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Three common tax mistakes and how to avoid them
Accounting expert Professor Rahat Munir has launched a new public clinic designed to demystify and improve basic tax knowledge, and explains here how to avoid common tax-time mistakes.
World rankings boost for Macquarie University
Macquarie University has achieved its highest ever position in the QS World University Rankings, climbing 65 places to secure a global ranking position of 130 in the world.
Bees make decisions better and faster than we do ... for the things that matter to them
New research reveals how we could design robots to think like bees.
Retinal gene therapy could provide protection in glaucoma
Macquarie Medical School researchers have developed a technique for a gene therapy that could help treat the world’s leading cause of irreversible blindness.
Closing the gap in the legal sector
A ground-breaking new program, run by Macquarie University, TAFE NSW and Legal Aid NSW, will increase the skilled and credentialled Aboriginal workforce in the legal sector.
Scamming the scammers: New AI fake victims to disrupt criminal business model
Macquarie University cyber security experts have invented a multilingual chatbot designed to keep scammers on long fake calls and ultimately reduce the huge number of people who lose money to global criminals every day.
Three Macquarie University projects share in ARC Linkage Projects funding
Macquarie University has been awarded more than $1.6 million across three research projects in the latest funding round of the Australian Research Council’s Linkage Projects scheme.
Individual cost of inherited retinal diseases now in plain sight
New figures clarifying the cost of care for people suffering inherited retinal diseases in Australia have been published and could lead to better access to life-changing treatments for this leading cause of vision loss in working-age adults.
Hope as link between retina and Alzheimer's revealed
Aided by a retina map developed by Macquarie University researchers, a major international study has identified protein markers in the eye that mirror changes in the brain, offering hope for early detection of Alzheimer's disease.
Please explain: Do sleep apps help with insomnia?
Sleep and relaxation apps have become a popular way to deal with disturbed sleep, but do they really work? Sleep researcher Associate Professor Christopher Gordon says some do – but not all apps are created equal.
Study shines light on pointless Vitamin D tests
Blood tests for Vitamin D deficiency in Australian children have increased 30-fold over the past 15 years with no increase in detection.
Referendum Q & A: Who, what, why and how?
As Australia continues to canvass issues surrounding the Voice proposal, Politics and International Relations scholar Associate Professor Ian Tregenza dissects the democratic lynchpin that is the referendum.