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STUDY | Researchers from The University of Queensland (UQ) Business School examined the range of capabilities needed to overcome the challenges in successfully converting waste into a resource.

JOURNAL ARTICLE | The Human Rights Act breathes new life into old ethical duties by reminding us of the importance of candour and fidelity. Equally, frank advice and collaboration between lawyers and policy officers breathe life into the ambition of the Human Rights Act.

JOURNAL ARTICLE | Law scholars identify and map the return of the states and territories — and the retreat of the Commonwealth — in Indigenous law reform and argue for the Commonwealth government to meaningfully engage with the Uluru Statement from the Heart. 

STUDY | Women are now more likely to pursue a university degree than men, but the proportion of women graduating in economics has decreased or remained stagnant over the past two decades.

ARTICLE | Even short-term exposure to air pollution impacts our brain performance and capacity to work, according to researchers from The University of Queensland and Carnegie Mellon University.

More than 50 outstanding researchers, teachers and professional staff have received 2021 BEL Employee Excellence Awards.

ARTICLE | Meet the UQ lecturer teaching students to develop mobile applications to help those in need.

ARTICLE | Professor John Quiggin discusses Australia's feasibility of reaching the net-zero target by 2050

ARTICLE | Professor Brenda Gannon conducted a longitudinal study of Queensland families and found women on lower incomes are more likely to suffer with pre and post-natal depression.

ARTICLE | The Australian Defence Department has identified “trusted autonomous systems” as a priority area of work for strategic research, but Dr Eve Massingham says there are many international and domestic legal questions yet unanswered.

ARTICLE | UQ's Professor John Quiggin argues alongside Richard Holden (UNSW) and Steven Hamilton (ANU) that the Delta variant makes the National Plan's modelling obsolete and more flexibility is needed.

STUDY | Associate Professor Richard Robinson researches Queensland’s COVID damaged tourism industry and discusses the operators' struggles to find workers.

ARTICLE | What legal standards apply to the use of authonomous weapons? How is legal responsibility and accountability distributed between the State, its agents, designers and manufacturers?

ARTICLE | Australia had no counter-terrorism laws before 9/11 and now we have 92. UQ's Dr Rebecca Ananian-Welsh and Griffith University's Keiran Hardy examine if the new laws have actually made us safer.

ARTICLE | While the UN urged Australia to end the use of coal by 2030, export prices are rising. Economics Professor John Quiggin argues that despite the demand of global markets, decarbonising our own backyard is achievable.

JOURNAL ARTICLE | Our researchers Dr Marcin Sowa and Prof Luke Connelly, in collaboration with colleagues from the Faculty of Medicine, have identified a new opportunity for keeping Australians out of the hospital.

ARTICLE | Professor John Quiggin explores how the framing of vaccine passports can affect whether Australians see them as a carrot or stick.

ARTICLE | UQ experts weigh in on legislation expected to be introduced into Queensland Parliament in September 2021.

ARTICLE | UQ Associate Professor Paul Harpur and Peter D. Blanck of Syracuse University argue that university students have had to be vaccinated against other diseases, and COVID-19 is no different.

ARTICLE | Professor John Quiggin argues that the divestment movement has been a key factor in BHP getting out of the carbon-based fuel industry.