July 2020

By Tania Sourdin and Bin Li An online app called Amica is now using artificial intelligence to help separating couples make parenting arrangements and divide their assets.

Join transformative leader Professor John Fischetti on 28 July 2020 as he explores the paradoxes of the COVID-19 pandemic in the first of our Looking Ahead Lectures.

Newcastle China Week 2020 has developed the theme of “Wildlife Sustainability” and will be held in a virtual world through running this online photographic exhibition this year.

Laboratory tests conducted at the University of Newcastle and Hunter Medical Research Institute have shown that a modified form of medicinal cannabis can kill or inhibit cancer cells without impacting normal cells, revealing its potential as a treatment rather than simply a relief medication.

A study and review of early adopters in Indian universities and colleges

CARE-P executive member Professor Shirley Randell AO has been liaising with both, Dr James Gashumba, Vice Chancellor of Rwanda Polytechnic, and Eng Pascal Gatabazi, the Director General of the Workforce Development Authority, who are the key leaders driving Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) developments in Rwanda.

Professor Tania Sourdin on legal systems in the post-COVID world.

The University of Newcastle’s Professor Craig Wheeler and entrepreneur David Bull jointly developed a new capability to monitor the performance and condition of idlers used in the conveyor systems that play a vital role in our mining industry. That technology is now the basis of a licensing deal recently completed between the University and New South Wales-based company MineSensor Services Pty Ltd, (MineSensor).

Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, two-thirds of Australian university students were reported to be living below the poverty line, with an average annual income of $18,000. In addition, 15% of full time domestic students regularly went without food or other necessities to make ends meet, which increased to 25% for Indigenous students. In light of pandemic-related job losses and rising housing stress disproportionately affecting young Australians, it is likely these figures have only worsened.

By Amy Maguire and Dani LarkinGunnai-Kurnai and Gunditjmara woman Lidia Thorpe was recently elected by Greens party members to replace the former party leader, Richard Di Natale, as senator for Victoria. Thorpe is the first Indigenous woman to represent the Greens in federal parliament. She brings a welcome diversity of experiences and perspectives.