As COVID-19 has continued to terrorise the world (especially here in Melbourne, where we’re back in stage 4 lockdown), many people have decided to postpone their training sessions until the pandemic has passed. Well, ‘until the pandemic has passed’ looks like a time increasingly far away into the future and it seems ‘these times’ will be ‘the new normal’ for longer than we’d initially thought. Although most people are still working remotely (and some will be for quite some ti

15 years on, few of us can erase the unbelievable images of New York City's World Trade Centre collapsing on the dreadful day of 11th September, 2001. But how many of us knew that Rick Rescorla, a security employee for major corporate firm Morgan Stanley at the Twin Towers had indeed predicted and raised concerns over a terrorist attack of this very nature, not only once, but twice? Rick Rescorla saved an unbelievable number of 2,687 people’s lives on September 11. As a jumbo

Meteorologists have predicted that this summer will be one of the hottest and driest seasons yet. Emergency services pushed Victoria’s fire season forward by a month, prompted by predictions of extreme weather conditions. With warnings that nearly all states in Australia will potentially endure severe fire seasons, it is critical that you are prepared. From 2014-15 emergency services in Victoria responded to around 4,250 bush and grass fires – and that’s just for one state. D

In the early hours of the 15th of December in the U.S., the two largest school districts in Los Angeles and New York received a threat from an alleged Muslim extremist. The threat was said to detail plans of violence to take place in all schools in the two districts with bombs allegedly being left inside schools and further shootings scheduled to occur. The two school districts had differing responses to the threat. Neither response was wrong – both made justified actions bas

With the aging population of Australia set to explode, media scrutiny of the aged care sector will only increase as aged care becomes increasingly topical for a large portion of Australians. Coupled with the shake-up as the Federal Government implements its Living Longer Living Better aged care reforms and persistent scandals such as the allegations of starvation, beatings and suspicious deaths at a Bundaberg facility which was recently brough to national attention, the indus

The staff member involved in last week’s terrifying armed-hold up at a Melbourne 7-Eleven convenience store admitted that the incident has left him traumatised. And why wouldn’t you be… Check out the chilling CCTV footage for yourself as the gunman points his weapon towards the staff member’s head before taking off with a lump of cash. With over 1,200 armed robberies occurring across a wide variety of business types in the last financial year in Victoria alone (VicPol Crime S