Australian researchers are calling on Facebook to boost its consultation with minority groups and better train its in-house moderators in response to online hate speech in the Asia Pacific region.
Researchers are urging key decision makers and sector stakeholders to adopt 16 recommendations to help close the educational divide and improve Australia’s treatment of children and young people experiencing disadvantage.
Africa is often referred to as the cradle of humankind – the birthplace of our species, Homo sapiens. There is evidence of the development of early symbolic behaviours such as pigment use and perforated shell ornaments in Africa, but so far most of what we know about the development of complex social behaviours such as burial and mourning has come from Eurasia.
How and when people first settled Sahul – or the Pleistocene supercontinent of Australia, New Guinea and Tasmania that formed during times of low sea level – is a topic of major debate in the fields of archaeology and human evolution.
The discovery of unexpected artefacts in Africa’s Kalahari Basin has challenged conventional knowledge about the beginnings of human culture and innovation.
AusStage, the world-leading digital humanities platform preserving and showcasing the history of Australian live performance, has been welcomed to the prestigious UNESCO Memory of the World register.
Researchers are calling for parents and kids to be involved in a national study into early childhood sleeping patterns at The University of Queensland.
A new era in mental health care in Australia has arrived after the announcement that a $10 million national research translation centre is to be established at The University of Melbourne, aiming to improve health outcomes for Australians with mental illness.
Anyone who’s slaved over a school sausage sizzle may not be surprised to learn that parents and friends raise an average $752 a year for every state school student in Australia.
But University of Queensland education expert Dr Anna Hogan says some important sociological questions are sizzling alongside all those sausages.
