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Harvest season is also peak time for conflict in rural societies

Do harvest season spikes in agricultural income and conflict in rural Africa and Asia present an opportunity to adjust peacekeeping and aid efforts?

VR is transforming how buildings are made

We no longer need to rely on the individual capability of people to read plans or imagine the spaces based on the pictures or verbal descriptions.

Buy Now Pay Later – what are the pitfalls?

Around a quarter of Australian adults have used a Buy Now, Pay Later service. What does the industry’s increasing influence mean for younger and at-risk consumers?

Taking no for an answer: how governments can keep citizens engaged on digital platforms

How should “citizen-sourcing” initiatives be designed, to enable positive interactions and transparency?

Australian consumers support better protections for gig workers

What is the quality, rather than the quantity, of the jobs that we wish to tolerate as a society?

Online scams are about to get more sophisticated than Nigerian princes

ChatGPT’s “evil cousin” WormGPT will allow bad actors to more accurately mimic the real deal in attempts to swindle and deceive people.

Food security starts with food sovereignty

The UN’s Zero Hunger goal faces challenges in West Papua, where palm oil plantations are erasing Indigenous foodways – could a food sovereignty framework help balance development, culture, and sustainability?

The demographic change of the century

This century’s shifting population patterns are the fuel that will power significant economic change.

Looking for employees with high productivity and low turnover? Hire a refugee.

Research shows refugees make motivated, loyal employees with lower turnover, but are employers overlooking this untapped talent due to assumptions and perceived barriers?