Page 7 – Openforum https://www.openforum.com.au Open Forum offers an independent platform for Australian debate Wed, 27 Mar 2024 21:57:31 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.25 Listen to the people https://www.openforum.com.au/listen-to-the-people/ Sat, 02 Mar 2024 20:35:51 +0000 https://www.openforum.com.au/?p=46846 Although he once quipped that "You can never plan the future by the past" could the work of 18th-century political theorist Edmund Burke, famed for his cautionary take on the French Revolution, help modern democracies escape their current malaise?

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Nemesis https://www.openforum.com.au/nemesis/ Sat, 02 Mar 2024 20:28:23 +0000 https://www.openforum.com.au/?p=46895 A CSIRO team aboard research vessel (RV) Investigator has helped Heritage NSW solve a 120-year mystery with the discovery of the SS Nemesis, a 73-metre iron-hulled steamship that was lost at sea in 1904.

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Helping Ukraine to help ourselves https://www.openforum.com.au/helping-ukraine-to-help-ourselves-2/ Fri, 01 Mar 2024 21:17:57 +0000 https://www.openforum.com.au/?p=46856 To recall Margaret Thatcher’s choice turn of phrase to George H.W. Bush when confronting Saddam Hussein’s flagrant aggression against Kuwait in 1990, this is no time "to go wobbly" on Australia's support for Ukraine.

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Whatever happened to El Niño? https://www.openforum.com.au/whatever-happened-to-el-nino/ Fri, 01 Mar 2024 20:53:11 +0000 https://www.openforum.com.au/?p=46926 This summer was supposed to be dry and hot, and a scientist from UNSW Sydney explains why the current warm and wet El Niño cycle hasn’t behaved quite as we expected it to.

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Fat planet https://www.openforum.com.au/fat-planet/ Fri, 01 Mar 2024 20:52:39 +0000 https://www.openforum.com.au/?p=46966 While malnutrition remains an important issue in some countries, over a billion people around the world are now obese, with all the health problems this implies.

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Oxfam calls for climate action https://www.openforum.com.au/oxfam-calls-for-climate-action/ Fri, 01 Mar 2024 20:52:30 +0000 https://www.openforum.com.au/?p=46980 The ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations)-Australia Special Summit commences this week in Melbourne and Oxfam is calling for the Australian government and other world leaders attending to ramp up ambition to tackle the climate crisis in the region.

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Australia’s productivity problem https://www.openforum.com.au/new-insights-into-australias-productivity-problem/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 22:48:31 +0000 https://www.openforum.com.au/?p=46949 A new report from the Productivity Commission shows that labour productivity fell sharply in 2022-23, as a record-breaking increase in hours worked failed to generate a similar increase in economic output.

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Sabotage down under https://www.openforum.com.au/sabotage-down-under/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 22:48:25 +0000 https://www.openforum.com.au/?p=46941 The Western world is under constant attack from Russian, Chinese, Iranian and North Korean hackers, spies and saboteurs, and Australia is not immune from foreign intrusion.

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Boots on the ground https://www.openforum.com.au/boots-on-the-ground/ Thu, 29 Feb 2024 22:48:19 +0000 https://www.openforum.com.au/?p=46934 The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has said sending western troops to fight the Russians in Ukraine “could not be ruled out”.

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Trust your instincts https://www.openforum.com.au/trust-your-instincts/ Wed, 28 Feb 2024 20:00:22 +0000 https://www.openforum.com.au/?p=46907 We're surrounded by technology and spend decades honing our intellects at school and university but intuition - the ability to understand something without conscious reasoning - remains a powerful force in our lives, and can sometimes even be a life saver.

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Back to the Moon https://www.openforum.com.au/back-to-the-moon-3/ Wed, 28 Feb 2024 20:00:15 +0000 https://www.openforum.com.au/?p=46886 Late last week, the American company Intuitive Machines, in collaboration with NASA, celebrated “America’s return to the Moon” with a successful landing of its Odysseus spacecraft.

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The heat is on https://www.openforum.com.au/the-heat-is-on-5/ Wed, 28 Feb 2024 19:01:03 +0000 https://www.openforum.com.au/?p=46898 Temperatures in Sydney are tipped to reach 35 degrees today, and Australia's Climate Council is warning that the nation's capitals will endure twice as many days over 35 as they used to unless effective action is taken on global warming.

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