Sep
3
2025
The global arms race between cybersecurity experts and scammers is still raging and increased digital literacy is needed to ensure all Australians can securely navigate digital systems, according to experts at an Optus and Australian Financial Review roundtable. Developments such as voice-activated technology could make digital navigation easier for Australians who lacked digital literacy, said …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
More than 2,000 full-time and part-time Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students are now studying at the University of Newcastle in NSW, the highest number enrolled at any university in Australia. The university’s Wollotuka Institute has been a haven for Indigenous students for 42 years, making it one of the oldest institutes of this type …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
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