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Every two months we publish webinars, videos or podcasts on Health, Defence, Mining, ICT, Transport, Energy and Agriculture from Universities in Australia. And promote to businesses, not for profits, and high schools.

November - December 2025

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ICT

Gallery - ICT

Charles Sturt: Embracing AI in agriculture

It's my pleasure now to introduce Sarah Carney from Microsoft. And Sarah is the Chief Technology Officer for Microsoft, Australia and New...

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UTS: Too young to scroll? Policy, practice and the bigger picture.

Last year the Australian government introduced new laws that set the minimum age for using social media at. 16. The idea is basically to protect...

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Swinburne: Securing AI in healthcare

AI systems can help people to solve very complex problems. By integrating multidisciplinary care, you're actually making it better. It has the...

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RMIT: Welcome to the Centre for Cyber Security Research and Innovation

The Cyber Centre is a research centre that's multidisciplinary, brings together researchers from across the university, to deal with the...

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QUT: Demystifying AI and Cyber Careers

Hello and welcome to our event today. Greetings to all of you in the room as well as those of you joining us online. We're here to talk about...

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Deakin: Can we stop quantum computing breaking the internet?

Hello, my name's Jason and I'm a lecturer here at the School of IT. I'm also one of the researchers at the Deacon Cyber Research and Innovation...

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Curtin: Indrus: Real-time Asset Tracking System Using Existing Camera Infrastructure

In global logistics, one problem continues to cost millions. Identifying valuable cargo is like finding a needle in a haystack. This is due to...

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CSIRO: AI Explained: It's maths, not magic (a simple guide)

Artificial intelligence is all around us, but how does it work? Let's shed some light on the world of ai, artificial intelligence is an...

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CSIRO: Using Artificial Intelligence To Reduce Plastic Waste.

How big is the plastic pollution problem globally? We anticipate the plastic production will double by 2040. We're losing thousands of metric...

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UTS: Film director answers questions about AI

Hello, I'm Associate Professor Alex Mutt, a filmmaker, screenwriter, and media researcher at UTS specialising in micro budget filmmaking and...

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Uni of Sydney: How Quantum Computing works

Quantum computing seeks to take advantage of the quantum effects. When you think of a classic computer, right, we have these zeros and ones which...

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Uni of Queensland: Hacking the future

The future is going to be more technology intense than the past, and so anything and everything we do today will be influenced by technology,...

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Uni of UNSW: The Art and Science of AI

VERITY FIRTH: Good evening, everyone. I'm so pleased to be here with you all. Tonight's event is a unique opportunity for two award-winning...

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La Trobe: Advancing Medical Frontiers with AI

Good morning everyone, and welcome to the Australian Centre for AI in Medical Innovation's first webinar focused on advancing medical frontiers...

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Deakin: Performance analytics in AFL

In the high stakes world of elite sport, every decision counts. Games could be won or lost in a matter of seconds, and athletes are under...

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UTS: Protecting Sydney's water supply with AI, data science and robotics

Water pipe breaks cause very severe damage. Big ones could cost millions of dollars to fix. If you just look at Sydney alone, we have over...

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Transport

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Curtin: Indrus: Real-time Asset Tracking System Using Existing Camera Infrastructure

In global logistics, one problem continues to cost millions. Identifying valuable cargo is like finding a needle in a haystack. This is due to...

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CSIRO: How Hydrogen Powered Vehicles Work

Hydrogen vehicles, how do they work? Are they safe? When can we expect to be driving one? And most importantly, how can they help us reduce our...

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Western Sydney: Solar car

It is go, go, go all the time, but I wouldn't have it any other way. We've spent the last 18 months doing this thing and there's 40...

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Uni of UNSW: New 'Google Maps for the sea' cutting shipping industry's CO2 emissions

90% of everything that we buy is shipped by sea. That's 1.5 tons of cargo carried by ships for every single person alive on earth. We all rely...

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UWA: Australia's first electric jet ski

A team of students from The University of Western Australia has built Australia’s first electric personal watercraft, commonly referred to as a...

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RMIT: How hydrogen engines work

What we have here is our Rotax Twin Cylinder motorcycle engine. Here are the twin hydrogen injectors. Hydrogen is actually fed into the injectors...

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Electric vehicles

The electric vehicle industry is growing quickly; find out how this exciting new way of looking at transport is creating jobs and helping to...

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Do electric cars have a future in Australia?

The US government recently announced its entire vehicle fleet would go electric, while major manufacturers like General Motors have pledged most...

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How Tesla’s Battery Mastermind Is Tackling EV's Biggest Problem

Lithium-ion batteries are everywhere — in phones, laptops, tablets, cameras and increasingly cars. Demand for lithium-ion batteries has risen...

