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Palliative care for children often involves treating the whole family

  • Written by: Anthony Herbert, Senior Lecturer, The University of Queensland
imagePalliative care specialists also need to pay attention to a sick child's siblings.Joshua Clay/Unsplash

This article is part of our series on demystifying palliative care, where experts explain the process of end-of-life care in Australia.


While we prefer not to think about it, death affects us all at some point. But that conversation is forced much...

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Higher education cuts will be felt in the classroom, not the lab

  • Written by: Michael Whelan, Lecturer in Environmental Science, Southern Cross University
imageTeaching-focused academics are often considered to be "lesser" academics.Shutterstock

In a recent Productivity Commission report, the bias of universities in favour of research over teaching was exposed.

The proposed higher education reform that would have seen A$380m cut from university funding was rejected by the Senate, but the word is that...

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Galapagos species are threatened by the very tourists who flock to see them

  • Written by: Veronica Toral-Granda, PhD candidate, Charles Darwin University
imageLife's not such a beach for Galapagos native species these days.shacharf/shutterstock

Native species are particularly vulnerable on islands, because when invaders such as rats arrive, the native species have nowhere else to go and may lack the ability to fend them off.

The main characteristic of an island is its isolation. Whether just off the coast...

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What should governments be doing about the rise of Artificial Intelligence?

  • Written by: David Glance, Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia
imageGovernment strategiesposteriori/Shutterstock

There is little doubt that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming almost every facet of human life. How far this transformation will go and what the full ramifications for society will be are still unknown but this hasn’t prevented people from making both optimistic and dire predictions.

Elon...

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