For bartender Vic Vinegar, news of the coronavirus lockdowns were met with tears as he learned he would no longer have to work 7 nights a week in a dungy dive bar cleaning piss and vomit. With social gathering laws restricting venues to no more than 2 people at any time, the venue manager had
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Despite graphite being listed as a ‘critical mineral’ by global leaders, it is not currently produced in Australia. However, that could soon change with Archer Materials (ASX: AXE) confirming testing from its Campoona Prospect to be of the high quality required to produce coated spherical graphite for use in lithium-ion batteries. The testing was conducted
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Australian medtech company Cyclopharm (ASX: CYC) is set to add the United States to the list of 59 countries which have approved Technegas®, its nuclear functional ventilation imaging agent, having lodged its New Drug Application (NDA) with the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). As the world’s largest nuclear medicine market in the world, the opportunity
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Amidst the national lockdown to prevent the spread of COVID-19, the government has encouraged allied healthcare providers to remain open with many of these being essential community services capable of alleviating pressure from the public health system. In his national address on Tuesday night, it was emphasised by Prime Minister Scott Morrison that “health-related services
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With containment of COVID-19 being our global priority for 2020, one of the key themes to have emerged from the pandemic is the collective encouragement by governments for their citizens to work from home (WFH) wherever possible. This has been integral in stopping the spread of coronavirus which can survive on surfaces for up to
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For call centre supervisor Vic Vinegar, morning meetings were always an awkward mix of driving call volumes and feeling the ire of disgruntled employees. But since moving to work-from-home arrangements, Vinegar and colleagues have found a new common interest in popular Netflix series Tiger King. Vinegar’s sudden interest in something other than the weather has
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