AI development is currently held by a small number of companies. Public vigilance can help ensure they stick to ethical use of the technology.
A focus on creating and strengthening positive images of immigrants, rather than instilling blame and mistrust, will be more conducive to social benefits for society.
Three Monash University youth ambassadors played important roles at the 28th Conference of the Parties (COP), the world’s most significant global forum for climate action.
It was the comic strip and movies that unleashed the legendary Australian comedian, and many of his characters, on the world.
The “invisible” nature of interpreters’ roles means many of the challenges they face aren’t widely acknowledged.
Studying and working in an English-speaking environment as a non-native speaker poses several communication challenges.
Colloquialisms such as barbie and smoko are like accents – part of the glue that brings together Australian English speakers.
Forcing people to pass an English test in order to become Australian citizens creates a range of practical and ethical problems, while producing little benefit for migrants and their host society.
The Australian summer has provided its own colourful vocabulary over the years, from Spooners to speedos and bush walks to hikes.
Why a workers’ rebellion in 19th-century England is relevant in the age of data extraction, gig labour, and management by algorithm.
With so much recent focus on how women are treated, we need to look first at how we use language. And for a long time, it’s been used to belittle and silence women.
Medicine's linguistic history in English is rich indeed, peppered with borrowings from French, but the Old English renderings retain a certain charm.
Australia’s first female Indigenous ambassador, Julie-Ann Guivarra, is now focusing her diplomatic lens on gender equality.
"Karen", the name that has become code for boorish, entitled behaviour, joins a long history of names being appropriated for various purposes – often unkindly.
Times of crisis have always changed our slang, with the help of a little black humour. Coronavirus is no exception.
Our post-coronavirus pandemic future will be very different to the one we anticipated, as it reshapes relationships, governments, business, and broader society.
A language is said to become extinct when its last native speaker dies. Often that final breath also draws into death the identity ascribed by Indigenous people to their natural world – its plants, animals and landscape.
We may no longer say ‘shiver me timbers’, but we still use plenty of pirate words for other things.
The Aussie accent has been lambasted as "lazy", but this isn't supported by the facts.
While the disease is on the rise, it's preventable – that includes not only considering how much we eat, but the kind of foods we consume.
How simple acts of kindness can significantly improve the experience and outcomes for cancer patients.
Professor Tina Brock has come a long way in her journey as a pharmacy education innovator.
Irish influence on Australian English is much like the influence of the Irish on Australians themselves — less than you’d expect on the surface, but everywhere once you start looking.
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