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Why regional universities are at risk of going under

  • Written by: Geoff Hanmer, Adjunct Lecturer in Architecture, UNSW
Why regional universities are at risk of going underCapital city universities can use income from foreign students to maintain their buildings. Their regional cousins are struggling.Shutterstock

Unless the federal government changes its funding policy for universities, less well-off ones, particularly regional universities, are going to fail.

In Britain, it is already happening. Several bankruptcies...

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Why Godzilla is the perfect monster for our age of environmental destruction

  • Written by: Julian CH Lee, Associate Professor, Global Studies, RMIT University
Why Godzilla is the perfect monster for our age of environmental destructionA still from the new film Godzilla: King of the Monsters, which opens this week. In a time of environmental destruction, Godzilla is the perfect monster to represent the consequences of humanity's actions. Warner Bros/IMDB

The monsters that stalk us in popular culture embody fears about our contemporary human condition. As a new Godzilla film opens...

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Will we ever agree to just one set of rules on the ethical development of artificial intelligence?

  • Written by: Michael Guihot, Senior Lecturer in Law, Queensland University of Technology
Will we ever agree to just one set of rules on the ethical development of artificial intelligence?Everyone has their own idea on the ethical use of AI, but can we get a global consensus?Shutterstock/EtiAmmos

Australia is among 42 countries that last week signed up to a new set of policy guidelines for the development of artificial intelligence (AI) systems.

Yet Australia has its own draft guidelines for ethics in AI out for public consultation,...

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