The year 2022 is the centenary of the publication of the novel Ulysses by author James Joyce. This writer has not read Joyce’s very long novel depicting the events concerning the main protagonist Leopold Bloom in a single day (June ...
More »ANU study finds retail industry completely transformed by technology, Covid-19
Australian retail workers are being left behind as rapid shifts in technology reshape the industry, a new study has found. Retail workers, who make up about 11 per cent of the Australian workforce, are being subjected to increased surveillance, a ...
More »Academic institutions are a ripe target for cybercriminals, here are 3 reasons why: opinion
Data breaches can happen to any organisation of any size or industry. But, academic institutions have been a primary target for cybercriminals and malicious actors as seen most recently in the Deakin University breach. Of course, the primary goal for ...
More »How digital technologies and biometrics can streamline the student experience: opinion
The education industry needs to urgently respond to the changing nature of student expectations. While many students are returning to their studies with more of a digital-first mindset, there has also been a significant drop in international students returning to Australian ...
More »Five pitfalls of adopting the block mode of teaching, and strategies to overcome them: opinion
Block Mode of Teaching (BMT) is a model of teaching where subjects are offered in shorter periods of time. In the traditional semester mode of teaching, four units are normally offered in a 12 week window. In the BMT usually ...
More »(Non)reforms of the apex courts of Australia and the United States: comments and laments
In the aftermath of the overruling of the landmark Roe v Wade abortion ruling by the United States Supreme Court there has been anger, dismay, frustration and protests in the United States and many other countries, including Australia. ‘The shape ...
More »Five judges of the US Supreme Court are egregiously enforcing their political and religious agendas – opinion
The landmark ruling Roe v Wade 410 US 113 (1973), which in essence protects the right of pregnant women to abortion in the first trimester of the pregnancy, was overruled by at least five right-wing, political and activist judges of ...
More »On the move: June–July
DAVIS TOP PUBLIC SERVANT Former UniMelb VC Glynn Davis has taken on the position of secretary of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. Most recently the CEO of the Paul Ramsay Foundation, Davis has spent time at the head ...
More »Thoughts on the anniversary of the publication of Copernicus’ heliocentric theory
May 24 2022 was the 479th anniversary of the death of astronomer and scientist Nicolas Copernicus (19 February 1473-24 May 1543) the modern espouser and pioneer of the heliocentric theory. An apocryphal or probably true story is that as the ...
More »‘Tests of viability’ of foetus in US constitutional cases and ‘Wednesbury unreasonableness’
On 24 June 2022 a majority of the members of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Dobbs v Jackson Women Health Organization overruled a 49-year-old ruling Roe v Wade, also decided by a different bench of the ...
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