The Melbourne Newsroom

Using curbside, commercial and biowaste from its poultry industry, the City of Greater Bendigo is building a business case that could see the introduction of Australia’s first multiple stream waste to energy facility.

Are hobby farmers more important to the local community than industry farmers?

Residents in East Gippsland will soon know for the first time just how much the arts is worth, with a group of University of Melbourne Masters students beginning work on a tool to determine its monetary value.

New initiatives to attract businesses back into the Shepparton CBD area are on the cards, as a group of Masters students from the University of Melbourne assess the city’s vacancy rates.

Could a shift to online retailing give a boost to the dairy and retail businesses of South Gippsland?

Consumer behaviour in the City of Stonnington is under the microscope, as three groups of University of Melbourne students look at how shoppers use the council’s well-known precincts.

Market fluctuations in East Asia and their impact on Australia is the focus of the latest edition of the Australian Economic Review (AER), the peak economic policy journal in the country.

Professor Kevin Davis live on ABC 24 discussing the latest debt issues in the Eurozone and what this means in the broader economic context.

Kevin Davis is a Professor of Finance. His primary research interests are in the areas of financial institutions and markets, financial engineering and corporate finance.

Adolescent boys are more prone to delinquency if they do not have a father figure in their lives, a University of Melbourne study has found, while adolescent girls seem unaffected by the presence or absence of fathers in their lives.

In the wake of the Qantas dispute, leading politicians, academics, union officials and employer representatives will debate shifts in industrial relations and productivity over the past 20 years at a University of Melbourne symposium this week.