The 2024-2025 Australian federal budget addressed current cost-of-living issues but lacked any real clarity around future planning. It has raised concerns about the long-term impacts of budget measures on future generations.
Sexual harassment and gender discrimination plague Australian universities, with a rise in incidents over the past 5 years. Women, mostly affected, face everyday sexism, impacting careers and mental health. Despite efforts, reporting remains low. Griffith University's Gender Equality Research Network (GERN) research highlights these issues, advocating for broad, education-driven solutions, urging universities to commit to change and address these systemic problems head-on.
Survey finds most Australians accept climate change is happening, but only minority think it's a serious problem.
In this instalment of Griffith University’s Better Future for All series, journalist Kerry O’Brien explores the future and impact of AI with leading global thinker Professor Toby Walsh.
We often hear the adage ‘I’ll believe it when I see it.’ But how can this sentiment help those trying to imagine a different future? For business leaders wanting to innovate –and bring others on that journey – visualising the path ahead can be a way to better identify what needs to change and how to get there.
Professor Caitlin Byrne suggests that leaders on both sides of this bilateral relationship will be carefully considering next steps in the context of their shifting domestic narratives and global ambitions.
The dominant language around great economic transitions of modern times suggests they have been caused by leaps in technological innovation. These normative narratives suggest that it was the leveraging of new technologies that opened the way for the subsequent reshaping of our economies, and our societies. But if we look more closely at the major ‘ages of transition’, it is clear that they didn’t just follow on from purely technological innovation.
Study finds three out of four Australians concerned about climate change and support policies to limit potential impacts.
As we head into the third year of the pandemic, debates continue to rage over the ethics of vaccine mandates, restrictions on civil liberties, the limits of government power and the inequitable distribution of vaccines globally. With so much disagreement over questions like these, has the pandemic fundamentally changed the way we think about ethics?
Given the failure of governments to raise the level of ambition needed to avert the climate crisis, what have businesses done in response and what can businesses do to compensate for the failure of governments?