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Electric Planes: They Have Arrived

It’s no surprise NASA is developing an electric aircraft. Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is absolutely convinced we’ll be flying in long...

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Energy

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Curtin: RapidGraphite: A Revolution in Graphite Production for Lithium-ion Batteries

As the world races towards a low carbon future, one material lies at the heart of the battery technology powering that transition, synthetic...

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CSIRO: Turning farm waste into jet fuel!

Whether you're frequently flying or not, you're probably aware that emissions from flying are sky high. So, what if we could turn waste...

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CSIRO: What do you do with dead solar panels?

The future is renewable because it has to be to avoid the worst impacts of climate change and meet our net zero emission ambitions, we need to...

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CSIRO: How Hydrogen Powered Vehicles Work

Hydrogen vehicles, how do they work? Are they safe? When can we expect to be driving one? And most importantly, how can they help us reduce our...

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Western Sydney: Solar car

It is go, go, go all the time, but I wouldn't have it any other way. We've spent the last 18 months doing this thing and there's 40...

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Uni of Wollongong: Helping business innovate a clean energy future

The university works on global challenges, but global challenges affect local communities and it distils down, be it human health, be it...

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Uni of Melbourne: How Traditional Owners are powering the clean energy transition

Welcome everyone. Thank you all for joining us today for how traditional owners are powering the Clean Energy Transition, which is hosted by...

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Western Australia: Harnessing the power of our oceans

Today is really the fruition of four years effort by a number of people. The combined force of UWA, its Oceans Institute and the director of...

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Uni of UNSW: Creating the world's first nuclear fusion device

In 2024, at AtomCraft, we began our quest to begin making the world's first nuclear fusion machine entirely designed, built, and operated by...

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QUT: How can batteries power a sustainable future?

Hello and welcome to Ready Stem Go where we talk about some of the big STEM questions floating around with our QT researchers, students, and...

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CQU: Centre for Hydrogen and Renewable Energy

CQUniversity's Centre for Hydrogen and Renewable Energy provides world-class research, training and support to the emerging hydrogen and renewable...

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Western Sydney Uni: Renewable Energy Mobility Solution Changing Lives in Rural Africa

Western Business Research Collaborative (WBRC) is a hub for multidisciplinary research, business education and global outreach, aimed at engaging...

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UWA: Australia's first electric jet ski

A team of students from The University of Western Australia has built Australia’s first electric personal watercraft, commonly referred to as a...

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Uni of Sydney: The Risks of oil and gas development for human health and wellbeing

A synthesis of evidence and implications for Australia.

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Uni of NSW: Nuclear Materials

Patrick Burr is working to solve this problem by designing new materials that will not only enable sustained fusion reactions, but will help make...

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Uni of Newcastle: About NIER

At the Newcastle Institute for Energy and Resources (NIER), multidisciplinary teams are driving productivity and sustainability gains through...

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Agriculture

Gallery - Agriculture

ANU: Protecting our native plants against one of Australia’s most deadly plant diseases

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SwarmFarm Robotics I Farmer Testimonial I Al Doggett

Overall, I would honestly recommend this as a game changer to other turf farmers. It will change your farm. Your farm will get mowed when it...

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SwarmFarm Robotics I Road to Autonomy I Mapping

My name's Bailey Kilpatrick. I work for Swarm Farm Robotics. What we have behind us here is a 24 metre machine with a weeded system on it. Behind...

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UniSC: The future for koalas is looking better

Koalas are truly iconic for all of us, and sadly their numbers are decreasing. There's actually fewer koalas today than there were yesterday....

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Sydney: The value of social science in food systems research

Welcome everybody to the latest iteration of our nutrition seminar series. Our speaker today is Dr. Juliet Bennett. She's a postdoctoral...

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UNSW: Remote quantum entanglement of nuclear qubits

Quantum computing could revolutionise the way we perform computations that are beyond the reach of even the most powerful computing machines we...

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Southern Cross: Citizen scientists survey the Clarence River

The rhythm is our storyline. It's where it feeds us. It is everything to everybody where the rivers are healthy, the people are healthy, where the...

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Macquarie: Maths is fun - how actuaries make a difference

Bruce Edwards has been teaching actuarial studies at Macquarie University for over 20 years. In that time, he has loved shaping the minds of...

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Deakin: Revolutionising Fibre Innovation in Australia

I am Associate Professor Chris Harron. I do research into textiles here at Deacon Institute for Frontier Materials. Deacon has a really long...

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Deakin: Beyond The Field: How Taylar Borg Powers Performance at the Cats

Hi, my name's Taylar Borg and I'm the ALALW Sports Scientist here at Geelong Cats. I collect things such as GPS data, heart rate information, and...

