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Monash University

Working paper

Regional development, innovation, skill needs and training: a pilot study in the Shire of Gannawarra, Victoria


While all enterprises from time to time experience difficulties in accessing the particular education and training they need to meet their skill requirements, those in regional areas sometimes face greater challenges, particularly if they are located at some distance from metropolitan centres. These difficulties can occur at any time, but there is a suggestion that...
Report

Independent living units: clarifying their current and future role as an affordable housing option for older people with low assets and low incomes


Sean McNelis and Tania Herbert investigate the current status of Independent Living Units, which operate outside current housing and aged care regulatory frameworks, to ascertain how well they are meeting the needs of older people and the issues surrounding the ageing of this form.
Report

The Turing triage test


If, as a number of writers have predicted, the computers of the future will possess intelligence and capacities that exceed our own then it seems as though they will be worthy of a moral respect at least equal to human beings. Drawing on Alan Turing's original 'Turing test', which argued that we would be justified...