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Staying “food safe” this Christmas
Open Forum | December 18, 2020The Food Safety Information Council has launched their Christmas and Summer entertaining food safety advice, with additional tips to avoid COVID-19.
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Multilateralism à la carte
Carsten Bockemuehl | December 18, 2020Much has been written about the changing international order and the ‘crisis’ of multilateralism in recent months. The winds of change have been howling, and it’s time for Australia to step up to the challenge.
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Reducing Australia’s trade dependence on China
Michael Shoebridge | December 17, 2020China’s use of trade bans to place political pressure on Australia means we must find alternative trading partners for a host of products, including iron ore and clean energy.
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How resilient is the insurance industry against climate change?
Victoria Tichá | December 17, 2020New research finds there are several steps insurers can take to improve the way they assess and manage the impacts of climate change on the community.
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Eastern wetlands face further decline
Isabelle Dubach | December 17, 2020Recent rains have seen Eastern Australia’s remaining wetlands and waterbirds partially recover from the drought, but drainage and water use by agriculture continues to threaten their future.
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Counterpoint by Mark Nicol – Autocracy, democracy, meritocracy
Mark Nicol | December 16, 2020A revamped political system based on meritocracy, rather than lumpen authoritarianism or traditional democracy, might be the best way to escape the West’s current political and social malaise.
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The billion-dollar backpack
Jeff Jarvis | December 16, 2020Backpackers are worth a billion dollars to the Australian economy as both tourists and temporary workers and their return to these shores will be an important part of the post-COVID economic recovery.
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Five years on from the Paris Agreement
Jeremy Moss | December 16, 2020Five years after the Paris agreements, Australia’s government and coal producers are still to take meaningful action to tackle accelerating climate change.
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2020 – Silver linings
Catherine Fritz-Kalish | December 15, 2020Global Access Partners, the publisher of Open Forum, tackled the challenges posed by COVID social distancing measures by successfully moving its administration and events online.
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Taking Australia’s digital pulse
Nick Hull | December 15, 2020The sixth edition of Australia’s Digital Pulse by Deloitte Access Economics highlights the significant role information and communications technology (ICT) plays in almost everything we do.
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Slavery and society
Alan Stevenson | December 15, 2020Society should define tasks best left to humans, as well as what can safely be left to autonomous machines, as once a machine takes over a task it will not be an easy to reclaim it.
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Arvanitakis on education: The trust project
James Arvanitakis | December 14, 2020Populist distrust of science and deepening political divides have hampered the response to climate change and coronavirus. Rather than merely decry these trends, academics have the chance to do something about it.
