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How can you prove it? With maths!
Daryl Holland | July 3, 2019Finding a mathematical proof is a long, difficult process – involving trial-and-error, grunt work and the occasional eureka moment.
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Enter the dragon
Robert Saunders | July 3, 2019Hit television series like Game of Thrones and Lost are more than just an escape from reality, they can mirror the political conflicts we see in the real world and perhaps, by shaping people’s perceptions, even influence them.
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HR is failing workers with intellectual disabilities
Open Forum | July 3, 2019Experts are calling for a major rethink of how businesses manage workers with intellectual disabilities, with new research showing they’re often left behind in the workplace.
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Microgravity research offers a niche for Australian rockets
Gail Iles | July 2, 2019Thanks to the proximity of northern Australia to the equator and expertise in ground station operation, Australia has an opportunity to carve out a niche in launching sounding rockets to conduct microgravity research.
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We must do more than wave the flag in the South China Sea
Sam Fairall-Lee | July 2, 2019All hopes of China becoming a ‘responsible stakeholder’ now dead and that nation’s capacity to constrain our maritime freedom of movement will only grow larger. Without action, we will soon find ourselves strategically reliant on the benevolence of an expansionist dictatorship.
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Did the Osaka G20 mark the end of economic order?
Shiro Armstrong | July 2, 2019The Osaka G20 summit may yet be remembered in history as the moment the global rules based order was lost.
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The new work mindset in South West Victoria
Kelly Fawcett | July 1, 2019FYA’s New Work Mindset research report analysed 2.7 million Australian job advertisements and found seven job clusters whose skills are more closely related and portable than previously thought.
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Medical ‘selfies’ can boost patient care
Open Forum | July 1, 2019Taking medical ‘selfies’ and sharing them with a doctor empowers and reassures healthcare consumers, and can improve doctor-patient relationships, a two-part QUT-led study has found.
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Narrow VET training sells students short
Andrew Trounson | July 1, 2019The crisis in Australia’s training sector means TAFEs need to develop their own courses tailored to an unpredictable future.
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The fine lines of climate skepticism
Peter Ellerton | June 30, 2019The battle lines in the climate debate appear clearly defined, but not all ‘disbelievers’ are the same and more nuance from both sides of the argument would help progress to be made.
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From construction to confrontation in the “Indo-Pacific”
Graeme Dobell | June 30, 2019‘Indo-Pacific’ has shifted from a geographic construct to an arena for mounting contest—and the label for a US strategy.
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New discovery may help cut agricultural methane emissions
Open Forum | June 30, 2019An international research collaboration has made an important discovery in the quest to help lower global agricultural methane emissions.
