By Johanna Lim, Research Associate, Strategic Technologies, University of Sydney
Until recently, data centres attracted relatively little public attention. They were largely treated as invisible pieces of digital infrastructure: essential but rarely discussed outside technical and industry circles.
But over the past 12 months across Australia, data centres have become the subject of intense political debate, community opposition, planning disputes and parliamentary inquiries.
Questions are being raised about…
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By Alexandra Hansen, Deputy Editor and Chief of Staff, The Conversation
Signe Dean, Science + Technology Editor, The Conversation
Community opposition to large-scale data centres is growing. Critics are calling for a pause on data centre development, in line with other jurisdictions such as New York, but Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has ruled this out.
We put a call-out to our audience: what questions do you have about data centres? We were quickly overwhelmed with responses and had to close the survey.
This avid response cemented our decision to take a deeper dive into data centres.…
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By Stephanie Wescott, Lecturer, Monash University
Jane Gilmore, PhD Candidate, Monash University
Naomi Pfitzner, Director of the Monash Gender and Family Violence Prevention Hub and Senior Lecturer in Criminology Monash University, Monash University
Important as it is, no amount of social media regulation will meaningfully address the manosphere unless we also dismantle the misogyny that underpins it.
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By Bill Hare, Adjunct Professor of Energy, Murdoch University
Within the next five years, global warming is set to breach the 1.5°C threshold at the heart of the 2015 Paris Agreement. This will have dire consequences, from rapidly melting ice sheets to ghostly white coral…
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By Genevieve McArthur, Professor at the Australian Centre for the Advancement of Literacy, Australian Catholic University
Western Australian author Hamish Kelly has struggled with reading for almost two decades. In his first of two books, he describes his experience of learning to read:
The letters in words were confusing and words often looked the same […] Each year it got harder. Reading got harder and maths got twice as hard, as maths has lots of reading as well […] By year 5, I was down on myself. I felt stupid and dumb!! My Mum, Dad, and teachers told me I wasn’t, but I still…
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By Jack Janetzki, Lecturer in Pharmacy and Pharmacology, Adelaide University
Lauren Cortis, Senior Lecturer in Pharmacy Practice, Adelaide University
Nicole Pratt, Professor of Biostatistics and Pharmacoepidemiology, Adelaide University
New evidence shows more people might benefit from this cholesterol-lowering medication than we previously thought. But that doesn’t mean everyone should take one.
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By Alexandra Crosby, Professor, Faculty of Design and Society, University of Technology Sydney
Collage can be traced back to the invention of paper. Australian artists are still exploring its possibilities today. Here’s how you can, too.
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By Eve Vincent, Associate Professor, Anthropology, Macquarie University
Alice Duncan-Kemp’s books drew on a pastoral childhood in intimate contact with Mithaka people. They formed part of the basis for a 2015 native title determination.
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By Judy Ingham, Newsletter Producer, The Conversation
Every day, we publish a selection of your emails in our newsletter. We’d love to hear from you, you can email us at yoursay@theconversation.edu.au.
Monday September 14
“Your article ‘Cutting the tobacco excise won’t stop the illegal trade. This is how other countries solved the problem’ was novel in that it introduced prosecuting ‘tax evasion’ for the first time that I can remember in this…
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By Jude Pierre Louis
August 14, 1791, put in motion the first major anti-slavery movement in Haiti — part Vodou ceremony, part political congress, and wholly a movement of protest and resistance.
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