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Visitors are up, but Mona remains reliant on gambling funds

Mona visitor numbers are up, but gambling continues to prop up loss-making Tasmanian gallery Fri 5 Jun 2026 at 3:57pm In short: Newly filed accounts show Hobart's Museum of Old and New Art, Mona, remains dependent on owner David Walsh tipping in large amounts of money from his gambling interests. Last week, Mr Walsh's privately owned Downward Spiral Enterprises (Tas) lodged eight years of accounts with the corporate regulator, giving a first glimpse of the finances of Mona's ultimate holding...

Temporal Action Selection for Action Chunking

Announce Type: replace Abstract: Action chunking is a widely adopted approach in Learning from Demonstration (LfD). By modeling multi-step action chunks rather than single-step actions, action chunking significantly enhances modeling capabilities for human expert policies. However, because action chunking makes a single decision only after a complete action block has been executed, the resulting reduction in decision frequency restricts the utilization of real-time observations, impairing...

AI Assistance for Discretionary Work: Increasing Feedback Provision in Higher Education

Announce Type: new Abstract: AI systems increasingly shape human workflows by generating intermediate artifacts that users can adopt, revise, or ignore. While prior work has shown that AI assistance can improve the efficiency and accuracy of required tasks, less is known about whether it can increase participation in discretionary but beneficial work that users often intend to perform but frequently skip. We study this question in the context of personalized feedback provision in higher...

New deer hunting rules not expected to bring numbers down

Farmers say new rules for feral deer hunting in Tasmania are a 'missed opportunity' Tue 2 Jun 2026 at 1:58pm In short: The Tasmanian government is making changes to the rules around deer hunting, which it says will reduce the number of wild fallow deer. It comes as deer numbers continue to soar, and farmers report "huge losses" as a result. There are concerns the changes don't go far enough, and won't result in any meaningful change.

New bulk-billing contraceptive centres aim to combat information void

Federal government hopes bulk-billing contraceptive centres will empower more women Fri 5 Jun 2026 at 6:20am In short: Experts have reported that fewer young people worldwide are using hormonal contraceptives, including long-acting reversible contraceptives like the IUD or Implanon, and uptake is even lower in Australia than in comparable countries. They point to barriers like cost, availability of services, and a lack of information, with added misinformation meaning people are less able to...

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