By Ella Vines, Post-doctoral researcher, Green Lab, Monash University
If Australia is to take meaningful climate action, federal parliament must engage with the facts without distortion. Barnaby Joyce obviously didn’t get the memo.
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By Arzu Geybullayeva
When prisoners ask for more water, working fans, or basic hygiene equipment, the answer is often the same: "This is a prison, not a resort.
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By Ella Vines, Post-doctoral researcher, Green Lab, Monash University
If Australia is to take meaningful climate action, federal parliament must engage with the facts without distortion. Barnaby Joyce obviously didn’t get the memo.
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By Angelique Nadia Sweetman McInnes, Academic in Financial Planning, CQUniversity Australia
An ex-financial adviser shares her tips on spotting dodgy advice, as thousands of people wait to see if they’ll lose more than $1 billion in super.
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By Christopher Rudge, Law lecturer, University of Sydney
The ruling has allowed the Department of Social Services to resume pursuing historical welfare debts, which the Ombudsman has previously found to be unlawful.
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By John Madden, Emeritus Professor, Centre of Policy Studies, Victoria University
Venues built for mega sporting events often have very large cost overruns. Perhaps Tasmania could learn a lesson from Beijing’s Bird’s Nest stadium.
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By Ken Pang, Senior Principal Research Fellow and Group Leader, Transgender Health Research Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Anja Ravine, Research Fellow, Transgender Health Group, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
Some claim ‘social contagion’ is driving teenagers who were assigned female at birth to identify as transgender and seek medical care.
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By Jamilla Rosdahl, Senior Lecturer, Australian College of Applied Psychology
Last month, actor Brad Pitt stepped onto the Formula One circuit as the leading man of the high-octane film F1, backed by Apple Studios, Jerry Bruckheimer Films and Pitt’s own Plan B Entertainment.
During the publicity campaign, cameras followed Pitt at every twist and turn, beaming…
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By Daswin de Silva, Professor of AI and Analytics, Director of AI Strategy, La Trobe University
We are entering the third phase of generative AI. First came the chatbots, followed by the assistants. Now we are beginning to see agents: systems that aspire to greater autonomy and can work in “teams” or use tools to accomplish complex tasks.
The latest hot product is OpenAI’s ChatGPT agent. This combines two pre-existing products (Operator and Deep Research) into a single more powerful system which, according to the developer, “thinks and acts”.
These new systems represent a step up from…
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By Judy Ingham, Newsletter Producer
Climate despair, cutting funding to childcare centres and horrifying grocery costs in NZ: an edited selection of your feedback on our stories.
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