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Street vendors' self-help strategies highlight cities' neglect of how the other half survive

  • Written by: Redento B. Recio, Postdoctoral Research Fellow - Informal Urbanism (InfUr-) Hub, University of Melbourne
Street vendors' self-help strategies highlight cities' neglect of how the other half surviveWhile street vendors work in plain sight, they are "off the map" in the eyes of city officials and planners.Redento Recio, Author provided

About 2.5 billion people, or half of the global labour force, work in the informal economy, the International Labour Organisation estimates. In developing Asian countries, more than 50% of the urban labour force...

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Nora Heysen, more than her father's daughter

  • Written by: Joanna Mendelssohn, Honorary Associate Professor, Art & Design: UNSW Australia. Editor in Chief, Design and Art of Australia Online, UNSW
Nora Heysen, more than her father's daughterNora Heysen, Self-portrait 1934 oil on canvas 43.1 x 36.3 cm National Portrait Gallery, Canberra Purchased 1999 © Lou Klepac

When Nora Heysen’s portrait of Madame Elink Schuurman was awarded the 1938 Archibald Prize, the Sydney Sun’s headline was Girl Makes History, Girl artist takes Archibald Prize.

The story began, “Miss...

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Your car is more likely to be hacked by your mechanic than a terrorist

  • Written by: Richard Matthews, Lecturer Entrepreneurship, Commercialisation and Innovation Centre | PhD Candidate in Image Forensics and Cyber | Councillor, University of Adelaide
Your car is more likely to be hacked by your mechanic than a terroristLego Mechanic might look sweet and innocent, but what’s that smile really hiding?Flickr/Jeff Eaton, CC BY-NC-SA

When it comes to car hacking, you should be more worried about dodgy dealers than one-off hackers with criminal intent.

Hollywood would have us believe our cars are extremely vulnerable to hackers. A hacker remotely logs into the...

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