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.

Earth’s boring billion

A study led by researchers from the University of Sydney and the University of Adelaide has revealed how the breakup of an ancient supercontinent 1.5 billion years ago transformed Earth’s surface environments, paving the way for the emergence of complex life.

Balancing talent and technology

Australia’s largest accounting body, CPA Australia, is urging businesses not to cut junior finance and accounting roles in favour of artificial intelligence, warning that an overreliance on technology could undermine long-term competitiveness.

The lonely planet

Interventions designed to reduce loneliness can be effective, but do not yet offer a complete solution to what is becoming a worldwide public health problem, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.

Only a third of Australia’s forests remain

New analysis from the Australian Conservation Foundation has highlighted the enormous scale of deforestation in Australia, exacerbated by ‘deforestation loopholes’ and weak nature laws that provide special carve outs to industry and allow rampant destruction of the bush.