By Mehdi Seyedmahmoudian, Professor of Electrical Engineering, School of Engineering, Swinburne University of Technology
To meet demand from artificial intelligence companies, some of the world’s largest data centres are planned for the outskirts of major Australian cities. Dozens more are planned. OpenAI chief Sam Altman has said Australia could be a global…
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By Andrew Norton, Professor of Higher Education Policy, Monash University
Ren-Hao Xu, Lecturer, Graduate School of Education, The University of Western Australia
Under the Morrison government’s Job-ready Graduates scheme, the price of arts degrees more than doubled to over A$50,000.
But while attention has understandably been focused on undergraduate degrees, what has happened at the postgraduate level?
In a new research…
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By Michael Westaway, Professor of Archaeology and Biological Anthropology, School of Social Science, The University of Queensland
Jennifer Silcock, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, School of the Environment, The University of Queensland
Rahul Chandora, PhD Student, Centre for Crop Science, The University of Queensland
Robert Henry, Director, Queensland Alliance for Agriculture and Food Innovation, The University of Queensland
Sammi Blinco, Director, Mithaka Aboriginal Corporation, Indigenous Knowledge
Shawnee Gorringe, Admin & Research Support at Mithaka Aboriginal Corporation, Indigenous Knowledge
Seen from the air, Channel Country resembles a vibrant and vast tapestry, with a network of waterways crisscrossing the land. Spread across more than 280,000 square kilometres in outback Australia, it is one of the world’s last free-flowing desert river systems.
In the heart of Channel Country, in southwest Queensland, live the Mithaka people whose ancestors over at least the past 3,000 years played a key role in the development of a transcontinental trade and exchange system. Plants were a central part of the economy…
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By David M. Pritchard, Associate Professor of Greek History, The University of Queensland
Control of the Dardanelles and the Bosphorus strait was life and death for ancient Athens. Waterways are no less important – and contentious – today.
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By Anthony Macris, Professor of Creative Writing, University of Technology Sydney
I first read The Odyssey during the summer holidays when I was 15 years old. Parked under the shade of the mulberry tree in our Brisbane backyard, I would read, grab a few mulberries, then read some more, my fingers sometimes staining the pages dark purple. It was a secondhand Penguin Classics edition, translated by E.V. Rieu, its yellowing paper and creased spine, to my teenage eyes, somehow as ancient as the work itself.
Every time I read the Homeric epithet “wine-dark sea” – one of the repeated formulas that bear…
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By Jonathan Boston, Professor of Public Policy , Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
As New Zealand heads toward another general election, political attention is naturally focused on the issues touching people’s lives right now.
The months ahead are sure to bring more pledged policies to ease the country’s cost of living crisis, housing…
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By Aaron Walayat, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Dayton
Courts have long let utilities seize private property to build transmission lines. Does that hold if the power flows to a single data center?
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By Gemma Ware, Host, The Conversation Weekly Podcast, The Conversation
Listen to The Conversation Weekly podcast to hear Philip Brown and Kirsty Fairclough discuss Manchesterism, the political philosophy of Andy Burnham.
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By Randa Lindsey Kachef, Lecturer in Environmental Geography, Birkbeck, University of London; King's College London
Edward White, PhD Candidate in Psychology, Kingston University
A new film about the climate emergency is designed to change behaviour. But there’s a risk that in-depth discussions replace action.
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By Christian Ungruhe, Research fellow, University of Passau
No African teams made it past the quarter-finals of the 2026 men’s football World Cup, but their strategic and tactical play left a lasting impression.
The success of African teams doesn’t come out of the blue, it’s the result of a long process.…
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