J.G. Ballard's 1975 novel High-Rise painted a nightmarish vision of the future. A microcosm of class warfare, residents of a tower turn on each other. As the social order decays, violence ensues. While real life high rises are more serene, they encapsulate hidden dangers ...

Yesterday, Xanana Gusmão's Alliance of Change for Progress (AMP) – an opposition coalition – clinched election victory in Timor-Leste (formerly known as East Timor). Gusmão, Timor-Leste's first and fourth Prime Minister, is commonly viewed as a national hero, due to his resistance ...

Smartphone addiction is a familiar, modern-day concept. But why do some feel the need to constantly swipe and scroll, while others don't? Deakin University researchers may have some 'surprising' clues. Their study, just published in Computers in Human Behavior, surveyed 400 undergraduate students. ...

World leaders shake each other's hands as a matter of course, but when Emmanuel Macron grasped Malcolm Turnbull's palm at Admiralty House today, it signified something bigger. The French President and Australian Prime Minister had signed a deal that will ...

Griffith University and Deakin University have teamed up to create a two-week online course designed to give participants a strong understanding of the concepts and methods essential to undertaking and understanding research. Called ‘Why research matters’, the free course begins ...

Deakin University has dominated Victoria’s second-annual International Education Awards. The institution took out the Premier’s Award recognising the state’s International Education Provider of the Year, along with two other major accolades. Along with the feature award, Deakin took out the prize ...

A number of employees at Deakin University are reporting that they have been left to struggle with computer problems and dealing with such technology as video-conferencing following a restructure of information technology services. The National Tertiary Education Union said staff ...

Deakin University has suspended at least one overseas student believed to be among a large group of students using online services to buy essays. More than 100 students were implicated in academic misconduct at the Victorian university earlier this year. ...