Unearthing Australia’s first crocodiles

An international team has uncovered the oldest crocodilian eggshells ever found in Australia, offering a fascinating glimpse into life in the deep past of the continent.

Detecting deep fake audio

Researchers from Australia’s national science agency CSIRO, Federation University Australia and RMIT University have developed a method to improve the detection of audio deepfakes.

Bait and switch

Researchers have found that up to a third of conservation projects are abandoned or defunded after the fanfare of their launch, undermining hopes of achieving global biodiversity and carbon targets.

Name badges help protect retail staff from customer abuse

A QUT team has found that simple personalised “under badges” worn by frontline retail staff can make them more relatable and significantly reduce verbal abuse from customers.

Aged care in rural Australia needs digital health tech

Digital health technologies can help Australia’s rural health and aged care systems cut costs, increase efficiency and connect staff, residents and patients to other services.

Unlocking the potential of generative AI

Generative artificial intelligence can automate routine tasks, freeing employees to focus on more strategic and creative work, while reducing costs and accelerating time to market but new research from Edith Cowan University highlights the factors hindering its adoption.

Preventative care for productivity gains

As Australian health spending falls to pre-pandemic levels, increasing investment in prevention would be good for the economy, good for communities, and good for our overstretched healthcare system.

AI’s ‘doorman fallacy’

CEOs are stampeding to replace staff with AI, but despite the lofty promises of the tech companies, many companies aren’t seeing the payoff. Data on productivity gains from AI use is murky at best, and many companies are suffering costly implementation failures.

GAP Summit to debate intergenerational issues at NSW Parliament House

This week, Global Access Partners is convening senior representatives from business, government, academia and the nonprofit sector at NSW Parliament House to address one of Australia’s most pressing long-term challenges – the economic, social and policy implications of shifting demographics and increasing longevity.

A room without mirrors

Chairman Xi’s fear of humiliation explains China’s projection of strength abroad and the Communist Party’s obsession with control at home, but the CCP’s inability to admit fault and deal with internal problems will doom it to collapse, like every authoritarian regime before it.

Turn up the sun

UNSW researchers are working towards a new generation of solar technology that could increase efficiency by turning one particle of light into two packets of energy.

Pimp your photosynthesis

Scientists at the University of Sydney and Australian National University are working to improve the efficiency of crop photosynthesis through bio-engineering.