Preliminary bulk billing data released recently shows a 2.1% rise in bulk billing up to March. This comes after the government tripled the incentive payment for GPs to bulk bill concession-card holders and children under 16 for most consultations. The new data confirms the December-quarter data, which shows…
Intuitively Rational: How We Think and How We Should, a new book written by Andrew McGee and Charles Foster, has been published this month. This book is about the respective roles of intuition and reasoning in ethics. It responds to a number of well-known philosophers and psychologists and…
QUT’s health law experts Professors Lindy Willmott and Ben White have played a key role in end-of-life law in Australia. Their extraordinary 20-year-plus professional relationship has helped give 98 per cent of Australians the choice of a better death. Their work is a concrete example of making a…
A group of international experts, including Professor Amanda Kennedy from the QUT School of Law and ACHLR Adjunct Professor Belinda Bennett, has presented a blueprint for national indoor quality standards for public buildings, in an article in the prestigious journal Science. The research, led by QUT Distinguished Professor…
Please join members of the Australian Centre for Health Law Research for a public lecture on Tuesday, 9th April 2024, with Professor Ian Freckelton AO KC presenting. All are welcome to attend. Event details Date: Tuesday 9th April 2024 Time: 5.30pm until 7.00pm (AEST time) Location: Owen J.…
Go Gentle Australia and VADANZ (Voluntary Assisted Dying Australia and New Zealand) have partnered with the Australian Centre for Health Law Research (ACHLR) to host the second Trans-Tasman Voluntary Assisted Dying Conference. The conference will be held in Brisbane on 28-29 October 2024. The theme for this year’s conference…
Law, Technology and Humans Vol 6(3) 2024 In recent years, there has been rapid change in the capacity of information and communications technology to supplement the skills of lawyers (‘lawtech’). Artificial intelligence (AI) may radically transform legal practice, the work of courts, and legal education. Law is increasingly…
The role of intellectual property rights in technology transfer to developing countries and least developed countries to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is a major theme of a new international collection of writing on intellectual property rights and the SDGs. Professor Matthew Rimmer is one of…
Professor Nicolas Suzor, Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the QUT School of Law, has been appointed to a new Artificial Intelligence Expert Group. The establishment of the group was announced by the Federal Minister for Industry and Science (The Hon Ed Husic MP), following the Government’s interim…
In 2024 the Law, Technology and Humans journal will begin publishing three issues per year instead of two. Papers are considered for publication at all times. Preference is given to research and scholarship that: Challenges and critically examines the promises and perils of emergent technologies; Engages with the futures…
