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A Sankey chart showing the correlation between number of cars owned and number of car parking spaces allocated. Credit: Chris De Gruyter Experts are calling for planning policy to 'unbundle' parking spaces from apartments to reduce housing costs and alleviate street parking woes. A new RMIT University study surveyed more than 1,300…

Credit: Shutterstock Early this month, the Daily Mail published a story online implying three Chinese men taking photos at the Avalon Airshow in Melbourne were spies. After complaints and an open letter condemning the paper for racially profiling the Chinese communities and throwing around baseless accusations, the story disappeared from the Mail's site without explanation. …

Perpetrators of LGBTIQ+ identity abuse. Credit: Monash University (2023). DOI: 10.26180/22191319 A new Monash University report examines young Victorians' experiences of identity abuse in the context of family violence and finds it often occurs alongside other forms of abuse. The report published today reveals young people's…

Australians with an itch to gamble often face the problem of finding an online casino which accepts Australian players, or having to deal with long hours of travel to the closest gambling establishment they can locate. Luckily, there’s a simple solution to this problem. There are tons of amazing online casinos which accept Australians hidden in the rough, and we’ll be doing you the favour of listing 10 of the best new online casinos in Australia that are worth paying a visit to. List of the Top 10 New Online Casinos in…

Three data breaches in the second half of last year compromised the private information of millions of Australians in addition to the enormous Medibank and Optus cyberattacks that triggered public outrage.Figures released on Wednesday by the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner show five breaches affected between 1 million and 10 million Australians between July and December 2022.Criminal intrusions were responsible for most privacy breaches.Credit:iStockThe figures do not name the entities breached or the…

Main combined model inputs and outputs. (a) Fine-scale (10 km) resolution of the dominant movement corridors ('superhighways') derived from Crabtree et al. (2021). Credit: Quaternary Science Reviews (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.107971 New research has revealed that the process of 'peopling' the entire continent of Sahul—the combined mega continent that joined Australia with New Guinea when sea levels were much lower…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain A report commissioned by the Disability Royal Commission, and authored by La Trobe University researchers, has recommended a policy overhaul to ensure that all people living with cognitive disability are empowered to make decisions about their lives. The report recommends that "supported…

Contactless payment systems typically allow people to pay with a credit or debit card or a phone. Credit: Shutterstock With fewer people using public transport and more working from home due to the COVID pandemic, public transport agencies need to do everything they can to encourage more people to use their services. An essential step is to make the ticketing and payment process as easy as possible. That means it needs to…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Compared to the rest of the world, income inequality is not particularly high in Australia, nor is it getting much worse—until you include housing. Rising housing costs have dramatically widened the gap between what Australians on high and low incomes can afford. Rising home prices paired with…

Credit: Shutterstock Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) services have dramatically changed the landscape of personal lending, largely by being easy to access and not charging interest—thus avoiding national credit laws. In the 2021-22 financial year, according to data from the Reserve Bank of Australia, the number of active BNPL accounts in…