On Air Highlights
Archive for September, 2011
29 September 2011
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The Australian government is calling on the national air carrier Qantas to explain if it had any role in helping to draft Fiji’s new Essential Services Decree
29 September 2011
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A medical team in Newcastle NSW have come up with a formula to precisely tailor existing asthma medication to individual sufferers which they say could lead to a 50 per cent reduction in attacks.
29 September 2011
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Pakistan’s Agriculture Ministry says lost crops due to flooding this year could cost the country almost two billion US dollars.
29 September 2011
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Guam a new law is being proposed which will require welfare recipients to take drug tests in order to qualify for benefits.
29 September 2011
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Internet scams are usually thought of as emails asking for money but now there’s another form we need to be wary of: internet dating.
28 September 2011
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The Pacific Games Council has confirmed four positive drug tests have so far been returned from the recent games in Noumea.
28 September 2011
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The Western Australia area surrounding the proposed Woodside gas hub project in the state’s Kimberley region has come under scrutiny from palaeontologists preparing an environmental report into the impact of the development on ancient dinosaur prints in the area.
28 September 2011
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Countries in East Asia are increasingly looking to pop culture, as an instrument of “soft power”.
28 September 2011
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The Indigenous music group from Central Australia, Iwantja, have won the 2011 Deadly Award for Most Promising New Talent in Music.
28 September 2011
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But first, Australia’s Parliamentary Secretary for Pacific Affairs, Richard Marles, says Australia is now more engaged with the Pacific than ever before.
