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The online environment offers a wealth of opportunities, but it is also an increasingly treacherous place, where cyber bullying, abuse, and explicit content are all too common. Since 2015, eSafety has dealt with more than 61,000 complaints concerning illegal or restricted content and, last year alone, 29.1 million reports of materials involving child sexual exploitation…
29 Nov 2022, by Amy SarcevicEnergy & Utilities
Our energy sector is at the precipice of a ‘gold rush’ as the offshore wind market takes off in Australia. As this new industry expands, it is vital that developers choose the location of their projects wisely. This is a point Gareth Ellery from Global Maritime emphasised at the Australian Offshore Wind Conference when discussing…
22 Nov 2022, by [email protected]Business
Defence & Security
With cyber criminals stepping up their assaults on Australian corporations - and the privacy regulator soon to receive new powers – the prospect of a data breach has become acutely worrying for business leaders in recent weeks. While ransomware attacks have been on an upward trend for several decades, the recent coverage of Optus and…
21 Nov 2022, by Amy SarcevicHealthcare
Shifting Australia’s healthcare focus from ‘treatment’ to ‘prevention’ may be our best hope in tackling a national chronic disease crisis, according to public health expert, Dr Sandro Demaio of VicHealth. In 2021, almost half of Australians (47 percent) were estimated to have one or more chronic conditions; and this figure is set to rise as…
8 Nov 2022, by Amy SarcevicHealthcare
Infrastructure
The poor financial performance and subsequent closure of 20 rural hospitals in the United States in 2020 was a wake-up call for hospitals around the world – many of which are facing similar challenges around staffing, budgets, and supply chains. However for architectural company, HDR, the trend also invited an opportunity: to investigate the impact…
7 Nov 2022, by Amy SarcevicEducation
Infrastructure
Accurately forecasting demand for schools is an increasingly complex (yet ostensibly simple) task. While birth rates give some indication of how many children there will be, they can’t tell us exactly which school they will attend. Nor do they take into account how many children may enter the country with their migrant families. In fact,…
1 Nov 2022, by Amy Sarcevic