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New Curtin University research has found the Moon may have been subjected to much greater impacts from asteroids and other bodies than previously thought, building on our understanding of the Moon’s earliest geologic evolution.

Job advertisements on the online portal SEEK in August were down by 5.3% month-on-month but up 55.9% year-on-year, the company says.

The number of new jobs on offer to Australian executives increased in July despite the severe and continuing lockdown in New South Wales and occasionally other states, according to a new report from human resources firm EL Consult.

Fixed wireless and wholesale network infrastructure provider Swoop has secured a $5 million deal with Orro Group to provide enterprise ethernet services in Western Australia. The contract will bring fibre connectivity in more than 150 locations in the state.

Western Australian managed IT services consulting company Netlink has rebranded its business with help from digital agency PWD.

It's a busy time for rural, regional and remote telco Field Solutions Group (FSG). The company has secured three financial awards under the Federal Government's mobile black spot program to run the first neutral host radio access trial, to provide another 15 towers, and to trial domestic roaming.

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has allocated $11.3 million in funding to aluminium manfacturer Alcoa to demonstrate technology that can electrify the production of steam in its alumina refining process using renewable energy.

Western Australia's first industry-university 5G laboratory has opened, with telco Singtel Optus and Curtin University showcasing some 5G uses.

Reconciliation Australia has dropped Telstra from its elite Elevate leaders group in the wake of the company admitting it had breached consumer law by selling post-paid mobile products to Indigenous customers.

Defence contractor ASC is undertaking a digital transformation of its critical business systems to set the ground for its digital shipyard transition.

The Australian Information Industry Association AIIA) says Western Australia has the capacity to move up the rankings in the country’s digital inclusion index and move ahead of third placed NSW in the next 12 months.

Mining giant Fortescue Metals has undertaken the operational deployment of autonomous light vehicles (ALV’s) at the company’s mining operations in the Chichester Hub in Western Australia’s Pilbara region.

National broadband network operator NBN Co has announced the extension of its fibre network rollout, with the second tranche to pass 100,000 premises on the way to the goal of 2 million premises with fibre by the end of 2023.

Average petrol prices rose in the September quarter 2020 after a record low earlier in the year, but still remain well below the 15-year real average of 151.6 cents per litre (cpl), according to a new report from the competition watchdog, the ACCC.

The CSIRO's Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, a radio telescope that has few equals in the world, has been used to conduct a survey of the entire southern sky in record speed and detail, creating a new atlas of the universe.

Western Australian electricity company Horizon Power is getting $2.6 million in funding from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) to build Australia’s first remote microgrid using renewable hydrogen generation in the coastal town of Denham in the north-west of the State..

The Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) is partnering with the Western Australian Government to stimulate the local ICT sector across the State.

Telstra has been taken to court by the competition watchdog, the ACCC, over its admitted breach of consumer law through “unconscionable conduct” in the sale of post-paid mobile products to Indigenous consumers. 

A strong showing by Victoria has helped boost online job ads for October, the recruitment firm SEEK says, adding that though ads were up by 8.5% month-on-month, there was a 11.7% fall year-on-year, the lowest year-on-year drop since the beginning of the pandemic. Last month, the month-on-month growth was higher, at 9.25%.

Dell Technologies, along with ICT enabler Computer Aid International, has launched its Solar Learning Labs project in Australia with the first lab to be funded for delivery to an Indigenous community and to be rolled out next year, and a total of five planned by 2030.