‘I spent a lot of time at the beach exploring rock pools on the Mornington Peninsula’

Interview by Maria Abbatangelo

‘Overall, I found that kids with same-sex attracted parents are doing very well and in some areas they’re doing better than average’

Interview by Emily Porrello

‘In buildings you traditionally design a facade to resist wind and gravity but rarely something as extreme as a blast load’

‘We discovered that they were in fact cooling themselves on the trunk’

‘I had observed that popular culture was one of the rare places where people were interacting across inter-ethnic lines’

Interview by Tim Clare

‘The idea of a bionic eye was something the entire scientific and medical community wanted to develop’

‘No one knows how to spin a dream better than Hollywood, so it’s interesting to look at their depiction of place’

Interview by Michelle See-Tho

‘We’re beginning to talk about success, and why people do well, and not treating it as a sensation when they do’

‘Instead of risking their lives attempting to cross a busy road, the little marsupials will isolate themselves to one side’

Interview by Ali Winters

‘The sky really is the limit on the different ways we can design cities . . . ‘

‘The rate of weight loss had no impact on long-term weight management’

Interview by Cally Sheng

‘We have new species of ferns in Australia because of this project’

Interview by Buffy Gorrilla

‘Teaching literacy is a very controversial field’

Interview by Anders Furze

‘Students can escape poor teachers, but they can’t escape poor assessment’

‘Patients with cancer performed significantly worse than we predicted’

Interview by Daniel Horsley