By Christoph Nedopil, Industry Professor, Business School, The University of Queensland
For decades, China’s market of 1.4 billion people and extraordinary economic growth gave Australian exporters seemingly endless opportunities. The prevailing assumption was that China’s growing middle class would:
build more infrastructure requiring steel
consume more electricity using coal
and send their children overseas for education.
But China has been transitioning…
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By Rory Mulcahy, Associate Professor of Marketing, University of the Sunshine Coast
Aimee Riedel, Senior Lecturer in Marketing, Griffith University
Asha Worsteling, PhD Student, The University of Queensland; Griffith University
Lucas Whittaker, Lecturer in Marketing, Swinburne University of Technology
Renee Barnes, Associate Professor of Journalism, University of the Sunshine Coast
The Victorian election is still months away, yet voters are already being shown events which never happened. A machete attack at a petrol station, a woman giving birth on the roadside, floodwater pouring down the steps of parliament: all “deepfakes” generated by artificial intelligence (AI), and all reportedly appearing as paid advertising ahead of voters going to the polls.
Previously described as a potential “
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By Anastasia Powell, Professor of Family and Sexual Violence, RMIT University
52 Australian women have lost their lives to violence this year, including three in recent weeks. How do we make sure we don’t get compassion fatigue?
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By Neophytos Georgiou, Lecturer and Research Fellow, College of Human Sciences and Culture, Flinders University
People with rigid thinking patterns who prefer routine and order may be drawn to extremist groups’ black-and-white solutions. But autism itself is not the problem.
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By Coral Gartner, Director, NHMRC Centre of Research Excellence on Achieving the Tobacco Endgame and ARC Future Fellow, The University of Queensland
Ara Cho, Research fellow, School of Public Health, The University of Queensland
A new study suggests making cigarettes cheaper would risk making smoking-related poverty in Australia worse overall, given it could lead to more people smoking.
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By Kristyn Harman, Professor in History, University of Tasmania
Many former convicts changed their names and hid their past. But over the last 50 years, Australians have increasingly discovered – and embraced – convict relatives.
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By Tina Soliman-Hunter, Professor of Energy and Natural Resources Law, Macquarie University
Renewables are reshaping the global energy sector.
Around the globe, we are installing solar panels and wind turbines with unprecedented speed with the aim of curbing climate…
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By Sarah Stevens, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Adolescent Mental Health at the Black Dog Institute, UNSW
Aliza Werner-Seidler, Professor and Program Lead in Adolescent Mental Health at the Black Dog Institute; Clinical Psychologist, UNSW
By the time an Australian student is 15, they will have already spent as many as 11,000 hours at school. What happens here matters for their wellbeing.
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By San Beauchemin, Doctoral Researcher, School of Political Studies, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
The International Court of Justice is reportedly going to rule in the coming weeks in The Gambia v. Myanmar, the genocide case against Myanmar.
In 2019, The Gambia filed an application at the ICJ alleging that Myanmar had violated the United Nations’ 1948…
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By Andrew J Tanentzap, Professor and Canada Research Chair, Trent University; University of Cambridge
Danai Kontou, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Invasion Ecology, University of Leeds
Most invasive species are introduced into the areas where they become damaging. That’s part of why they tend to be so successful in taking over new environments and causing billions of dollars in damage.
But what if species that we thought were introduced by humans arrived naturally?
In our recent research paper, we made a startling discovery about one of North…
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