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These webinars, videos and podcasts on Agriculture, Defence, Energy, Health, ICT, Mining and Transport from Universities in Australia are updated every two months. And promoted to businesses, not for profits, and high schools.

[Updated every two months]

Agriculture

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Uni of Canberra: Return of the Green and Golden Bell Frog
We're looking to ultimately get ready to release what is an extinct frog in the ACT, was here all the way up to the 1980s but unfortunately...
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RMIT: What will we eat in the future?
Good evening. I'm Professor Naomi Stead, and I am the Associate Deputy Vice Chancellor of Engagement in the College of Design and Social Context...
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QUT: Galip Nut Research
Chapter 1: Ancient Superfood of the Pacific The Galip nut grows all the way through from Indonesia all the way down to Vanuatu through the...
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Griffith: All eyes on koala movements with AI
We can see from the data that koalas are in trouble here. They've recently been listed as endangered in Australia and Southeast Queensland was...
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UTS: Food Security with Dana Cordell
I work at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, where I'm a research director of the Food Systems Research Group, and today I'll be talking on,...
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UNSW:The Power of Light with Dr Alison Goldingay
For all of human history, light has been instrumental to the development of new technology. It's not just about having light to see, for example,...
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Murdoch: Disease in pets is rising, but how are vets adapting?
There are certain conditions that we see really commonly in older cats that were unheard of even 40 years ago and they seem to be becoming more...
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Flinders: Helping Australia's farmers with climate-smart solutions
It is super important that farming is sustainable but also productive. At the end of the day, farmers are feeding the world. So, if farmers are...
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Charles Sturt: Optimising yield, growth and use
Good evening, everyone. Thank you.  One of those things that we are here today is actually in line with that the provocation series which we...
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ANU: What is Indigenous genomics?
I really believe in this science, and I think that when we think about closing the gap for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, you have...
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ANU: Protecting our native plants against one of Australia’s most deadly plant diseases
Australia is a unique place. We have so many endemic species, which means we have species which we can only find in Australia, or maybe even only...
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SwarmFarm Robotics: 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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Defence

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UTS: PRC Ambassador to Australia
Good morning, all.  My name is James Lawrenson. I'm the director of the Australia China Relations Institute here at the University of...
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UTS: Could Australia run out of fuel?
Welcome to Curiosities live here at UTS.  I would like to begin by welcoming our audience tonight. Thank you for joining us for a...
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Uni of Sydney: Challenging Inequality in the Asset Economy
Hi, welcome everyone. My name is Lisa Atkins. I'm the dean of the faculty of arts and social sciences and welcome to this episode of the deans...
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Deakin: Where does Australia fit?
Much of the stuff in the Epstein Files is about the United States role in the world as well, and the exercise of men's power in the world. What...
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PM Mark Carney: World Economic Forum in Davos – January 20, 2026
Thank you very much. Larry,  It seems that every day we're reminded that we live in an era of great power rivalry, that the rules-based...
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UTS: Food Security with Dana Cordell
I work at the Institute for Sustainable Futures, where I'm a research director of the Food Systems Research Group, and today I'll be talking on,...
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Deakin: Dystopia, Populism and the Future of America
It all started with the idea that comes from another great writer, George Orwell, who used to say that all art is propaganda, which means that...
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ANU: Migration Update keynote: The Hon Matt Thistlethwaite MP
So, good morning, everyone. We've put on a very, very warm day here in Canberra for you all. On behalf of the Australian National University,...
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ANU: Freedom's Frontier: Belarus and the Battle for Europe's Future
It gives me great pleasure to welcome you all to this evening's lecture. Before I officially introduce Sviatlana, I know she does not need...
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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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Uni of Wollongong: Beating the hackers
Tonight we're discussing how we can help our community beat the hackers and scammers that are plaguing our lives.  We have, Professor John...
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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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Curtin: AI & Cybersecurity for a Better Digital Future
I am Dr Redowan Mahmud. I'm currently working as a Research Academic in the School of EECMS Curtin University. My research lies at the...
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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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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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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
Hydrogen is already a very large industry. It's used in a number of applications but it has a very high carbon footprint because it uses methane...
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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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Western Australia: 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
Imagine pulling into a petrol station with two thirds of a tank of fuel. You drain your tank and throw away that fuel before filling up again,...
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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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Health

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RMIT: What will we eat in the future?
Good evening. I'm Professor Naomi Stead, and I am the Associate Deputy Vice Chancellor of Engagement in the College of Design and Social Context...
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UNSW: Ending AIDS: A Global Responsibility
What do we do with all this land and how do we feed a growing population? And I've only really can think of one thing, and that is we need to...
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Southern Cross: can we stop dengue before it spreads?
Smarter Warnings, Safer Communities:  The Dengue Early Warning Tool.  Every year, dengue outbreaks stretch health systems across...
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Murdoch: Disease in pets is rising, but how are vets adapting?
There are certain conditions that we see really commonly in older cats that were unheard of even 40 years ago and they seem to be becoming more...
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La Trobe: Frontiers in Infectious Diseases Innovation
Every day we hear about the challenges affecting industry and our broader society. La Trobe University as a leading university has a critical role...
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ANU: What is Indigenous genomics?
I really believe in this science, and I think that when we think about closing the gap for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, you have...
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Uni of Wollongong: 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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ICT

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Griffith: All eyes on koala movements with AI
We can see from the data that koalas are in trouble here. They've recently been listed as endangered in Australia and Southeast Queensland was...
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Deakin: AI for sustainable fashion
I have lots of concerns about the sustainability of most things we do on earth like where it's sort of talking about consumption and...
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Charles Sturt: The Illusion of friendship
Introduction Sarah O'Shea: I'd like to start by welcoming you to today's Provocations public lecture which is co-hosted by the Royal Society of...
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Southern Cross: Rethinking peer review in the AI era
Renaud Joannes-Boyau: It's a pleasure to be with you today, in person and   online. I think we have quite a few people online, so...
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UNSW:The Power of Light with Dr Alison Goldingay
For all of human history, light has been instrumental to the development of new technology. It's not just about having light to see, for example,...
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UNSW: Rewiring AI with Dr Charu Maithani | One Big Idea
Imagine a garden where four rectangular grounds are walled within intersecting water channels. Stone walkways lead you across the different...
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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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Mining

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Cobalt Blue: Battery metals from mine waste: Australia's green opportunity
 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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Western Australia: 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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Weir Minerals: 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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Transport

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UTS: Could Australia run out of fuel?
Welcome to Curiosities live here at UTS.  I would like to begin by welcoming our audience tonight. Thank you for joining us for a...
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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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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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Western Australia: 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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World first delivery of iron ore with world’s largest robot
Rio Tinto has achieved a significant milestone with the first delivery of iron ore by an autonomous train in the Pilbara, Western Australia.
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Haul Truck Robotic Wheel Change System
Adrian Haak (Scott Automation & Robotics Project Engineer) explains the principles of the Robotic Wheel Change System. The system uses...
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