Researchers at UC are working with bacteria whose ability to concentrate different metals could be used to access valuable elements or to clear toxic metals from polluted water.

Australia's Senate agreed to begin a national inquiry into how the destruction of two ancient and sacred Aboriginal caves occurred.

The producers have contracted labor consultant TEBA to transport 14,000 foreign workers back to the mines.

The world's largest miner said its South Flank iron ore project would not disturb the sites identified without further consultation.