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Federal Election 2025 - ¹ú²ú̽»¨ experts available

Australians will head to the polls on May 3 - with tax cuts, cost-of-living and energy likely to be major points of discussion during a five-week federal election campaign.

1 April 2025
Parliament House

Crisis mode: Why some businesses thrive in times of trouble

Research led by ¹ú²ú̽»¨ has explained why some businesses not only survive crises like recessions, pandemics or natural disasters, but thrive, with periods of extreme growth.

1 April 2025
A photo of a green sapling growing out of scorched earth.
Person holding cigarettes in one hand and a vape in the other

¹ú²ú̽»¨ researchers have found smoking rates have declined twice as fast in New Zealand as in Australia, suggesting less restrictive regulation on vaping could improve public health outcomes.

12 February 2025
Students sit at a table in a library in Italy as one takes notes

Cultural artefacts and historic sites around the world are being threatened by organised crime groups who traffic the items for lucrative profits, a team of researchers from ¹ú²ú̽»¨ found.

12 February 2025
Sick child in a hospital bed with a drip

¹ú²ú̽»¨ research using 'natural killer' cells may lead to the first new treatment for a devastating childhood cancer in 40 years.

12 February 2025
An erupting volcano at night.

Research on Australian volcanoes shows how tiny crystals formed inside volcanoes offer clues about the formation of rare earth deposits and how we can find more of them.

11 February 2025
A man sitting on his couch wearing virtual reality goggles. He appears to be viewing a sports event from inside the stadium.

Internationally renowned sports marketing expert Rick Burton will make the case for Brisbane to be the technology Games, when he discusses how sport, business and government could revolutionise fan engagement over the next decade.

11 February 2025
A doctor looks over notes with a pen in hand

¹ú²ú̽»¨ researchers discovered that nearly 70 per cent of suspected frontotemporal dementia patients ultimately did not have the disease in a study aimed at identifying factors that contribute to misdiagnosis.

11 February 2025
A black and white photo of a syringe being injected into an egg from a uterus.

A ¹ú²ú̽»¨-led team has successfully produced the first kangaroo embryos through in vitro fertilisation (IVF), a crucial jump towards saving other marsupial species from extinction.

6 February 2025
First-year medical students with Professor Riitta Partanen.

The first cohort of “home grown’’ doctors, trained exclusively in the Central Queensland and Wide Bay regions, has begun first-year studies through The University of Queensland’s Rural Clinical School.

5 February 2025
A photograph of the night sky with the Milky Way galaxy stretching out.

A team of international researchers has developed an innovative approach to uncover the secrets of dark matter in the cosmos.

5 February 2025

A University of Queensland (¹ú²ú̽»¨) researcher Dr Debottam Sinha has received $450,000 from the Passe & Williams Foundation to improve health outcomes for patients with a rare form of cancer.

4 February 2025
A group of people standing in a laboratory wearing white lab coats.

A first-of-its-kind program will encourage university students from diverse disciplines to ‘test-drive’ a career in Australia’s agriculture industry.

29 January 2025