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Computing gives us tools to preserve disappearing languages

  • Written by Steven Bird, Associate Professor in Computer Science, University of Melbourne
imageJamie Milpurr translates archived stories told by his grandfather Frank Ambidjambidj with help from his grandmother Margaret Marlingarr. The stories were told in Kun-barlang, a language spoken on Goulburn Island with 20 speakers remaining.Steven Bird, CC BY-NC

In 100 years, many of the world’s 7,000 languages could be extinct. Hundreds of...

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Dark Mofo and the affective power of a creative storm

  • Written by Svenja J. Kratz, Lecturer in Interdisciplinary Creative Practice, University of Tasmania
imageVisitors take in Cameron Robbins' Field Lines at the Museum of Old and New Art.Mona/Remi Chauvin

In the week leading up to Hobart’s Dark Mofo winter festival, I picture myself exploring events in a layered pupae of thermals, scarf, coat and gloves, still shivering, but awed by a spectacle of fire, light and unimaginable, dark, sensory wonder.

A...

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The Paris climate agreement needs coordinated carbon prices to be successful

  • Written by Ottmar Edenhofer, Deputy Director and Chief Economist, Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research
imageAll countries will have to reduce emissions. Coal image from www.shutterstock.com

The Paris climate agreement was an important success for climate diplomacy as nation states showed a strong will to cooperate on climate action.

But instead of imposing binding national emission targets, the Paris Agreement is based on voluntary country commitments...

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Queensland's 50-year vision for its southeast must take heed of all region's future needs

  • Written by Colin Russo, Futurist, University of the Sunshine Coast
imageThe Southeast Queensland Regional Plan’s revision will include engagement of the community.Colin Russo

The Queensland government recently launched a call for ideas to shape a revised plan for the future of Southeast Queensland.

The deputy premier and minister for infrastructure, local government and planning, Jackie Trad spoke recently of the...

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More Articles ...

  1. Election FactCheck: have 50,000 full-time jobs been lost this year and are over a million people underemployed?
  2. State of the states: 19 reasons why Turnbull and Shorten keep flying to Queensland
  3. State of the states: New South Wales and the issues resounding in bellwether seats
  4. New style lobbying: how GetUp! channels Australians' voices into politics
  5. Australian Christian Lobby: the rise and fall of the religious right
  6. Paralysed with fear: why do we freeze when frightened?
  7. Is coal the only way to deal with energy poverty in developing economies?
  8. Woolworths and Coles should heed simplicity lesson from Aldi
  9. Emancipated wenches in gaudy jewellery: the liberating bling of the goldfields
  10. How citizen scientists discovered a giant cluster of galaxies
  11. OECD figures are not what they seem in higher education
  12. The Indi Project: Soft voters say Turnbull better leader to handle a Trump presidency
  13. How do Labor and the Coalition differ on NBN policy?
  14. Full response from a Labor spokesman
  15. Dopey and grumpy: Maria Sharapova and WADA
  16. Health Check: how much salt is OK to eat?
  17. Election explainer: how are lower house votes counted? And what is 'the swing'?
  18. Business is waking up to the idea of deep learning
  19. Why are so few professional sport coaches from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities?
  20. Computers may be evolving but are they intelligent?
  21. Turnbull's election to lose
  22. Resettling refugees in Australia would not resume the people-smuggling trade
  23. Chemical messengers: how hormones change through menopause
  24. The hidden energy cost of smart homes
  25. Insider trading is greedy, not glamorous, and it hurts us all
  26. Venice Biennale: an exhausting, beautiful attempt to relinquish architecture
  27. Ancient asteroid impacts yield evidence for the nature of the early Earth
  28. Genes can have up to 80% influence on students' academic performance
  29. Labor would upgrade NBN to fibre-to-the-premises
  30. Xenophon threatens massive retaliation against any Lib-Lab deal against him
  31. ALP uses Bob Hawke to boost its campaigning on health
  32. Signals from the noise of urban innovation in the world's 'second-least-liveable' city
  33. Bill Shorten's savings package looks a little desperate
  34. Labor searches for savings amid family benefits reform
  35. Labor finds $16 billion more savings to put on the table
  36. White Bay rethink hinges on who looks out for the public interest in remaking Sydney
  37. Should we still be choosing fat-free over full-fat products?
  38. We know _why_ bacteria become resistant to antibiotics, but _how_ does this actually happen?
  39. The public should be concerned when academics must battle bureaucrats for academic freedom
  40. Removing social media hate speech within 24 hours sounds like a good idea, but...
  41. Election FactCheck: is it true no solely managed Commonwealth fishery is subject to overfishing?
  42. Cathedrals of light, cathedrals of ice, cathedrals of glass, cathedrals of bones
  43. It takes a village: law reform can't be the only response to online child abuse material
  44. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the Nick Xenophon Team
  45. City sparrows came to Australia via India
  46. Is small business really the engine room of Australia's economy?
  47. What are the implications of privatising land title offices?
  48. Speaking with: Deb Warr on poverty porn
  49. New technology offers hope for storing carbon dioxide underground
  50. Does tourism really suffer at sites listed as World Heritage In Danger?
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