high-end therapeutics for diseases such as cancer, and to see more Australian science graduates actually employed in Australian science.

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Monash Grid Innovation Hub combines power with passion

Natalie Filatoff
April 18, 2018
Electricity is the most hotly contested topic in Australia, given the country’s ageing energy infrastructure, rising electricity prices, supply volatility, changing demand and the imperative to decarbonise the sector for the sake of the planet. Now, right under the arc of the political football, Monash University has gathered a group of team players to address the energy sector’s biggest problems, and to coach a new national squad in the ways of the future digitised grid.
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What Keren Rambow will do for Australian aviation

Jessica Power
December 14, 2017
Plane speaking, genuine, formidably qualified, Keren Rambow touched down at GE Aviation in April 2016. Within 18 months as sales director of Commercial Engines and Service Sales in the South Asia Pacific Region, she had orchestrated the ideal suite of engines and services to power growth for Fiji Airways, negotiated a complex engine-support restructure for Qantas and Jetstar, and started an Australian chapter of the International Aviation Women’s Association.
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ESP helps Australia breathe easy

Natalie Filatoff
November 23, 2017
It takes more than an Allen key and a caffeine drip to open 50 shipping containers of some 3,000 flatpacked parts and assemble them into a 350-tonne lung that filters air for Australia.
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Inside Crotonville: GE’s Corporate Vault Unlocked

Jane Nicholls
October 29, 2017

When it established its Crotonville campus in 1956, GE wanted to make itself the “best-managed company” in the world. Such hubris was par for the course (there was a lot of golf, too) in that Mad Men era, when leadership was about command and control. The GE advanced managers’ course ran for 12 weeks—unthinkably long today—coaching old-school bosses on how to lead for such aims as scaling up manufacturing processes.

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A world-first app for Qantas pilots

Jane Nicholls
October 29, 2017
Aviation is arguably the most advanced of all data-driven industries, collecting terabytes of data from the thousands of aircraft circling the globe and carefully organising and constantly analysing it in the pursuit of safety and efficiency.
Big data reveals insights to drive the Industrial Internet, but small data has impressive powers of persuasion, too.
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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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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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