Feb
25
2026
Ensuring the thoughts and preferences of autistic people are at the heart of every policy and research decision is a central tenet at La Trobe University’s Olga Tennyson Autism Research Centre. The first Australian research centre dedicated to autism, OTARC opened in 2008, and there has always been an unwavering focus on establishing what the …read more
Feb
25
2026
Clean and green microalgae production systems can use sunlight to capture carbon dioxide and convert it into a wide range of products including proteins, oils, pigments, bioplastics, nanomaterials, novel carbon-storing building biomaterials, and even pharmaceuticals. Following the global success of solar power and solar heating, research on this transformational “third way” of harnessing the sun’s …read more
Feb
25
2026
Years of missed tax returns, financial abuse, bewilderment, anxiety: clients of Charles Darwin University’s Free Tax Clinic arrive with all manner of financial problems. The clinic assists Northern Territory residents who need help with their tax affairs and can’t afford professional tax advice. One of the clinic’s clients hadn’t filed a tax return for 10 …read more
Nov
26
2025
Big inter-disciplinary projects are the new face of successful university research – collaborations by researchers from a range of fields working together to find solutions or to better understand the fundamental problems. These collaborations might include leading university researchers from all the STEM disciplines working with lawyers or historians or social science academics.
Nov
17
2025
Skincare brand Boring Without You has steered clear of the advertising and marketing traditions long dominant in the cosmetic industry, instead embracing the cheeky and eye-catching. One brand product, a “hydrating milk serum”, is marketed with the line ‘Make Me Wet’. Founder and CEO Davey Rooney has sported pale blue nail-polish in promotional images. “Beauty …read more
Nov
17
2025
Still hand-made after 13 years of manufacture, Loco Love chocolates are free of all gluten, dairy or refined sugars. The range includes Maple, Macadamia Caramel, Classic Chewy Caramel and newcomer Pistachio Mylk Praline. The Byron Bay-based company now produces as many as 120,000 individual chocolate bars each week and continues to have trouble meeting ever-increasing …read more
Nov
4
2025
In this new age of AI-enabled warfare, Australia’s Defence Department needs to rethink the way it procures military equipment, says Professor Toby Walsh, Scientia Professor of Artificial Intelligence at the University of NSW’s Department of Computer Science and Engineering. “The ADF typically puts out a tender, a specification, and throws a lot of money at …read more
Oct
29
2025
Lawrence Kusz was inspired to investigate ways to expose malice on social media when his niece, who has Down Syndrome, was savagely attacked by cyber-bullies. “It was 2021, and I was lecturing at the University of Queensland at the time, and I saw first-hand how limited the existing tools were,” he says. “I wanted to …read more
Oct
27
2025
Boarding is an “all in” experience at the Anglican Church Grammar School, says headmaster, Dr Alan Campbell. Better known as Churchie, the day and boarding school for boys in Brisbane doesn’t offer weekly boarding or flexible arrangements of that type, Campbell adds, because the school’s policy is to remain with the “traditional model of a …read more
Oct
25
2025
Most of the 180 boys who board at Marist College Ashgrove come from farming families in rural districts, says principal Michael Newman, and only a dozen or so of the school’s boarders are from city-based families in Brisbane. These boys board on a weekly basis – they leave the Brisbane school on Friday and return …read more