Everybody poos (but not all poo is the same). It’s fair to say the human gut is now the most well-studied microbial ecosystem on the planet. Yet more than 70% of the microbial species that live there have yet to be grown in the laboratory.
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An inquiry into a Tasmanian mental health facility, called after a family discovered maggots in a resident’s wound on Christmas Day, found care on the day of the incident was “well below acceptable”. But the remainder of the time, care was “satisfactory”, they suggest.
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If proposed new religious discrimination laws are passed, religious organisations, such as aged care providers, will be allowed to give preference to the employment of people of the same faith.
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