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28 March 2019
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22 August 2018
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8 August 2017

Offering Exclusive Study Options for Darwin Students

Former Emmaus College Rockhampton student, Claire Cranitch is leading the charge to have more and more Queensland schoolgirls involved in Physics, in her role as Griffith University’s event coordinator of the national Growing Tall Poppies program.

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16 July 2008

Exploring notes from da Vinci to Darwin

The various uses of notebooks throughout history will be explored at the ___Notebooks and Note-takers: da Vinci to Darwin___ symposium...

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28 April 2024

Rising costs can encourage a better kind of tourism

The rising costs of living and airfares point to long-haul travel being affordable for fewer people. It also might re-shape the way we think about tourism.

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9 October 2023
Oration 2

Brighter Future for All Oration: The Perfectibility of Opportunity

As a civic institution, Griffith University is committed to deep engagement with our local communities and unlocking knowledge and foresight from influential thinkers and leaders. On 4 October 2023, we proudly presented the inaugural Brighter Future for All Oration at Brisbane City Hall with The Honorable Dr Jim Chalmers MP, Treasurer of Australia and one of our most distinguished alumni.

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10 July 2023
Professor Michael Petraglia with skull

Unearthing humanity’s origin story

Professor Michael Petraglia has always been drawn to the distant past. Growing up, he pored over copies of National Geographic and books about Ancient Egypt that his family – particularly his older sister – would gift him every Christmas. So it seems only natural that he would pursue a career in archaeology that’s taken him around the world, from teaching at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge in the UK to directing field projects in Africa and Asia that have reframed our understanding of ancient human migration. Professor Petraglia, now the Director of Griffith University’s Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution (ARCHE), and he talked to Griffith Review Editor Carody Culver about the origin story of our species – which, like humanity itself, is constantly evolving. This is an excerpt.

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9 May 2022

Switching to a feral pig diet helped boost croc numbers

A growing feral pig population supported the conservation success story of Australia’s largest carnivore, the estuarine crocodile.

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16 December 2021
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12 October 2021

The state of storytelling with David Malouf, Melissa Lucashenko and Trent Dalton

This conversation sees Kerry O'Brien speak with acclaimed authors David Malouf, Melissa Lucashenko and Trent Dalton about Australia’s evolving storytelling culture.

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