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ENVIRONMENT

Minister Nicola Roxon discussed whaling issues in a Sky interview. [Full text]

Minister Roxon has discussed whaling issues in a Melbourne doorstop interview. [Full text]

Greens Senator Bob Brown said the Greens will introduce a bill requiring a patrol vessel to be sent to monitor whaling activity in Australian waters or whale sanctuaries. [Full text]

Greens Senator Rachel Siewert has said the PM should contact the Japanese PM to secure the release of three Australians being detained aboard a Japanese whaling vessel. [Full text]

ENVIRONMENT/HEALTH

Minister Roxon discussed whaling issues and breast implants in an ABC24 interview. [Full text]

HEALTH

Minister Roxon and Parliamentary Secretary Catherine King have announced a hotline for women concerned about their breast implants. [Full text]

The TGA has issued a Q&A on breast implants. [Full text]

The TGA has issued several documents released under FoI. [Full text]

HEALTH/RESEARCH

The Chief Scientist has discussed Australian neuroscience in a Washington speech. [Full text]

HEALTH/CLIMATE CHANGE

The Health Promotion Association and the National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility have issued a special issue of the Health Promotion Journal of Australia. [Full text]

CLIMATE CHANGE/ENERGY

Greens Senator Scott Ludlam said the PM should haul Minister Martin Ferguson into line over the use of ASIO and the AFP to spy on climate change and clean energy activists. [Full text]

The Clean Energy Council has said the SA Opposition's policy on wind farms would threaten more than $3 billion of investment and push up power prices. [Full text]

EDUCATION

Minister Brendan O'Connor said close to 1,000 young parents have started receiving letters explaining the Helping Young Parents measure that will support them to complete their education. [Full text]

The Chief Scientist launched the Mathematical Sciences Institute Summer School. [Full text]

EDUCATION/INNOVATION

Minister Mark Arbib said 19 Indigenous people in Far North Queensland will receive support and mentoring to start micro businesses. [Full text]

INNOVATION

Minister Kim Carr has discussed negotiations with US carmakers in a New Radio interview. [Full text]

Entries for the 2012 Telstra Australian Business Awards open on 6/2. [Full text]

INNOVATION/AGRICULTURE

Hansard is online of a 13/12/11 hearing in Canberra for a Senate committee inquiry into the food processing sector. [Full text]

METEOROLOGY/WATER/AGRICULTURE

ABARES has issued a weekly climate, water and agricultural update. [Full text]

ICT

The FoI Commissioner has issued a decision on a complaint by Liberal MP Tony Smith regarding FoI costs charged by DBCDE. [Full text]

The FoI Commissioner has issued a decision on a related complaint by Liberal MP Paul Fletcher. [Full text]

HERITAGE

DSEWPC has said two South Korean nationals received fines after pleading guilty to charges under the Historic Shipwrecks Act 1976. [Full text]

BIOSECURITY

APVMA has said it is assessing an application to make a vaccine specific for pigeon paramyxovirus available in Australia. [Full text]

GENERAL

Greens Senator Lee Rhiannon said an independent office should be established to ensure foreign aid now flowing to corporate Australia is delivering the best results. [Full text]

EDUCATION

Minister Julie Collins said the Crèche and Kindergarten Association of Queensland and Indigenous Success Australia are developing a strategy to create jobs for Indigenous people. [Full text]

Minister Collins has said up to 60 Indigenous jobseekers on the north-west Tasmanian coast will benefit from training and connections to jobs. [Full text]

Minister Collins has said 68 Indigenous people from North Queensland will have the opportunity to develop their skills and be placed into jobs in the mining or civil construction industries. [Full text]

Minister Collins has said Indigenous people in South East Queensland will have new employment and training opportunities in the electrical trades. [Full text]

Universities Australia has issued its submission to Skills Australia's Update of the Skilled Occupations List for 2012. [Full text]

The EU's Summer School for Secondary School Teachers will be held at the ANU on 16-18/1. [Full text]

RESEARCH/EDUCATION/NUCLEAR

ANSTO is running educational science programs these school holidays. [Full text]

