Before being confronted with the reality of a disaster, police and emergency services need to be prepared as well as they can be under realistic conditions, an important role for the University of Technology Sydney’s Australian Facility for Taphonomic Experimental Research, or AFTER.

Read more

A harmful algal bloom of Karenia mikimotoi made dozens of surfers sick and killed seadragons, fish and octopuses on two South Australian beaches.

Read more

Marine scientists are calling for beachgoers who find weedy seadragons washed up on the shore to photograph them and send details to researchers at UTS.

Read more

With the United States and China fighting over access to critical minerals used in tech and defence, Australia finds itself in a unique strategic position.

Read more

Successive governments have reviewed the deal to lease the port to a Chinese company and found no cause for concern. Both major parties have made a sudden about-face.

Read more

“Hi Mum,” the text message reads. “My phone doesn’t work so I’m using a spare. I’m stressed out because of a bill due tomorrow. Please text me on this new number.”

Read more

How AI is raising our risks of billing fraud.

Read more

A series of ads from Clive Palmer’s Trumpet of Patriots party provoked widespread public backlash when they were run in several newspapers a fortnight ago.

Read more

The Australian Electoral Commission has dismissed Victorian Senator Jane Hume’s complaint that a local news startup is a “highly sophisticated digital disinformation campaign” designed to influence the next federal election. 

Read more