Oct
16
2025
Women comprise about 20.9 per cent of full-time Australian defence force personnel and there is no expectation that gender parity will ever be reached. Head of Military Personnel Rear Admiral Tish Van Stralen says while there are important targets for increasing women’s representation, with a goal of at least 25 per cent women in the …read more
Oct
16
2025
As Australia grapples with increasing geo-political uncertainty and rising transnational crime, the Australian Signals Directorate is “probably one of the busiest arms of government”, says Director-General Abigail Bradshaw. Sifting through a never-ceasing storm of foreign electronic communications to gather intelligence, ASD computer experts monitor electronic communications important to Australia and its allies and track down …read more
Sep
3
2025
Few Australian business leaders feel ready to take advantage of artificial intelligence and adoption of the technology has been slow and often reluctant, according to a roundtable of experts. At the same time, criminals and trolls have taken to AI with alacrity – spawning a barrage of fraud and deep fakes. Recent research by digital …read more
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
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
Apr
9
2025
Australia needs “clever” defence systems and equipment to protect the nation’s interests over a huge landmass and expanse of ocean, says Chief Defence Scientist Tanya Monro. “We can’t just assume that we can build scale that will deter an adversary,” she tells The Australian. “So we have to do clever things.” Hundreds of defence research …read more
Sep
16
2024
Rather than having a mid-career break to take a six-month or year-long executive education course, upskilling and reskilling is now considered a decades-long endeavour, spanning an entire working life and potentially consisting of multiple short courses. Executive education directors say successful executives are constantly looking to learn and understand more about their professional fields and how …read more
Aug
10
2024
Well, quite a few things, actually – from patient simulations to drudge tasks, AI can complement rather than compete with human care. Artificial intelligence (AI) will transform pharmacy practice in Australia. Already powering comprehensive pharmacy educational tools in an Australian world-first, AI can relieve pharmacists of routine administration tasks and enable detailed tracking of patients and medicines.
Jun
19
2024
Massive problems have beset the Snowy 2.0 pumped storage hydro program, an ambitious renewable energy project intended to become a vast reservoir of stored energy. One of the 2000-tonne tunnel-boring machines, known as Florence or Flo, recently got stuck in very hard rock and high-pressure water jets were deployed to set the machine free. Last year, …read more
Jun
19
2024
When ChatGPT burst on to computer screens around the world in late November 2022, Michelle Dennis knew the artificial intelligence chatbot was a game-changer. “It very quickly became apparent it would have an impact on classes,” says Dennis, head of digital at Haileybury independent school. “We knew we needed to have a policy before school year started.”