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Deakin: Deakin after dark: Nocturnal research helps ‘crack’ forensic cases

I guess you could consider my lab as a bit of a scratch and sniff experience. You have to experience it all at once. To get the full perception...

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Deakin: Can we stop quantum computing breaking the internet?

Hello, my name's Jason and I'm a lecturer here at the School of IT. I'm also one of the researchers at the Deacon Cyber Research and Innovation...

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Curtin: RockAI: Rockfall Detection with Thermal Vision for Safer Mines

In mining every second counts, especially when safety and productivity are on the line. Curtin University PhD student, Daniel Goldstein, knows...

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Curtin: Bio-enhanced Native Seaweed Solution to Chronic Inflammation

Inflammation is linked to a number of long-term health problems for one in two Australians, including IBS, heart disease and chronic...

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Charles Sturt: Research Futures Showcase

Charles Sturt, after whom the university is named, his mantra was in the public good, and that's one of the reasons why he was chosen as the...

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Charles Sturt: Nature-based solutions for future farming

Well, welcome to tonight's Provocations public lecture co-hosted by the Royal Society of New South Wales and Charles Sturt University. My name is...

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Health

Gallery - Health Innovation

UOW: The researcher revolutionising pancreatic cancer treatment

Pancreatic cancer kills nine out of 10 patients, and when diagnosed, patients have months, not years. I use this analogy that immune system...

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UTS: Pain scientist answers questions about why people experience pain differently

Hello, curious people. I'm Dr. Joshua Pate, a pain scientist, physiotherapist, and an academic at UTS. I'm here to answer your curious questions...

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Uni of Melbourne: Digital health technologies in cardiovascular medicine

Today our theme is to discuss digital health technologies in cardiovascular medicine. We're going to discuss the success stories, and the...

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Swinburne: Securing AI in healthcare

AI systems can help people to solve very complex problems. By integrating multidisciplinary care, you're actually making it better. It has the...

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Flinders: Navigating aged care: Supporting older Australians through change

I was dreading the day that I had to say, mom, you've got to leave this place and go somewhere else. But the staff reassured us that this was...

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Deakin: Beyond The Field: How Taylar Borg Powers Performance at the Cats

Hi, my name's Taylar Borg and I'm the ALALW Sports Scientist here at Geelong Cats. I collect things such as GPS data, heart rate information, and...

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Deakin: The Avi Flu Map

For as long as there have been birds, there's probably also been avian influenza. But then low pathogenic influenza, and it's only because of the...

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Curtin: Bio-enhanced Native Seaweed Solution to Chronic Inflammation

Inflammation is linked to a number of long-term health problems for one in two Australians, including IBS, heart disease and chronic...

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Uni of Tasmania: The latest on advances in drugs, diagnosis and risk

What I thought I'd do today is to focus on some very recent developments, that have been occurring in dementia, particularly in the area of new...

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Uni of Sydney: Exercise as medicine

When it comes to living healthier for longer, exercise means far more than weight loss or fitness. It's as essential as the food that we eat in...

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Western Australia: Labour safety for mums and babies

The problem we're trying to solve is that many babies are born without enough oxygen to their brain, and that causes lifelong injury and damage to...

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Uni of UNSW: Detecting breast cancer with a blood test

Imagine detecting breast cancer with a simple blood test. We partnered with Bcal Diagnostics to turn this vision into reality, leading to the...

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La Trobe: Advancing Medical Frontiers with AI

Good morning everyone, and welcome to the Australian Centre for AI in Medical Innovation's first webinar focused on advancing medical frontiers...

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Deakin: Preventing Obesity, Protecting Futures

Retail food environments are the places where we all shop and buy our food. That includes everything from supermarkets, convenience stores,...

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ANU: Can you 3D print organs?

It's almost, you know, science fiction inspired. The idea that you can come up with a design and use that to design a three-dimensional object...

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Victoria Uni: Getting Australia’s Health on Track & Australia’s Health Tracker

Colleagues today, we are especially delighted to welcome the Minister for Health and Aged Care in the Australian government, the Honourable...

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Defence

Gallery - Security & Defence

Curtin: 'After War' Global Futures Challenge 2025

Hi, I'm Dean Global Futures in Humanities here at Curtin University. And we've been working on a Global Futures Challenge, which is...

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La Trobe: What is the future of Australia's alliance with the US?

Good evening and welcome. My name is Dr. Stacy Faraway, and I'm the Deputy Vice Chancellor of Future Growth at Latrobe University. I'm...

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Gilmour Space Technologies

Adam Gilmour, Co-Founder at Gilmour Space Technologies, one of the state’s leading space companies.

