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Learning from disaster
Janet Stanley | May 29, 2020Australia was largely unprepared for either the major bushfires of the summer or the current pandemic. The government’s response to each was very difficult, but both hold lessons as we plan to face future challenges.
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Getting the cat back into the bag
Lachlan Gilbert | May 29, 2020The Felixer, an autonomous device that can target and cull feral cats in the wild, could be key in rebuilding Australia’s decimated native animal populations.
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Embracing cloud computing in national security
John Coyne | May 28, 2020Policy makers should look beyond current technical security standards to unlock the capability benefit that cloud computing can bring to Australia’s national security.
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How Covid-19 infected global trade
David Uren | May 28, 2020The head of the WTO, Robert Azevedo, abruptly announced his resignation on 14 May. He didn’t explain his reason, but as the guardian of the global trade rules, it could well have been despair.
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Gigging to recovery
Open Forum | May 28, 2020Hundreds of thousands of Australians are out of work as a result of COVID-19, but some may find new jobs through digital platforms, particularly in areas like food delivery, writing, law, accountancy, home maintenance, IT or graphic design.
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Embracing the new normal
Terry Bowles | May 27, 2020COVID-19 restrictions have gone on long enough to establish new habits. So what do we want to keep doing and stop doing, both individually and as a community?
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Protecting anonymous data
Jessica Clarence | May 27, 2020The concerns raised by the COVIDSafe app suggest that Australians care a lot about privacy, at least when information to be held by the government is involved. Let’s turn that passion into action, starting with bolstering the privacy protections on large datasets.
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Could wealth hidden in tax havens help pay for COVID-19?
Rodney Brown | May 27, 2020Late last month, Denmark, France and Poland banned companies registered in tax havens from receiving government COVID-19 bailouts. Should Australia do the same?
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Facing up to facial recognition
Niels Wouters | May 26, 2020Facial recognition technology is one tool in the fight against COVID-19, but once the pandemic ends, is surveillance tech going to entrench itself in our society?
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Life expectancy stalls as inequality widens
Open Forum | May 26, 2020Growing socioeconomic and geographical inequalities are contributing to a stagnation of Australian life expectancy, new research published in Australian Population Studies shows.
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Epigenetics holds the key to new blood treatments
Open Forum | May 26, 2020New research into epigenetics will help scientists investigate new treatments for blood disorders.
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Could treaties help close the political gap in Indigenous health?
Dominic O'Sullivan | May 25, 2020New Zealand’s Treaty of Waitangi shows the potential such agreements might hold for health and other issues in Australia.