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30 years of climate vacillation
Kate Crowley | October 19, 2021To see bone fide change in Australia’s climate response, the government must not repeat the mistakes of the past: politicising climate change, delaying the clean energy transition, persisting with ineffective policies, and offsetting rather than reducing emissions.
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Confronting state fragility and democratic decline
Anastasia Kapetas | October 19, 2021The return of strategic competition between states is an established geopolitical trend, but states themselves are getting more fragile, according to the 2021 Fund for Peace Fragile States Index.
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Plastic litter is a beach
Diane Nazaroff | October 19, 2021Ten years of citizen science data has informed a UNSW study which found plastic dominates the rubbish found on Australian beaches.
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Envisioning a zero-carbon future
Con Anagnostopoulos | October 18, 2021Australia remains one of the world’s highest per capita emitters and fossil fuel exporters and is under increasing pressure to commit to carbon neutrality by 2050. How could we get to zero net emissions by this much talked about deadline?
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Appeasement of China won’t save Taiwan
Peter Jennings | October 18, 2021The democratic world has done little to oppose Communist China’s militarisation of the South China Sea, wholesale cyber-theft and brutal internal repression. Further appeasement of Xi’s designs on Taiwan would be disastrous, but deterring an attack can work.
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Arvanitakis on American politics: Biden’s score card
James Arvanitakis | October 16, 2021Twelve months after Donald Trump’s tumultuous election defeat, how can we assess the achievements of the Biden Administration and the challenges which still lie ahead? Here are four areas worth reflecting on.
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The value of creativity
Ben Knight | October 16, 2021What is creativity, and why is it essential in our lives?
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AI is a double-edged sword
Toby Walsh | October 16, 2021As the perils and wonders of artificial intelligence begin to permeate our lives, the ‘IPCC report for AI’ calls for action to ensure a safe future.
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Cracks in the system
Open Forum | October 15, 2021It is almost impossible for purchasers to predict whether their new apartment will have building defects, a report into the apartment building industry has found.
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Albanese needs to walk the talk on Labor’s integrity issue
Michelle Grattan | October 15, 2021The Labor leader has campaigned relentlessly against the government on a range of integrity issues and so to soft pedal on his party’s own ‘branch stacking’ scandal smacks of double standards and a failure of leadership.
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Covid-19’s toll on Papua New Guinea
Hillary Mansour | October 14, 2021Covid-19 has triggered cascading impacts in PNG’s health, economic, social, civil and administrative sectors while undermining the government’s capacity to address them.
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What does a ‘Covid-normal’ workplace look like?
Rachel Packham | October 14, 2021Workplaces are changing, offering more flexibility than ever, says a UNSW Canberra report. But not everyone has fallen in love with hybrid ways of working.
