Independence pay: Gas industry-funded research at the CSIRO
Gas industry funding and direct involvement in research committees of GISERA, the research body that conducts research on social and environmental impacts of CSG, is potentially compromising the...
View ArticleBio-Savvy: How Australia can build a stronger biotechnology industry
Still relatively young, biotech presents a unique opportunity for governments who invest early and aggressively in this industry to transform their economies. As a future-facing industry, biotech will...
View ArticleImmersed in the future: a roadmap of existing and emerging technology for...
This roadmap highlights, in an accessible way, some existing and emerging digital technologies and their potential to create deeper and authentic learning opportunities in school and post-school...
View ArticleEnter the Internet of Things: And we thought the news was disrupted before
This article by Stuart Waite, ex-News Corp. executive, board member of the Internet of Things Alliance Australia and CEO of consulting firm Timpani, asks what does the Internet of Things (IoT) mean to...
View ArticleData availability and use: draft report
The Productivity Commission is recommending a major overhaul of Australia's data policy framework, including the introduction of a Comprehensive Right to give people more control over their data....
View ArticleMEDI-VATION: ‘Health Innovation Communities’ for Medicare payment and service...
Abstract Health Innovation Communities (HICs) would essentially constitute an Australian ‘Silicon Valley’ for health – hubs for research and development within which the proverbial 1000 flowers will...
View ArticleWeakest links: cyber governance and the threat to mid-sized enterprises
Overview The governance of cyber security has become a pressing challenge to both the public and private sector. Currently, cyber crime is the second most-reported economic crime, affecting 32 per cent...
View ArticleBuilding a resilient cyber security eco-system: national and regional...
Overview The global economy is a complex cyber ecosystem. The movement of goods and services across cities, nations and the world assumes secure and assured access to the internet. Many processes are...
View ArticleForensic science and human rights in Afghanistan
For this episode of Sub Rosa, Kate Grealy interviewed Zabi Mazoori, who coordinates the Afghanistan project for Physicians for Human Rights’ International Forensic Program. In 2001, he fled persecution...
View ArticleDeep crustal seismic reflection profiling: Australia 1978–2015
Overview Deep Crustal Seismic Reflection Profiling: Australia 1978–2015 presents the full suite of reflection profiles penetrating the whole crust carried our in Australia by Geoscience Australia and...
View ArticleAustralia’s health and medical research workforce: expert people providing...
Over a number of years, ASMR has observed, with deep concern, the erosion of Australia’s health and medical research workforce. A large proportion of this workforce is supported by the National Health...
View ArticleThe global climate 2011-2015
Executive Summary The five-year period from 2011 to 2015 has been the warmest five-year period on record globally, with 2015 being the warmest year on record to date.(1) The period 2011–2015 was also...
View ArticleSecurity of critical infrastructure control systems for trains
Overview Passenger train services for the Victorian public are an essential service, much like electricity, water, gas and port services. Train services rely on a range of systems and equipment,...
View ArticleFacebook can no longer be ‘I didn’t do it’ boy of global media
In this article, Emily Bell, the director at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia Journalism School discusses the need for Facebook to take greater responsibility for its media publishing...
View ArticleSA doesn’t need a nuclear plebiscite – Weatherill just needs to make a decision
South Australian Premier Jay Weatherill’s announcement of a non-binding public vote, no earlier than 2018, on his proposed high-level nuclear waste storage facility looks like an act of political...
View ArticleTelecommunications Industry Ombudsman 2016 annual report
The Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman (TIO) finds itself in a telecommunications landscape that is going through significant change, with new converging technologies and the roll out of major...
View ArticleInside the information society: upsetting and resetting standards, rules and...
David Souter discusses some of the key topics explored at the Internet Governance Forum that was held on 17 November in London, including: the role that social media plays in young people’s...
View Article2016 Census: issues of trust
On 31 August 2016, the Senate referred the 2016 Census to the Senate Economics References Committee for inquiry and report by 24 November 2016. The terms of reference include the following matters: The...
View ArticleReview of the events surrounding the 2016 eCensus
The Australian Government’s new paradigm of online engagement and services for Australians is not coming. It’s already here. Government’s response to the eCensus events of 9 August 2016 provides an...
View ArticleChanges to contract laws could give small farming businesses more control of...
New laws that are designed to protect small businesses from falling victim to unfair contract terms may help tip the balance of power back in favour of smaller farmers, especially when it comes to...
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