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Putting homes in high-risk areas is asking too much of firefighters

  • Written by: Mark Maund, PhD Candidate, School of Architecture and Built Environment, University of Newcastle

The impacts of the bushfires that are overwhelming emergency services in New South Wales and Queensland suggest houses are being built in areas where the risks are high. We rely heavily on emergency services to protect people and property, but strategic land-use planning can improve resilience and so help reduce the risk in the first place. This...

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If weight loss is your only goal for exercise, it's time to rethink your priorities

  • Written by: Evelyn Parr, Research Fellow in Exercise Metabolism and Nutrition, Mary MacKillop Institute for Health Research, Australian Catholic University
If weight loss is your only goal for exercise, it's time to rethink your prioritiesChoose an activity you enjoy so it's easier to stick to.Shutterstock

As an aesthetic society, we often demonise body fat and stigmatise people with lots of it. There’s often an assumption that people carrying excess weight don’t exercise and must be unhealthy.

But that’s not true: you can be fat and fit. In fact, as we age, low...

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how the ABC took Australian animals to the people

  • Written by: Gay Hawkins, Professor, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
how the ABC took Australian animals to the peopleThe 'natural sounds' of native animals like this koala had been heard on ABC Radio, but bringing them to TV audiences in the 1960s presented new and exciting challenges.abcarchives/flickr, CC BY-NC

Most of us will never see a platypus or a lyrebird in the wild, but it’s likely we’ve encountered them on television.

Our new research looks...

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Instead of showing leadership, Twitter pays lip service to the dangers of deep fakes

  • Written by: David Cook, Lecturer, Computer and Security Science,Edith Cowan University, Edith Cowan University
Instead of showing leadership, Twitter pays lip service to the dangers of deep fakesNeural networks can generate artificial representations of human faces, as well as realistic renderings of actual people.Shutterstock

Fake videos and doctored photographs, often based on events such as the Moon landing and supposed UFO appearances, have been the subject of fascination for decades.

Such imagery is often deep fake content, called so...

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  4. Government to inject economic stimulus by accelerating infrastructure spend
  5. Government makes changes to error-prone robo-debt collection
  6. Evacuating with a baby? Here's what to put in your emergency kit
  7. We modelled 4 scenarios for Australia's future. Economic growth alone can't deliver the goods
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  10. a dangerous new phase for the Hong Kong protests
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  13. What the termite mound 'snowmen' of the NT can tell us about human nature
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  17. Please, no more projections. What we need are predictions, and they're harder
  18. Green cement a step closer to being a game-changer for construction emissions
  19. Leaked documents on Uighur detention camps in China – an expert explains the key revelations
  20. Humans light 85% of bushfires, and we do virtually nothing to stop it
  21. Paul Keating attacks media for 'pious belchings' over China
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  32. Chinese embassy says Liberal critics Hastie and Paterson should "repent"
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