Is too much screen time inhibiting students’ sleep?
La Trobe University, Savannah Pocock
May 11, 2021
Screen-related sleep deprivation can cause myriad health and wellbeing concerns, experts say.
Former AFL players take punt at the NFL
La Trobe University, Sean Dillon
May 7, 2021
Former AFL players are using their ball-kicking talents to make the transition to the NFL as professional punters.
Australian swim star aims to blitz Tokyo 2020
Murdoch University, Andrew Amos
May 6, 2021
Commonwealth Games gold medallist Rowan Crothers doesn’t just want to win at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics in August - he wants to smash the world record. The 23-year-old swim star is aiming to break the 49 second barrier in the 100m freestyle and it's a feat no one has yet achieved. He says...
Crimes and bugs land Murdoch researcher acclaim
Murdoch University, Andrew Amos
May 14, 2021
While Paola Magni has helped solve some of the grizzliest crimes, she says her mission to empower women in science is one of her toughest jobs yet. The Murdoch University forensic scientist has been short-listed for the gong of West Australian of the Year in the professionals category. Dr Magni is one of five people in the shortlist, which celebrates...
Pop-up bike lanes: A cure for Melbourne congestion?
La Trobe University, Laura Misale
May 13, 2021
There has been a local push to make pop-up "trial" lanes permanent.
New “greener” mining discovery sucks metals up
Murdoch University, Taylor Renouf
May 6, 2021
A new “environmentally friendly” mining technique that pulls heavy metals out of the ground using electrical currents has been discovered by scientists. University of Western Australia researchers say they have developed a way to extract copper from the ground by pumping in a liquid chemical to dissolve ore and then using electrodes, like...
Curtin University, Charlotte Spraggs
April 30, 2021
Two months after the Wooroloo fires in WA, the firefighters are recovering mentally.
Young love puts girl behind bars: Somaliland’s juvenile justice system
Deakin University, Mona Liban
April 25, 2021
Mona Liban meets the children who are being locked up while government officials take their time trying to update Somaliland's youth detention system.
Standing sentinel: The vanishing giants of the Central Highlands
University of Melbourne, Amalyah Hart
April 16, 2021
The tree looms above us. The air smells and tastes like eucalyptus, sharp and full. Everyone is silent, as people often are when staring at giant things. The Kalatha Giant is a monumental mountain ash that lives in the valley after which she is named, up in the Central Highlands of Victoria near a town called Toolangi. Indigenous names pattern this landscape like topography on a map, laying meaning over place. Toolangi is aptly named after the local Taungurung word for "tall trees", and Kalatha is prodigiously tall, reaching 65 metres high and with a girth of 14 metres. It’s estimated she’s been growing for 400 years, even as the ecosystem that nourishes her has shrunk in size and density, as the shockwaves of white settlement have coursed across this landscape, upending a culture at least 60,000 years in the making. The young woman next to me, seemingly moved to rapture...
Medevac refugees’ fight for freedom not over
La Trobe University, Pam Kiriakidis
May 5, 2021
More than a hundred refugees have been released from hotel detention across Australia, but their future is uncertain.
Digital influencers: distorting the culture of consent?
La Trobe University, Ashleigh Matosevic
May 5, 2021
Several social media influencers have been the focus of misconduct allegations in recent weeks.
Security company parts ways with Chinese firm over human rights
La Trobe University, Phoebe Bowen
May 5, 2021
"It has come at a cost to our business, but it does allow us to sleep at night."
The Black Lives Matter movement has awakened many pressing conversations concerning underlying issues...
Overcrowding and social isolation leave prisoners vulnerable to COVID-19 but NSW Corrective Services...
