Artificial intelligence and human rights in Australia
Brett Solomon & Lindsey Andersen
Although artificial intelligence is already mainstream, experts have only recently started looking into the short- and long-term impacts of AI on human rights. Recently in 2018, artificial intelligence was a ...
Artificial intelligence and mental health
Grant Blashki & Simon Lock
When we began to reflect on the role of artificial intelligence (AI) for mental health care, immediately there were a whole range of concerns that leapt out at us. How ...
Artificial intelligence in healthcare
Khoa Cao and Luke Oakden-Rayner
It may surprise you, but the first dreams of artificial intelligence did not arise in the basements of an MIT engineering lab, or the cosy rooms of an Oxford college ...
Australia can nurture growth and prosperity through biology
Merlin Crossley, Andrew Cockburn & Marguerite Evans-Galea
One of the 20th century’s most famous scientists, physicist Ernest Rutherford, explained: ‘When we have found how the nucleus of atoms is built up we shall have found the greatest ...
Australia’s future depends on a strong science focus today
Ian Chubb
We are often told in public commentary that the Australian economy is in transition — that we need to use our talents and skills to cope with changes in demand ...
Australia’s got ICT talent — how do we make the most of it?
Brian Anderson, David Glance & Toby Walsh
It is finally dawning on private and public sectors that information and communications technology (ICT) is an enabling technology. ICT is relevant to companies — whether making drugs, mining coal, ...
Ian Chubb
Australia’s future depends on a strong science focus today
We are often told in public commentary that the Australian economy is in transition — that we need to use our talents and skills to ...
Merlin Crossley, Andrew Cockburn & Marguerite Evans-Galea
Australia can nurture growth and prosperity through biology
One of the 20th century’s most famous scientists, physicist Ernest Rutherford, explained: ‘When we have found how the nucleus of atoms is built up we ...
Martin Delatycki
Genetic screening
The explosion of knowledge in relation to the genetic basis of multiple conditions means that screening for the risk of preventable disease as well as ...
Martin Delatycki & Grant Blashki
Introduction to human genetics
No field of medicine has changed in so dramatic a fashion as has been the case with human genetics. It is only 40 years ago ...
Peter C. Doherty, Fiona Stanley & Michael Good
A healthy future? Let’s put medical science under the microscope
The past is prologue, or so we should hope for biomedical research. Australia has a proud history with four Nobel Prizes for Physiology or Medicine ...
Marguerite V. Evans-Galea
Gene therapy – personalised medicine in action
We all begin life as a single cell that divides and develops until we are a fully grown human being. Inside this cell, our DNA ...