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Australia needs a coastguard
Jennifer Parker | December 3, 2024A new maritime service with smaller, cheaper craft could boost Australia’s maritime security at a time when it’s under more threat than ever.
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Planning food security
Andrew Henderson | December 3, 2024A new industry-led approach lays the groundwork for the national food security preparedness planning that Australia desperately needs.
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China’s mobile security threat
Justin Bassi | December 3, 2024Australia needs to list critical infrastructure and sectors from which suppliers of concern from China and Russia are prohibited, and that should start with electric cars.
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Sausages and cauldrons: Making law and policy in 21st Century Australia
David Rowe | December 2, 2024The divergent fates of proposed federal legislation to restrict social media use by children and online gambling adverts for everyone highlight the complex interplay of public concern, political convenience and vested interest lobbying which shapes policy making in contemporary Australia.
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Mental gymnastics
Brandon Munn | December 2, 2024The brain is a marvel of efficiency, honed by thousands of years of evolution so it can adapt and thrive in a rapidly changing world. Yet, despite decades of research, the mystery of how the brain achieves this has remained elusive.
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Why sanctions don’t work
Babak RezaeeDaryakenari | December 2, 2024Economic sanctions have long been used as a nonviolent foreign policy tool to influence the behaviour and policies of targeted states. While they are often effective in prompting policy changes in democratic countries, they frequently fall short in altering the course of authoritarian regimes.
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The library of Babel
Roger Kreuz | December 1, 2024The internet is often described as one of humanity’s great achievements. But like any other resource, it’s important to give serious thought to how it is maintained and managed – lest we end up confronting the dystopian vision imagined by Jorge Luis Borges over 80 years ago.
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Stirring the mud
Georgina Lancaster | December 1, 2024Conflicting interests and geopolitical competition are complicating proposals for deep sea mining in the Pacific.
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Space precinct
Rajeswari Pillai Rajagopalan | December 1, 2024Nation states must revitalise existing measures and consider them in international space policy debates to solve the ongoing difficulties in framing new rules for space governance.
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Hey, Vlad! China is not your friend
Fergus Neilson | November 30, 2024China has positioned itself as an ally of Russia in Putin’s brutal war of conquest in Ukraine, but over time demographic, economic and strategic realities suggest it will be China that dominates Russia.
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Exercise your life expectancy
Open Forum | November 30, 2024If everyone was as active as the top 25 per cent of the population, people over the age of 40 could add five years to their life, according to a new study led by Griffith University researchers.
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Tackling racism in Australia
Amanuel Elias | November 30, 2024The Australian Human Rights Commission has launched a comprehensive “National Anti-racism Framework” to tackle, if not eliminate, racism in all sectors of society and government.
