Tasmania's paramedics are modelling new looks as part of a statewide uniform review to be unveiled early next year.

Source: The Mercury

The Defence Department is investigating a group of serving soldiers over demeaning comments on social media made about Townsville women in north Queensland.

Source: ABC

A police officer lost his two front teeth during a violent arrest in far north Queensland.

Source: Brisbane Times

Police say a woman was assaulted while at the checkout of a Darwin supermarket last night and three security guards were forced to take refuge in a coolroom during a rampage by a gang of attackers.

Source: ABC

All but four of WA's 16 prisons have been identified as having some form of asbestos contamination, with two facilities rated as high-risk, it has emerged.

Source: The West

If you're one of the Canberra majority walking the short distance from car park to heated workplace this winter, spare a thought for those who have to brave the elements a little longer.

Source: Canberra Times

Police say three masked men armed with sledgehammers and a crow bar have robbed workers at a cafe in Kensington in Sydney's south-east.

Source: ABC

A crane hire company and its director have been fined a total of $71,000 after a worker suffered serious head and neck injuries when he fell through a roof.

Source: Perth Now

The risk of asbestos exposure to Canberra workers rolling out the national broadband network will be assessed before work in Telstra pits will be permitted to resume, safety authority ACT WorkSafe says.

Source: Canberra Times

A union has accused authorities of tinkering at the edges of an asbestos problem that has been dragging on at Darwin's George Brown Botanic Gardens for more than a year.

Source: ABC

An Adelaide woman who won a record sexual harassment claim against her former employer has resolved a dispute with the man who claimed to have paid her legal bills.

Source: ABC

WorkSafe ACT says it is working closely with Telstra and Comcare to ensure asbestos uncovered during the National Broadband Network rollout in the ACT is handled safely.

Source: ABC

The Roads and Maritime Service (RMS) has admitted that asbestos uncovered at the Sydney Harbour Bridge was not immediately sealed after it was uncovered earlier this week.

Source: ABC

The Canberra builder accused of exposing a young family to asbestos is the subject of an investigation by WorkSafe ACT which could result in a prosecution.

Source: Canberra Times

Victoria is lagging behind in giving its firefighters greater access to compensation for some cancers, the state's volunteer firefighters network says.

Source: The Age

One of Australia's biggest studies of fly-in, fly-out work has uncovered stress, divorce, psychological disorders, a reliance on drugs and alcohol to cope and a stigma attached to seeking help as being prevalent among WA workers.

Source: The West

A tree lopper has died after he was struck in the throat by a piece of rope whilst using a wood-chipping machine in the state's south.

Source: SMH

We are all guilty of it. Even the die-hard workaholics. When work (and life's) stresses become overwhelming, we take a day off.

Source: SMH

Hundreds of Canberra families may have been exposed to a deadly form of asbestos believed to have been removed from homes in the early 1990s.

Source: Canberra Times

A woman was killed when she fell off the side of a tractor and was crushed on a rural property south of Adelaide.

Source: Adelaide Now

Guards are refusing to return to work at the Banksia Hill juvenile detention centre until a list of safety demands has been addressed.

Source: ABC

After Abby Holt complained of bullying by her team leader at Westpac's Queensland head office, a senior manager escorted her off the premises without even investigating, a Commissioner has found.

Source: Courier Mail