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On the road to Gundag
Susan Sheldrick | November 19, 2024AI is already used throughout rural communities from precision agriculture to self-driving trucks. But we need to help regional small businesses benefit from AI while avoiding the harmful aspects.
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Australia’s “next-gen” engineers
Ampalavanapillai Nirmalathas | November 19, 2024Engineering’s future is not just about training more and more recruits to fill the current shortage, so universities must also focus on the qualities of our next-gen engineers.
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Back from the bush
Open Forum | November 19, 2024Most bushrangers are best known from semi-fictional accounts written decades after their deaths, but a new book uncovers a few that told their own stories.
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Sleep on it
Dan Denis | November 18, 2024John Steinbeck once observed that “It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it” and modern research suggests he was right.
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Detecting fake news with AI
Magda Osman | November 18, 2024Fake news detection systems can combine AI and insights from behavioural science to flag fake news content, but could also create problems of their own.
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Ancient tips for older people
Konstantine Panegyres | November 18, 2024The Ancient Greeks and Romans had a lot to say about longevity and good health and much of it remains true today.
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Cod in a log
Open Forum | November 17, 2024Researchers are trialling the use of artificial ‘cod logs’ to create new nesting habitats for the endangered Mary River cod in Queensland.
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Goin’ South
Open Forum | November 17, 2024Modern researchers have found evidence that a Polynesian settlement on the northernmost of the Auckland Islands was inhabited for almost a century between 1250 and 1320 AD.
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Musclebound
Open Forum | November 17, 2024Adolescent boys and young men are increasingly resorting to the dangerous use of anabolic steroids to achieve the muscular build idealised on social media according to a new study by Flinders University reseachers.
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Uncovering election coverage
Denis Muller | November 16, 2024Media coverage in Australia of the US presidential election and of the Voice referendum in October 2023 offer some pointers to what we might expect during next year’s federal election campaign.
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Power to the person
Anil Anand | November 16, 2024The recent US election epitomises a shift in public trust from systems and institutions to successful individuals like Elon Musk and Donald Trump; even though there are fewer or no checks and balances on how they may manipulate circumstances for their own personal benefit. The Trump victory is clearly a Trump victory and not a Republican one.
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Enter the dragon
John West | November 16, 2024Kevin Rudd’s new book, “On Xi Jinping,” offers insightful analysis of the transformation of Chinese politics, economics, and foreign policy under Xi Jinping’s leadership, highlighting the renewed role of ideology in shaping policy.