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Western Sydney Uni: Astrosite

The MARCS Institute for Brain, Behaviour and Development conducts world-class interdisciplinary research that advances knowledge and finds...

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Uni of Queensland: Cyber Security - Is a secure future possible?

Hello everybody and welcome to today's cybersecurity webinar. I'm Associate Professor John Williams. I'm the Deputy Director of the...

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La Trobe: How to Defend Australia: Some Alternative Visions

For the past decade, mainstream Australian defence policy and its underlying assumptions have been challenged, with both courage and originality,...

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ANU: Two years on: How will Russia's war on Ukraine end?

As Russia enters its third year of war against Ukraine, we need to ask: how will this war end? Let us firstly revisit Emeritus Professor Paul...

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Adelaide University: Study defence, cyber or space

Discover how studying a defence-, cyber-or space-related degree with us can give you the knowledge, skills and hands-on experience you need for...

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Sovereign Guided Weapons and Explosive Ordnance... Black Sky Aerospace is ready

Black Sky Aerospace understands that the time for Sovereign Capability is NOW! Black Sky Aerospace is owned in Australia, by Australians, and...

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Safran Electronics & Defence - Missile

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Rheinmetall NIOA Munitions

John Hart is a proud key technology partner in the new Rheinmetall NIOA Munitions artillery shell forging plant in Maryborough.

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Ultra Mobile Artillery Rockets

Sovereign Guided Weapons development to safeguard Australia. On the day our nation celebrates its achievements and embraces a new wave of...

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Anduril and the Royal Australian Navy develop an autonomous underwater vehicle

Defence technology company Anduril Industries and the Australian Defence Force are entering into commercial negotiations for a US$100m co-funded...

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Skyborne Cerberus GLH v6

We develop smart aerial robotics to give our Defence and security customers cutting-edge capability.

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The BIA5 Warfighter

A joint venture by Cyborg Dynamics and BIA5, the warfighter UGV represents a sub 1 tonne, highly capable UGV to support the warfighter. Enhanced...

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Mining

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Battery metals from mine waste: Australia's green opportunity - Cobalt Blue

I am so happy to have Helen Geling with us today. Helen has had an extensive career as an exploration geologist and exploration manager...

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EQ Resources' Mt Carbine Tungsten Mine

Hi, I am Kevin McNeil and I'm the CEO of Mount Carbine Mines EQ Resources. At Mount Carbine, we do extraction of tungsten from both a waste...

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Curtin: RockAI: Rockfall Detection with Thermal Vision for Safer Mines

In mining every second counts, especially when safety and productivity are on the line. Curtin University PhD student, Daniel Goldstein, knows...

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Western Australia: Reshaping our future critical minerals workforce

Critical resources, it's a hot topic at the moment, and most people relate critical resources to critical metals or critical minerals that are...

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UWA: Master of Ore Deposit Geology

Around the turn of the century, the Minerals Council of Australia, through the Minerals tertiary education Council, got together three of the...

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QUT: Can VR help us learn about environments we can’t get to?

In this episode, host Nicola interviews Cael Gallagher, a PHD candidate who is pioneering the use of virtual reality (VR) in geology education....

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Federation: Bachelor of Geoscience

Welcome to this webinar on the Bachelor of Geoscience at Federation University. In today's webinar, we are focusing on the Bachelor of...

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Recycling mining waste – A new business?

Recycling mining waste – A new business? Can mining waste become a new resource?

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How can we improve mine tailings processing, management and disposal?

Are you struggling with mine tailings management? The storage, disposal and reprocessing of tailings and mine waste can be a significant challenge...

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More to Mining - Land use and rehabilitation

The Australian minerals industry recognises that access to land is based on an ability to show responsible land stewardship throughout the mining...

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More to Mining - Anglo American Dawson Mine

Anglo American has been progressively rehabilitating its Dawson coal mine in Central Queensland since 2012. Take a look at the story of Pit 25, a...

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Anglesea mine rehabilitation update, Australia

Following the closure of Alcoa’s Anglesea Power Station and Mine, and underpinned by a strong commitment to health, safety and environmental...

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The Mining Industry: Transformation for a sustainable future.

cyclical market, deeper, more remote assets, and increased responsibility for local environment and communities: the mining industry today faces a...

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Mining for a climate solution

Around Australia new mining operations are being established and old sites, shuttered decades ago, are being brought back to life. These miners...

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Integrated mine closure good practice

Mineral resources are finite, making the eventual closure of a mining operation inevitable. Leaving a community with a sustainably rehabilitated...

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Tailings and tailings management

The mining industry is undergoing consistent changes and facing new challenges that need solutions. Tailings management has quickly rushed to...

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