Aug
20
2025
Matt Dun has devoted his career to researching the rare and most fatal of childhood cancers including acute myeloid leukaemia and diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (known as DIPG), a paediatric brain cancer. Dun’s young daughter died of DIPG, a disease which is almost always fatal within a matter of months. As Professor of Paediatric Haematology …read more
Aug
6
2025
Buying into so-called alternative investments – often collectables – can be a chancy business, warns Capital Partners principal and financial adviser Rakesh Shah. “While it’s true that some investors have made fortunes in this space, these success stories are the exception rather than the norm,” he adds. One client’s collectable coins had been properly valued, …read more
Jun
25
2025
From listening to doctor-patient conversations and writing up the medical notes, to creating multi-level lesson plans for a high-school class, to offering to make text messages “funnier” – generative artificial intelligence is everywhere and evolving at speed. The modern professional needs to understand the scope and potential pitfalls of genAI to take full advantage of …read more
Jun
18
2025
Touch football is just as popular as netball at St Hilda’s, an independent day and boarding school for girls on the Gold Coast. AFL is one of the most popular sports at the school. “We have touch football, cricket, AFL, soccer,” says head of the school’s Athena Sports Program Lisa Cleverly. “Some of them are …read more
Jun
18
2025
Australian schools are increasingly using artificial intelligence tools for assessment and teacher assistance; to help provide individualised feedback to students and create new ways of learning. However, the take-up has been patchy, says Therese Hopfenbeck, director of the Assessment & Evaluation Research Centre (AERC) at the University of Melbourne, adding: “From a research perspective, we …read more
Jun
18
2025
Australia’s intense focus on nationwide numeracy and literacy test scores such as NAPLAN has made almost no difference to students’ measurable literacy and numeracy over time and comes at the expense of “values education”, says Dr Chris Duncan, CEO of the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA). “I think the model has …read more
Jun
17
2025
A battery-pack system to power heavy trucks, potentially transforming a sector of the transport industry widely considered one of the most difficult to decarbonise, has been pioneered by Janus Electric Ltd. The battery packs fit on the side of prime movers in the place of diesel fuel tanks and they can be swapped for recharged …read more
Jun
16
2025
It took just 72 hours for Aspen Medical to set up a comprehensive clinic to support fleeing Afghan nationals after the Taliban overran Afghanistan in August 2021. The chaotic mass evacuation known as the Kabul Airlift began within days of the Taliban takeover, and the Australian department of foreign affairs (DFAT) contracted Aspen Medical to …read more
Jun
16
2025
Employers should consider taking the time to talk person to person with ex-service people, says former Lance Bombardier Peter Sanderson. Ex-service people understand how to work in teams; they know how to give and follow orders; and they understand the importance of task completion, he says. Importantly, ex-service people might not even know how their …read more
Jun
15
2025
Pharmacists now have to tread a fine line with parents who seek health advice on social media. Online parenting groups can foster a distrust of the health profession and so-called Big Pharma, and pharmacists have to take care to gently persuade parents to consider the benefits of evidence-based medicine. Reduced fact-checking and minimal content moderation …read more