By Cheng Cheng, Senior Research Officer, School of Engineering, Australian National University
Australia’s renewable boom has created a new bottleneck: grid access. As new transmission line costs blow out amid protests, we need to optimise the build.
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By Roslyn Petelin, Honorary Associate Professor in Writing, The University of Queensland
AI slop was the clear winner of Macquarie’s Word of the Year – it also won the People’s Choice Award. Honourable mentions included another AI-related word: clanker.
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By Laura Walls, PhD Candidate in Screenwriting, Queensland University of Technology
Much of The Beast in me is sensitive, sophisticated storytelling. So why is this sacrificed for a gratuitous depiction of violence against women?
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By Michael Rawling, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney
News of the proposed deal broke a day before rival delivery company Menulog’s closure in Australia – with its customers set to be redirected to Uber Eats.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Members of the Burmese-American community demonstrate outside the Consulate General of Myanmar in Los Angeles, April 24, 2021. © 2021 Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images Is it safe to return to a country wracked by an abusive armed conflict, widespread atrocities, and targeted ethnic violence, including war crimes and crimes against humanity?The Trump administration says it is. On November 24, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued notice of termination of Temporary Protective Status (TPS) for people from Myanmar, effective…
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By Jean Sovon
Nigeria is experience a mining boom due to Chinese investment, however, many are looking to ensure the benefits trickle down to the regular population — particularly those affected by mining operations.
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By Rachel Carey, Senior Lecturer in Food Systems, The University of Melbourne
It’s a missed opportunity to think differently about how we can ensure all Australians have access to enough healthy and sustainably produced food.
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By Kylie M. Cairns, Research Fellow in Canid and Wildlife Genomics, UNSW Sydney
Mathew Crowther, Professor, University of Sydney
Melanie Fillios, Professor, Department of Archaeology and Palaeoanthropology, University of New England
Mike Letnic, Professor, Evolution and Ecology Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
Just like everyone and everything else that was already in Australia when the First Fleet arrived in 1788, dingoes had to adapt to their new reality.
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By Meena Chavan, Associate Professor of International Business and Entrepreneurship, Macquarie University
Anna Earl, Senior Lecturer, Management, Marketing and Tourism, University of Canterbury
Small businesses in Australia and New Zealand navigate sanctions through loopholes and grey zones. But they run big risks if they get it wrong, deliberately or not.
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By Human Rights Watch
Click to expand Image Students in a classroom in a state public school in Lauro de Freitas, Bahia, May 17, 2023. © Joa Souza/Imago via Reuters A new quantitative study from National Observatory on Violence Against Educators represents one of the most comprehensive efforts to date to measure the nature and scale of censorship and harassment of educators across Brazil.While previous analyses have documented the legal and political tactics to undermine or prohibit human rights education, this new report offers a nationally representative dataset showing the problem’s…
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