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COVID-19 and the global microchip shortage
John Hopkins | June 5, 2021The manufacturing world is facing one of its greatest challenges in years in the form of a global shortage of semiconductors – and there doesn’t appear to be an end in sight.
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Broader education would benefit uni students
Richard Colledge | June 5, 2021Despite the government’s quest for “job-readiness”, Australian universities would do well to look at creative ways to develop a more holistic educational experience for all their students.
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The case for dedicated quarantine facilities
Lachlan Gilbert | June 5, 2021The Federal government has just announced it will help fund the building of a quarantine facility in Victoria, and UNSW academics wonder why it has taken this long.
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G20 education ministers urged to back climate education
Open Forum | June 5, 2021Education Ministers from across the globe are being urged to prioritise quality climate education as a major outcome at the next UN Climate Conference when they meet in Italy as part of the G20 meetings.
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So, where did Covid-19 come from?
Ramesh Thakur | June 5, 2021The World Health Organisation has consistently failed over COVID-19, deferring dangerously to China’s misinformation campaign. Now the idea the virus might have escaped from a lab in Wuhan, long derided as fanciful, is gaining mainstream traction.
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Resolving Samoa’s democratic crisis
Joanne Wallis | June 4, 2021Samoa is facing a political impasse as caretaker Prime Minister Tuilaepa Aiono Sailele Malielegaoi faces off against his former deputy Fiame Naomi Mata’afa.
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Tougher environmental policies can create economic winners
Ou Yang | June 4, 2021There seems to be a working assumption that if Australia adopts tougher environmental policies, then economic growth will be undermined but new research finds the opposite is true.
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Carpe diem
Diane Nazaroff | June 4, 2021The recent one in 100 flood event may deal a blow to European carp eradication efforts in the Murray-Darling basin.
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Mapping bio-diversity brings economic benefits
Open Forum | June 3, 2021A new report by Deloitte Access Economics has found every $1 invested in discovering all remaining Australian species will bring up to $35 of economic benefits to the nation.
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Climate cooperation between China and the West may be a mirage
David Uren | June 3, 2021Climate change has emerged as a rare zone of cooperation and civility between China and the West this year, but it remains to be seen if this will last through to, or beyond, the 26th UN Climate Change Conference in Glasgow in November.
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Houston, we have a problem
Cecilia Duong | June 3, 2021Just like we have on Earth, humans have left an absolute mess in space and nobody wants to clean it up.
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Daniel Kahneman on ‘noise’
Ben Newell | June 2, 2021Daniel Kahneman’s new book presents several compelling cases from business, medicine, and criminal justice in which judgments appear to vary for no “good” reason.
