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25 February, 2025 | Creative Industries, Real Focus feature stories

Political inaction and big-tech’s reluctance to protect users leave Australians vulnerable to a murky world of digital misinformation going into the election.

24 February, 2025 | Creative Industries, Real Focus feature stories

18 February, 2025 | Law, Republished from The Conversation

19 February, 2025 | Engineering, Real Focus feature stories

Movie depictions of stillsuits, out-of-control Teslas and drone fleet illusions provoke our imaginations and drive discussion and debate.

7 February, 2025 | Business, Republished from The Conversation

10 February, 2025 | Creative Industries, Real Focus feature stories

The internet has enhanced children’s lives in many ways but it was not designed with children in mind.

28 January, 2025 | Creative Industries, Republished from The Conversation

4 February, 2025 | Business, Justice, Republished from The Conversation

20 January, 2025 | Justice, Real Focus feature stories

Well, perhaps “king” of the MAGA movement… But President-Elect Donald Trump’s political comeback is a remarkable feat, and it has serious implications for Australia.

9 January, 2025 | Creative Industries, Republished from The Conversation

7 January, 2025 | Health, Real Focus feature stories

Professor Anne Chang AM has led the way in setting the international standard for the treatment of chronic cough in children.

27 December, 2024 | Creative Industries, Republished from The Conversation

18 December, 2024 | Law, Republished from The Conversation

11 December, 2024 | Engineering, Republished from The Conversation

18 December, 2024 | Creative Industries, Real Focus feature stories

17 December, 2024 | Business, Real Focus feature stories

Ever fancier and elaborate, creative Christmas ads are eagerly anticipated and have become a genre in their own right. And Santa is no longer the star attraction.

16 December, 2024 | Business, Real Focus feature stories

Why retail, fast food and distribution workers are in the firing line and what can be done to stop it.

27 November, 2024 | Creative Industries, Republished from The Conversation

21 November, 2024 | Creative Industries, Republished from The Conversation

3 December, 2024 | Business, Real Focus feature stories

From intelligent homes to robotaxis - AI isn't just the future, it's already here ... and getting smarter by the day.

6 November, 2024 | Creative Industries, Republished from The Conversation

4 November, 2024 | Creative Industries, Republished from The Conversation

4 November, 2024 | Business, Republished from The Conversation

1 November, 2024 | Creative Industries, Republished from The Conversation

31 October, 2024 | Law, Republished from The Conversation

1 November, 2024 | Health, Real Focus feature stories

Internationally renowned microbial ecologist Professor Gene Tyson reveals how our gut microbiome will impact future medical treatment and why he doesn't take probiotics.

31 October, 2024 | Science, Republished from The Conversation

19 November, 2024 | Engineering, Real Focus feature stories

Cleaner, greener water treatment technologies are transforming wastewater into valuable resources, with huge environmental and economic benefits.

18 October, 2024 | Science, Republished from The Conversation

17 October, 2024 | Science, Republished from The Conversation

17 October, 2024 | Health, Republished from The Conversation

8 October, 2024 | Science, Republished from The Conversation

7 October, 2024 | Business, Republished from The Conversation

30 September, 2024 | Business, Real Focus feature stories

Modern work is an evolving ecosystem, with robotics, generative AI, the gig economy and the rise of digital platforms impacting careers and workplaces.

28 October, 2024 | Creative Industries, Real Focus feature stories

Nursing homes don’t have to be dull, uninviting spaces. There’s a new wave of designers transforming aged care and health with better buildings, community interaction, technology and the creative arts.

19 September, 2024 | Creative Industries, Republished from The Conversation

13 September, 2024 | Creative Industries, Republished from The Conversation

11 September, 2024 | Creative Industries, Republished from The Conversation

5 September, 2024 | Creative Industries, Republished from The Conversation

4 September, 2024 | Business, Republished from The Conversation

3 September, 2024 | Justice, Republished from The Conversation

2 September, 2024 | Creative Industries, Republished from The Conversation

Authorities in Brazil, the country with the world’s fifth largest number of internet users, have banned the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter).

29 August, 2024 | Justice, Republished from The Conversation

12 August, 2024 | Health, Republished from The Conversation

19 August, 2024 | Creative Industries, Republished from The Conversation

Artificial intelligence (AI) prophets and newsmongers are forecasting the end of the generative AI hype, with talk of an impending catastrophic “model collapse”.

14 October, 2024 | Education, Real Focus feature stories

Professor Grace Sarra has spent more than 30 years making a difference in Indigenous and low socio-economic education.

7 August, 2024 | Creative Industries, Republished from The Conversation

6 August, 2024 | Creative Industries, Republished from The Conversation

1 August, 2024 | Education, Republished from The Conversation

2 August, 2024 | Justice, Republished from The Conversation

29 July, 2024 | Engineering, Education, Republished from The Conversation

30 July, 2024 | Creative Industries, Republished from The Conversation

16 July, 2024 | Creative Industries, Republished from The Conversation

17 July, 2024 | Education, Republished from The Conversation

Students in our study reported some of their teachers talk too much. Why is this a problem? What can teachers do instead?

2 July, 2024 | Creative Industries, Republished from The Conversation

27 June, 2024 | Health, Republished from The Conversation

Here are the top six antihistamines myths – busted.

