Apil Gurung

The royal commission has scrutinised aged care staffing. From shutterstock.com

June 26, 2019

Our ailing aged care system shows you can’t skimp on nursing care

Apil Gurung, University of the Sunshine Coast and Samantha Edwards, University of the Sunshine Coast

Aged care facilities are employing fewer registered and enrolled nurses and more carers, which saves money but results in sub-standard care.

People catch up with the news of the earthquake at a kiosk in Kathmandu, Nepal. EPA/Abir Abdullah

May 5, 2015

How the media struggled in Nepal’s earthquake rescue

Gerard Fitzgerald, Queensland University of Technology; Apil Gurung, Queensland University of Technology, and Bharat Raj Poudel, Queensland University of Technology

Nepal has thousands of journalists working in hundreds of media outlets and publications. But getting the story out about the deadly earthquake was no easy task.