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A room with dark walls is filled with an art installation of industrial mining equipment repurposed into musical instruments.

Extraction, extinction and post-carbon futures are explored by Australian and international artists in ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû Art Museum’s first group exhibition for 2023, We Are Electric.

10 February 2023
Woman in custody

A University of Queensland study found many Indigenous women who died in custody had not been sentenced by a court, but were on remand or in protective custody.

9 February 2023
Sprigs of three plants arranged on a white, square plate which sits on a time board

A group of plants used by First Nations Australians as food, animal fodder and medicine could be a nutritious alternative to salt, according to University of Queensland research.

7 February 2023
A woman with long black hair is smiling at the camera, she is wearing a graduation cap and gown over a white dress and is standing in the sandstone cloisters of ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû's Great Court.

University of Queensland graduate Dr Ella Ceolin can partly thank school holiday boredom for setting her on a career path in medicine.

14 December 2022

ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû will establish three Centres of Excellence to tackle major global challenges and opportunities.

4 November 2022
Rows of lettuces growing inside a glass house. Image, ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû

Feeding the world’s spiralling population amidst the ravages of climate change will be the focus of a major agriculture conference which gets underway in Brisbane today.

31 October 2022
A close up image of a child's hands holing a large red apple.

Researchers at ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû have found children in disadvantaged communities often go hungry when they attend early education and childcare centres.

21 October 2022
child fills a glass at a water tap

Research from ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû has found no link between community water fluoridation and adverse effects to children’s brain development.

10 October 2022
A ballet dancer in white tutu leaping under lights on stage. Adobe

A free University of Queensland peer coaching program, designed to help rebuild the arts and culture sector in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, is set to go global.

7 September 2022
A group of teenage girls next to a smaller group of young girls. The teenagers are wearing pale blue short pleated skirts, red hats, red shirts with tassels, mid-length white socks, and white shoes. The younger children are wearing white dresses, hats, socks and shoes.

At a time when Aboriginal people’s lives were controlled – including what language they spoke, where they could go and who they could marry – Aunty Lesley Williams was marching outside these restrictions.

3 August 2022
A woman stands in a freshwater swamp holding a bundle of long straight reeds.

Weaving is part of Sonja Carmichael’s cultural inheritance, but despite always living on Country, she only arrived at it by chance.

2 August 2022
Dylan Berger

Dylan Berger is set to explore how language is a living form of Indigenous Knowledge, as the inaugural recipient of ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû’s Indigenous Languages Scholarship.

1 August 2022
A picture separated into four equal sections showing headshots of First Nations musical artists.

Deadly Noize is set to showcase First Nations artists in four hours of live music at ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû.

30 July 2022
Lorelle Holland wearing a colourful dress and a black, red and yellow sash. She is standing in front of an Aboriginal, Australian, and Torres Strait Islands flag.

Lorelle Holland describes herself as a disruptor. The proud Mandandanji woman and University of Queensland PhD candidate is relatively new to academia but is already making her mark.

8 July 2022
A woman wearing a pink blazer

ÎçÒ¹¸£Àû’s Professor Bronwyn Fredericks has been awarded a 2022 National NAIDOC Week award for decades of work to improve educational outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.

4 July 2022