The University of Queensland hosted the Asia-Pacific Three Minute Thesis finals last week, which was only fitting given it started what is now a global competition. The people’s choice and overall winner was engineer Ashwin Charles Benedict from the Universiti Malaysia Pahang, who spoke on, “Catalysing change: light at the end of the tunnel.” Alyssa Budd from James Cook U was runner-up for “Let’s talk about sex change.”