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Episode 95: Can We Create a Better Reality?

While AI and robotics reshape our reality, experts explore how these emerging tools could be used to create a more equitable future – from healthcare breakthroughs to Indigenous-led innovation.

Podcast: What Happens Next?

Gender-based violence: Follow the evidence

Australian researchers urge prioritising evidence-based solutions and incorporating Indigenous experiences to tackle rising gender-based violence cases.

Politics and society

Listening to Indigenous peoples’ knowledge

It’s time to ditch colonial thinking and listen to the wisdom of Indigenous peoples to advance health and wellbeing, and to forge a sustainable planetary future.

Medicine and health

Intergenerational learning: Challenging stereotypes and supporting social connection

There’s value of bringing together older members of the community, Indigenous artists, and younger generations to engage in art, movement, learning, and being together.

Education

Applying an ‘Indigenous paradigm’ to tackle rheumatic heart disease

What began as a heart research project looking at ways to understand a potentially fatal but preventable disease has evolved from the biomedical into one more in keeping with an Indigenous perspective.

Medicine and health

In one family’s story, a case for the Voice to Parliament

Jacinta Walsh’s great grandmother navigated oppressive policies her entire life, and didn’t have a public voice. Now, however, through the family’s storytelling, she does.

Politics and society

Will the government’s action plans to end violence against women and children be enough?

While the actions outlined in the plans are admirable, achieving the set targets will require a significant increase in urgency and funding.

Politics and society

Star man: From a childhood dream to an Indigenous academy shooting for space

Professor Chris Lawrence’s passion for Indigenous achievement has come full circle.

Technology and engineering

Harrowing stories of murdered Indigenous women, and the failure of police to act

New research shows Indigenous women experiencing intimate partner violence had engaged with police to help them. However, many didn’t receive the support that potentially could have saved their lives.

Politics and society

Why the LGBTIQA+ community should support the Voice to Parliament

A response of bigotry or hatred is common for people identifying as an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person, just as it is for people coming out as gay, bi, trans or queer.

Politics and society

Older women are doing remarkable things – it’s time for the putdowns to end

The stereotype of the old woman is anxious, dependent, useless, and a burden. But interviews with older women found them contributing to society in myriad ways.

Medicine and health

What AERO’s report of writing development in Australia doesn’t want to talk about

The Australian Educational Research Organisation’s failure to acknowledge NAPLAN’s flaws, nor draw on significant existing research, reflects a lack of respect for English teachers.

Education

Episode 72: Is Australia Behind in the Critical Minerals Race?

On a new episode of Monash University’s ‘What Happens Next?’ podcast, we examine whether mining and sustainability can go hand-in-hand as we transition to a decarbonised future,

What Happens Next?

From Bangalore to Warragul, aiding the mental health of those most in need

For Dr Anton Isaacs, initial thoughts of surgery specialisation turned into a 20-year journey that’s taken him into the heart of vulnerable communities in Australia and India.

Medicine and health

Episode 71: Can We Save Endangered Languages?

On a new episode of Monash University's "What Happens Next?" podcast, learn about efforts to preserve languages, and how our words can build a more inclusive society.

Podcast: What Happens Next?

Episode 70: What Do We Lose When Languages Die?

Only a few Indigenous languages remain strong in modern Australia. On a new episode of Monash University's "What Happens Next?" podcast, linguists and human rights advocates outline what we've lost.

Podcast: What Happens Next?

How early Australian fairytales displaced Aboriginal people with mythical creatures

From “Moth” people who kidnapped children, to threatening “Desert Fairies” in loincloths, early Australian fairytales helped sanitise white settlement, expressing colonial fears.

Politics and society

Separated at birth: Racism and unconscious bias in perinatal health services

Indigenous babies are still being removed from their parents and placed into out-of-home care at alarmingly high rates. A new alliance is hoping to change that.

Medicine and health

The way we talk about First Nations issues is striking

An analysis of 82 million words has revealed that the relative attention Australia’s news and opinion pieces gave to First Nations peoples began to grow steadily from about 2005, with a huge peak in 2007.

Politics and society

Human rights and election campaigns: Never the twain shall meet?

It’s time to ask our politicians the hard questions about what they intend to do to strengthen human rights protections if elected to government.

Politics and society

Episode 54: Racism: It Stops With...? Part I

Moderated by Dr Susan Carland, the panel discussion ‘Racism: It stops with…..?’, brought together some of the foremost leaders working to understand and battle racism today. Listen to part one of the conversation now.

Podcast: What Happens Next?

Episode 53: A More Welcoming Country?

Building more welcoming communities takes work. Meet the experts at the coalface of making immigration and diversity work in Australia in this episode of the University's podcast, "What Happens Next?".

Podcast: What Happens Next?

Episode 50: Is Australia Classist?

Find out how privilege and disparate levels of access to basic resources such as education are contributing to social inequality in Australia – threatening the egalitarian ideals of 'the land of the fair go’.

Podcast: What Happens Next?

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Episode 95: Can We Create a Better Reality?

Gender-based violence: Follow the evidence

Listening to Indigenous peoples’ knowledge

Intergenerational learning: Challenging stereotypes and supporting social connection

Applying an ‘Indigenous paradigm’ to tackle rheumatic heart disease

In one family’s story, a case for the Voice to Parliament

Will the government’s action plans to end violence against women and children be enough?

Star man: From a childhood dream to an Indigenous academy shooting for space

Harrowing stories of murdered Indigenous women, and the failure of police to act

Why the LGBTIQA+ community should support the Voice to Parliament

Older women are doing remarkable things – it’s time for the putdowns to end

What AERO’s report of writing development in Australia doesn’t want to talk about

Episode 72: Is Australia Behind in the Critical Minerals Race?

From Bangalore to Warragul, aiding the mental health of those most in need

Episode 71: Can We Save Endangered Languages?

Episode 70: What Do We Lose When Languages Die?

How early Australian fairytales displaced Aboriginal people with mythical creatures

Separated at birth: Racism and unconscious bias in perinatal health services

The way we talk about First Nations issues is striking

Human rights and election campaigns: Never the twain shall meet?

Episode 54: Racism: It Stops With...? Part I

Episode 53: A More Welcoming Country?

Episode 50: Is Australia Classist?