QUT’s health law experts Professors Lindy Willmott and Ben White have played a key role in end-of-life law in Australia. Their extraordinary 20-year-plus professional relationship has helped give 98 per cent of Australians the choice of a better death.

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Filed under: Law

Compared to adults, child workers experience high rates of workplace injuries, bullying and sexual harassment, wage theft and unpredictable hours.

Read more of Australia's child workers are vulnerable to injury, harassment and exploitation

Filed under: Business

The effects of introduced megafauna on plants can drive negative public sentiment towards the species. It’s time to change how we think of these animals.

Read more of Horses, camels and deer get a bad rap for razing plants

Filed under: Science

While there are signs that adult perpetration of child sexual abuse is declining, new research shows adolescent perpetration is rising.

Read more of Some gains but fresh difficulties in combating child sexual abuse

Filed under: Health, Justice

Research shows lactic acid has nothing to do with it. The truth is far more interesting, but also a bit more complex.

Read more of Why are my muscles sore after exercise?

Filed under: Health

In February 2024, the American company Intuitive Machines, in collaboration with NASA, celebrated “America’s return to the Moon” with a successful landing of its Odysseus spacecraft.

Read more of The US just returned to the Moon after more than 50 years

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A research project seeks to cut the development time for new life-saving drugs by adding an extra dimension to the process.

Read more of Developing drugs in the third dimension

Filed under: Engineering, Health

An alarming number of children are suspended every year, often at young ages, for minor reasons.

Read more of School suspensions entrench disadvantage

Filed under: Education

It could – if we don’t start to value and protect the traits that make us human.

Read more of Will AI kill our creativity?

Filed under: Science, Creative Industries

The best way to reduce the risk of transmission is to reduce the concentration of airborne virus available to be inhaled.

Read more of Ventilation reduces the risk of COVID. So why are we still ignoring it?

Filed under: Health

With generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as ChatGPT and StableDiffusion being the talk of the town right now, it might feel like we’ve taken a giant leap closer to a sci-fi reality where AIs are physical entities all around us.

Read more of Our future could be full of undying, self repairing robots

Filed under: Science, Engineering

QUT researcher Professor Narelle Haworth isn’t just studying road safety, she’s living it with her daily bicycle commute into the office.

Read more of Pedalling her commitment to road safety

Filed under: Health