What can be done to make the living conditions of detained refugees more humane?
08 Feb 2022
Novak Djokovic’s stay at a detention hotel highlights how things should change, migration experts say.
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What can be done to make the living conditions of detained refugees more humane?
08 Feb 2022
Novak Djokovic’s stay at a detention hotel highlights how things should change, migration experts say.
The COVIDSafe app was designed to help contact tracers. Here’s what really happened
07 Feb 2022
Instead of making the lives of contact tracers easier, analysis shows the expensive technology missed contacts and added to their workload.
Outlaw culture: Aboriginal women and the power of resistance
07 Feb 2022
From bushrangers to community matriarchs, Aboriginal women have found many ways to empower themselves and their people through acts of resistance – within and outside of the law.
Dance in the arts: choreographing collaboration in museums
07 Feb 2022
An artist-focused research collaboration aims to develop protocols for engaging with choreographic works in art institutions.
UNSW research projects shortlisted for Trailblazer program
07 Feb 2022
Two UNSW research commercialisation initiatives could share in $242.7 million in federal government funding under the new Trailblazer Universities Program.
What’s wrong with Australian mortgages? They’re fixed for shareholders, not home owners
04 Feb 2022
There’s no reason why Australian lenders couldn’t offer 30-year fixed-rate mortgages, as they do in the US.
Russia’s war in the Ukraine is complex and probably already underway
04 Feb 2022
The outcome of Russia’s operation against Ukraine will be decided by factors that reach far beyond commonly assumed ideas of combat.
How machine learning can clean up our cities
03 Feb 2022
Computational design can identify greater efficiencies across the built environment, enabling us to create more sustainable cities.
Queensland’s vast private conservation areas are dangerously exposed to mining
02 Feb 2022
New research finds Queensland’s laws fail to protect private conservation areas from the hidden impacts of mining on groundwater.
DNA sample analysis times dramatically reduced thanks to new file format
02 Feb 2022
Nanopore sequence analysis can now be done more than 30 times faster, providing quicker and better specialised treatments for patients with cancer and other diseases.