By Patrick Dodd, Professional Teaching Fellow, Business School, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Hanoku Bathula, Professional Teaching Fellow in Management and International Business, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Businesses are increasingly turning to AI and personalised data to become more efficient. Will that leave workers earning less and customers paying more?
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By Isabel Meciar, PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland
Cheneal Puljević, UQ Amplify Senior Research Fellow, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland
Coral Gartner, Director, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame and ARC Future Fellow, The University of Queensland
The Coalition has proposed slashing the tobacco excise, the federal tax on tobacco products, by 80%. It claims cheaper legal cigarettes will draw people who smoke away from the illicit market and deprive organised crime of its profits.
The proposal sounds appealing but is deeply flawed. Australia’s high tobacco tax undeniably makes untaxed sales profitable. Yet this incentive is not by itself a cause.
Whether a tax creates a thriving…
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By Carl Rhodes, Professor of Business and Society, University of Technology Sydney
Democracy demands that citizens are treated equally under the law. The tax avoidance practices of the ultra-rich violate that principle, a new book argues.
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By Gabrielle Appleby, Professor of Law, UNSW Law School, UNSW
Australian governments have an unfortunate history with community grants programs. Sports infrastructure programs, car park grants and other schemes have repeatedly raised the same concern: public money intended to serve communities becomes entangled with electoral politics.
The Albanese government’s…
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By Jenny Doust, Clinical Professorial Research Fellow, Australian Women and Girls' Health Research Centre, The University of Queensland
Ovarian cancer has a particularly poor survival rate. Only one in two women will live five years beyond their diagnosis.
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By Ella Clausius, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Reef Ecology, University of Tasmania
Not so long ago, we thought the ocean was an inexhaustible resource. There would always be plenty more fish in the sea.
We now know this isn’t true. A growing proportion of the world’s oceans are overfished. And even though we’re fishing more intensively and using more advanced gear than ever, the total number of…
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By Md Alamgir Hossain, Senior Lecturer, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Southern Queensland
Shahbaz Mushtaq, Director of the Centre for Applied Climate Sciences, University of Southern Queensland
Imagine you’re halfway through your annual wheat harvest when a global crisis sends diesel and fertiliser prices soaring. All at once, your costs surge and your slender profit margin shrinks.
Are there alternatives? Increasingly, the answer is yes. Putting solar on the shed roof or an unproductive field could help keep the farm running.
In August, the federal government announced it would lift the cap on…
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By Guy Curtis, Associate Professor, The University of Western Australia
Amanda White, Associate Professor in Accounting
Unis have always had academic misconduct processes in place. But the impact of these experiences on students’ wellbeing has been mostly anecdotal.
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By GV Central Asia and Caucasus
When a woman learns to calculate the value of her time and says, “This is evidence, and they must answer,” a permanent shift takes place for her and the community.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image © 2025 Brian Stauffer for Human Rights Watch In the early hours of September 5, a UN disarmament meeting in Geneva concluded three years of work on autonomous weapons systems, colloquially known as killer robots. While the final report was significantly watered down, it left the door open for more concrete action in November, with a record number of states now supporting negotiations on legally binding rules.The stakes could not be higher, given growing reports that autonomous weapons are already being deployed on the battlefield. These systems, which select…
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