15 August, 2024 | Science, Real Focus feature stories

They live in a secret underground world, hidden down the cracks of the hardened clay soil of outback Queensland – small as a mouse, cute as a bilby and sometimes as ferocious as a tiger.

10 July, 2024 | Health, Real Focus feature stories

Associate Professor Zephanie Tyack, internationally recognised for pioneering burns treatment for children, has built her healthcare career by following one simple maxim: make things better for people.

2 May, 2024 | Justice, Republished from The Conversation

25 May, 2024 | Law, Republished from The Conversation

The NT government has invited views on access to voluntary assisted dying. But whether it should include access for those with dementia is not so clear cut.

17 May, 2024 | Education, Republished from The Conversation

There is a strong body of evidence about what works in Indigenous education. But budgets seem to keep ignoring research that says we need to listen to Indigenous people.

27 June, 2024 | Engineering, Real Focus feature stories

From high school experiments to cutting-edge technology, Dr Tobias Fischer has travelled the globe in his quest to change the future face of robotics.

6 May, 2024 | Education, Health, Republished from The Conversation

The federal government has announced a Commonwealth Prac Payment to support selected groups of students doing mandatory work placements. Will it do enough to end ‘placement poverty’?

23 May, 2024 | Engineering, Health, Real Focus feature stories

Associate Professor Paige Little has made it her life’s work to help children with spinal deformities. She also champions disadvantaged teens to pursue a career in STEM.

2 September, 2024 | Health, Real Focus feature stories

Distinguished Professor Lyn Griffiths is a 'DNA detective', tracking down genetic links to human ailments to lead to personalised treatment. She also uses next-generation genome sequencing to identify the remains of missing Australian soldiers.

29 April, 2024 | Health, Business, Republished from The Conversation

While employees would probably tell their boss about a stomach upset, many who menstruate and feel unwell as a consequence every month, are unlikely to talk about their difficult periods.

10 April, 2024 | Law, Business, Republished from The Conversation

Australia’s big supermarkets have been put on notice. A Treasury-commissioned review recommends making the existing voluntary food and grocery code of conduct mandatory. But will this be enough to change the way supermarkets operate in Australia?

8 April, 2024 | Business, Republished from The Conversation

Treasurer Jim Chalmers says it will make big multinationals pay their fair share. But in broader forums, Australia is showing itself to be less keen to make multinationals pay up.

3 May, 2024 | Justice, Real Focus feature stories

The devastating impact of fraud has far-reaching consequences. QUT’s Professor Cassandra Cross has made it her mission to give victims of fraud a voice and advocate for change.

2 May, 2024 | Justice, Real Focus feature stories

QUT researcher Professor Michael Flood has spent decades advocating for gender equality, and engaging men and boys in domestic and sexual violence prevention. He’s put the notion of healthy masculinities on the map, shaping the public agenda in Australia.

4 May, 2024 | Law, Real Focus feature stories

QUT’s health law experts Professors Lindy Willmott and Ben White have played a key role in end-of-life law in Australia. Their extraordinary 20-year-plus professional relationship has helped give 98 per cent of Australians the choice of a better death.

31 January, 2024 | Law, Republished from The Conversation

Compared to adults, child workers experience high rates of workplace injuries, bullying and sexual harassment, wage theft and unpredictable hours.

2 February, 2024 | Science, Republished from The Conversation

The effects of introduced megafauna on plants can drive negative public sentiment towards the species. It’s time to change how we think of these animals.

5 February, 2024 | Health, Justice, Republished from The Conversation

While there are signs that adult perpetration of child sexual abuse is declining, new research shows adolescent perpetration is rising.

8 January, 2024 | Health, Republished from The Conversation

Research shows lactic acid has nothing to do with it. The truth is far more interesting, but also a bit more complex.

27 February, 2024 | Science, Republished from The Conversation

In February 2024, the American company Intuitive Machines, in collaboration with NASA, celebrated “America’s return to the Moon” with a successful landing of its Odysseus spacecraft.

18 April, 2024 | Engineering, Health, Real Focus feature stories

A research project seeks to cut the development time for new life-saving drugs by adding an extra dimension to the process.

16 October, 2023 | Education, Republished from The Conversation

An alarming number of children are suspended every year, often at young ages, for minor reasons.

28 September, 2023 | Science, Creative Industries, Republished from The Conversation

It could – if we don’t start to value and protect the traits that make us human.

1 January, 2022 | Health, Republished from The Conversation

The best way to reduce the risk of transmission is to reduce the concentration of airborne virus available to be inhaled.

1 February, 2023 | Science, Engineering, Republished from The Conversation

With generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as ChatGPT and StableDiffusion being the talk of the town right now, it might feel like we’ve taken a giant leap closer to a sci-fi reality where AIs are physical entities all around us.

12 June, 2024 | Health, Real Focus feature stories

QUT researcher Professor Narelle Haworth isn’t just studying road safety, she’s living it with her daily bicycle commute into the office.

17 April, 2024 | Health, Real Focus feature stories

One of Australia’s most iconic animals is under threat, with chlamydial disease decimating koala populations in south-east Queensland. Professor Ken Beagley is among those leading the fight to ensure these beloved creatures not only survive, but thrive.

16 April, 2024 | Science, Real Focus feature stories

Saving Australia’s environment starts with understanding it.
A research project using acoustics and AI shows us how.