Abra Pressler

Australia’s R&D planning needs to boost our Asia capability. Australia is falling behind likeminded nations such as the UK, the US, and even Canada in trade and investment with our larger immediate neighbours. This underperformance is costly for human and strategic reasons, and because nations such as Indonesia are registering strong economic growth, with a

Cultural and creative industries (the arts, design and architecture, screen and radio, advertising and marketing, publishing and media, and creative software and digital content) forms a dynamic industrial continuum based on HASS-led, STEM supported knowledge inputs. The creative services component is a high growth, high income sector which meets ubiquitous consumer and company demand with

Indigenous leaders and Fellows tell us that their priority is to return Indigenous knowledge to communities, who can then decide how to use it – for cultural repair and restoration, for creative and cultural industries, for tourism on their terms.[1] The exhibition Songlines: Tracking the Seven Sisters is an Australian R&D success, currently touring Europe

Digital information services are the infrastructure of the knowledge economy (and of representative democracy). Arguably, trust and signalling on expertise are as important for the knowledge economy as the road, sea and air rules are for the physical economy. Attitudes towards expertise and trust in science will set the confident knowledge economies apart. Authoritarian states

While the clinical promise is considerable, large and growing cohorts of people standing to benefit, realising the full therapeutic potential of BCIs requires more than technical success. Patients often report significant improvements in mood, motor control, or cognitive function, but these gains are frequently accompanied by profound psychological disturbances, including altered self-perception, emotional volatility, and

It has been over 50 years since the publication of Roger Covell’s 1967 book, Australia’s Music: Themes of a New Society, which was described as both a scholarly account of Australian music history but also “an entertaining social history”. It’s a book, Associate Professor Amanda Harris FAHA says the editors had in mind when planning

Developed as a place for scholars, students, activists, journalists, policymakers, professionals, practitioners, and non-specialists to connect and share knowledge, Cambridge University Press’ journal, Public Humanities, launched in 2024, seeks to disrupt the traditional publishing format and bring new research to the public sphere. Edited by Professor Jeffrey R. Wilson from Harvard University and Dr Zoe

Forms of slavery were present in the Philippines archipelago before the Spanish became a colonial power in the islands in the late sixteenth-century. While some sixteenth century Spanish laws prohibited the enslavement of Indigenous peoples, the practice continued well into the eighteenth century. Tens of thousands of unfree peoples from across Asia and the Pacific