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Radical Indonesian Muslim cleric Abu Bakar Bashir was yesterday sentenced to 15 years in jail for supporting and sponsoring terrorism. RMIT Associate Professor Jeff Lewis, an Indonesia expert, tells The…
One of the most basic questions to ask in any analysis of Australia’s carbon policy has always been: what is the rest of the world doing? Last week, the Productivity Commission (PC) published a partial…
This will be the century of urbanisation, when seven billion of almost 10 billion people will live in urban settlements. In Australia our urban sprawl is consuming land at a per capita rate that few countries…
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Energy efficiency is globally seen as the biggest and best option for cheaply reducing greenhouse gas emissions and dealing with rising power bills. But in Australia it still struggles for recognition…
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Research Fellow, Media & Communications, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer of Marketing, RMIT University
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Associate Professor in Criminology and Justice, RMIT University
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Associate Dean, Interaction, Technology and Information, RMIT University
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Associate professor, School of Management, RMIT University
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Adjunct Senior Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
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Associate Professor - Physics, RMIT University
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Deputy Dean, School of Computing Technologies, RMIT University
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Professor, RMIT University
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Professor & Dean, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in Marketing, RMIT University
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Associate Deputy Vice Chancellor, Research & Innovation, College of Design & Social Context, RMIT University
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Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow, RMIT University
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Research Fellow, Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University
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Associate Professor in Cinema Studies, RMIT University