INNOVATION/RESOURCES/NUCLEAR

Greens Senator Scott Ludlam has said the Malaysian press is reporting unreasonable restrictions on public access to documents relating to Lynas Corporation's rare earth refinery. [Full text]

INNOVATION

DLP Senator John Madigan said the closure of the Heinz tomato sauce plant in Victoria is further evidence that the Government has turned its back on the manufacturing sector. [Full text]

The Food & Grocery Council said the closure of the Heinz factory is indicative of the immense pressures facing food and grocery manufacturers to remain competitive. [Full text]

ICT

Minister Brendan O'Connor has said Point of Presence technology will be rolled out this summer in the event of significant emergencies. [Full text]

Tony Abbott has discussed the NBN in a 2UE interview. [Full text]

NBNCo has said more than 4000 premises were connected to the NBN at the end of 2011. [Full text]

ACMA invited comment on its proposed approach to the digital dividend auction. [Full text]

ACMA has issued submissions to its review of fees and charges. [Full text]

auDA has issued a Domain Name News. [Full text]

RESOURCES/ICT

The Business-Higher Ed Roundtable will host 'Investing in the Fieldonomics of Mining Automation and Innovation' in Mackay on 21/2. [Full text]

RESOURCES/ECONOMICS

The RBA issued 'The Mining Industry: From Bust to Boom'. [Full text]

The RBA issued 'Australia's Prosperous 2000s: Housing and the Mining Boom'. [Full text]

AGRICULTURE

Minister Joe Ludwig and Parliamentary Secretary Sid Sidebottom have welcomed 2012 - the Australian Year of the Farmer. [Full text]

The NFF welcomed the Australian Year of the Farmer. [Full text]

BIOTECH/AGRICULTURE

DoHA has issued the final report from The Allen Consulting Group regarding a Review of the Gene Technology Act 2000. [Full text]

DoHA has issued submissions to that review. [Full text]

WATER/AGRICULTURE

The Irrigators' Council said the closure of the Heinz's tomato sauce factory is a sign of what will come if the Government adopts the Murray Darling Basin Draft Plan. [Full text]

AGRICULTURE/ENVIRONMENT

The Business-Higher Ed Roundtable called for papers for a Food Security: Science, Sustainability and Governance conference in Melbourne in July. [Full text]

METEOROLOGY/AGRICULTURE

The BoM has issued an ENSO Wrap-up. [Full text]

METEOROLOGY

The BoM has issued its 2011 Climate Statement. [Full text]

ENVIRONMENT

Greens Senator Rachel Siewert called on the Government to ask Japan to remove vessels from the Australian Whale Sanctuary and to cease shadowing the Sea Shepherd vessel Steve Irwin. [Full text]

WATER/ENVIRONMENT

DSEWPC invited expressions of interest to form a consortium to carry out the design, collection, analysis and interpretation of river health data for the Lake Eyre Basin Rivers Assessment. [Full text]

CLIMATE CHANGE

Tony Abbott has discussed climate policy in a Brisbane doorstop interview. [Full text]

Shadow Parliamentary Secretary Simon Birmingham has said Australians face a growing black-hole being kept secret by Labor's refusal to thoroughly model the impact of its carbon tax. [Full text]

ENERGY

The EUAA has said renewable energy schemes will force up electricity bills in 2012. [Full text]

The EUAA has issued a newsletter. [Full text]

HEALTH

The TGA has issued 'Poly Implant Prosthese breast implants - the Australian perspective'. [Full text]

The TGA has said there is no evidence of increased rupture rate for PIP breast implants in Australia. [Full text]

The ACCC has instituted proceedings in the Federal Court against Safe Breast Imaging and its sole director. [Full text]

The TGA has issued 'Prescription medicine BPR update newsletter'. [Full text]

PHIAC said the interest rate for calculation of the renewal option amount to be applied by all private health insurers for Q4 2011 is 3.430% per annum. [Full text]

CHEMICAL REGULATION

NICNAS has issued a Chemical Gazette. [Full text]

GENERAL

Attorney-General Nicola Roxon has said new laws will be checked to see if they stack up against human rights obligations. [Full text]

The National Archives has issued Cabinet papers from 1982 and 1983. [Full text]

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