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Australia Post can't turn back. Here's why

  • Written by Flavio Romero Macau, Senior Lecturer in Supply Chain Management and Global Logistics, Edith Cowan University
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Hand-written letters and posted bills are disappearing, and they were vanishing well before the latest slump.

Australia Post says between 2007 and 2019 the volume of personally addressed letters more than halved (over a period in which Australia’s population grew 20%).

Over the past year, between May 2019 and May 2020, they...

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Finding beauty in code – 5 ways digital poetry combines human and computer languages

  • Written by David Thomas Henry Wright, Associate Professor, Nagoya University
Finding beauty in code – 5 ways digital poetry combines human and computer languagesJoshua Sortino/Unsplash, CC BY

Since lockdown, everyone has had to rely heavily on digital technologies: be it Zoom work meetings and lengthy email chains, gaming and streaming services for entertainment, or social media platforms to organise everything from groceries to protests. Human existence is now permeated by non-human computer language.

This...

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Councils often ignore residents on social media. How can digital platforms ensure they have a say in planning?

  • Written by Bhavna Middha, Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
Councils often ignore residents on social media. How can digital platforms ensure they have a say in planning?Jakob Owens/Unsplash

Local governments across Australia are mandated to consult their residents on urban development issues. They are increasingly using digital platforms to do this.

Early findings from our international research project, Democratic Urban Development in the Digital Age, are that the use of digital technologies for community...

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Social media platforms need to do more to stop junk food marketers targeting children

  • Written by Gary Sacks, Associate Professor, Deakin University
Social media platforms need to do more to stop junk food marketers targeting childrenShutterstock

In Australia and around the world, junk food companies are targeting children on social media.

In our new study, we found most major social media platforms have restrictions on the advertising of tobacco, alcohol and gambling to children.

But there are hardly any such restrictions in place around junk food.

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