Low-income customers who qualify for subsidised rates are five times more likely to use shared e-scooters and e-bikes for daily travel. People with disabilities also value them.
It appears to have become more prevalent, visible, and possibly also more politicised in post-pandemic times, as general trust in governments and mainstream media declines.
Vegemite first hit Australian supermarket shelves in 1923, but it took a while to find its feet.
Recreating workplace experiences through simulation is an effective learning tool, one in which people can practise how they might respond to sometimes difficult situations.
A five-million-year-old fossil that sat in a Melbourne museum for more than a century has rewritten the history of turtles in prehistoric Australia’s tropical climate.
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?".
Urban local governments take planetary health into their own hands by encouraging local and sustainable eating.
Victoria’s Labor Party flipped and flopped in its support of Melbourne’s first medically supervised injecting room, depending on what was politically expedient and popular at the time.
The collapse of Afghanistan’s government, the American military withdrawal and failure of its mission put women’s safety and freedoms at grave risk.
Research is shining a light on why communities’ perceptions of their social fabric aren't the reality on the ground.
A new research paper outlines how we can cool our urban spaces – and what will happen if we don’t.
Public-space cameras are meant to make us feel safer, but women don’t always see them that way.
Like the US, Australia’s "massage parlours" are reliant on the prostitution, fetishisation and trafficking of Asian women.
The recent controversy embroiling the Richmond injecting room is overshadowing its positive community impact.
The city's rapid growth presents some problems for its urban forest strategy.
With Melbourne’s population continuing to boom, urban planners and academics have a vision for the city to become a network of connected communities where people will be able to walk or cycle to amenities.
A Victorian site could hold the key to proving people lived in Australia 120,000 years ago, twice as long as first thought.
Footpaths are a valuable space for everyday social activity and urban life, but their role is often overlooked in planning urban and public spaces.
Uncovering real experiences of gender in public places, from sports facilities to public transport, community services and infrastructure, to simply walking down the street.
Creative manufacturing is surviving in urban areas, but the redevelopment of inner-city industrial zones threatens its existence.
Melbourne’s defective city democracy is on show again with an election for lord mayor following the forced resignation of Robert Doyle.
Sustainability and ethical production are becoming central to fashion design and manufacturing.
The rich history of Melbourne pop music is being documented – along with the cultural conditions that gave rise to it.
It's not just empty laneways and dark corners where girls and women feel threatened.
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