Mapping

Health & Medicine

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Analysis

Floods hit the disadvantaged hardest and drive them deeper into poverty

Significant overlap between social disadvantage and flood risk highlights the need for urgent investment in risk reduction, preparedness, and recovery

Politics & Society

The stories hidden in maps

Maps tell stories, help discovery, provoke discussion and can change the way we understand our world. Welcome to Map of the Month

Health & Medicine

We aren’t all equal when it comes to climate vulnerability

A new index measures the social vulnerability of communities in the face of climate change in Australia – and finds inequalities across the country

Arts & Culture

Working to preserve cultural tradition through technology

Ngarluma man Andrew Dowding’s research fuses education, innovation and heritage in digital mapping to empower Indigenous Australians

Politics & Society

Mapping back to a lost childhood

A new interactive online map of Australian care homes is helping those who grew up in care track down the institutions they stayed in, and their records

Sciences & Technology

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Go Figure

Why do some people believe the Earth is flat?

Although scientific evidence says the Earth is a sphere orbiting the Sun, there are some people around who still think our planet is flat... and social media plays a role

Arts & Culture

Restoring one of the world’s rarest maps

Over 350 years ago, Dutch traders produced the first large-scale map of Australia, now painstakingly restored

Sciences & Technology

Crunching the numbers for the common good

How big data is informing some of the big decisions about our country’s future