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Embracing business vulnerabilities
Mariano Heyden | August 25, 2020With COVID-19 exposing the fragility of our companies, the best-placed will be those with CEOs who understand the shortcomings, and the measures for managing them.
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Could the new ‘tech tax’ save journalism?
Open Forum | August 25, 2020Australia could be the first country to support journalism by diverting profits from Facebook and Google using competition law.
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Beware disinformation around COVID vaccines
Elise Thomas | August 24, 2020Policymakers, media outlets, social media platforms and vaccine manufacturers should be aware that politically motivated disinformation is only likely to increase as the race for a Covid-19 vaccine intensifies.
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COVID-19 and Australian aid in the Pacific
Terence Wood | August 24, 2020Above and beyond the COVID crisis, if Australia really wants to help the Pacific, it needs to be a global citizen. Australia can afford to increase its aid budget as aid currently represents less than one per cent of federal spending.
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New frailty index could improve aged care outcomes
Open Forum | August 24, 2020A new frailty index using historical data from more than 900,000 older Australians could improve aged care and health outcomes for vulnerable older people.
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The martyrdom of Alexei Navalny
William Partlett | August 23, 2020As protests in Belarus continue, the poisoning of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny shows that Russian dictator Vladimir Putin is equally afraid of losing his iron grip on power.
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How can businesses build trust between humans and AI?
Victoria Tichá | August 23, 2020With companies increasingly handing decisions over to AI, tech giants like Google and Microsoft have to navigate the ethical challenges posed by machines.
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Industrial policy won’t cure COVID woes
ANU Editorial Board | August 23, 2020COVID-19 has seen governments unleash a fresh wave of industry policy as politicians abandon markets to boost their preferred industries, but it may end up doing more harm than good.
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Complying with Victorian guidelines on using recycled water
Max Thomas | August 22, 2020Major amendments to Victoria’s Environment Protection Act are expected to be passed in 2021, and this paper offers professionals and others a standard method for calculating infrastructure requirements in agricultural water recycling proposals.
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Why who gets to tell Australian stories matters
James Arvanitakis | August 22, 2020As a democratic society, we are reliant on a strong and representative fourth estate to balance power relations and hold the powerful to account. In a multicultural society, only a more inclusive approach will lead to greater relevance to the population.
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Crazy like a flying fox
Open Forum | August 22, 2020New research led by scientists at Western Sydney University and published in BMC Biology shows that flying-foxes are always on the move among a vast network of roosts, creating key challenges for their management and conservation in Australia.
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Counterpoint by Mark Nicol – Beyond the constant growth economy
Mark Nicol | August 22, 2020A conscious policy of global depopulation may be the only way to ensure a sustainable human future, in partnership with a radical retooling of the economy to preserve, rather than consume, the Earth’s resources.