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Asylum seekers: what now?
Michael Liffman | September 18, 2024In the face of the continuing controversies and hardships in Australia’s refugee and asylum seeker policies and practices, Michael Liffman proposes consideration of an initiative he first suggested over ten years ago. It is not, he notes, an entirely novel idea, and has much in common with the ill-fated Malaysia policy that received such lamentable treatment by Australia’s political processes in 2011.
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Will your face be your fortune?
Sasha Wang | September 18, 2024You used to pay for everything by cash, then came cheques, credit cards and taps of a mobile phone, but would you be willing to pay for your supermarket trolley by just showing your face?
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Rounding up the e-scooters
Hiruni Nuwanthika Kegalle | September 18, 2024Dumped E-bikes and e-scooters litter our pavements, while in use they menace pedestrians and cause danger on the roads, but a new survey of their use in Melbourne offers some strategies to at least minimise the parking problem.
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Sports diplomacy
Andrew Horton | September 17, 2024Sports diplomacy can be a potent weapon in the Pacific to improve ties with democratic nations and resits China’s coercive grasp for political power and social influence.
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Great ‘techspectations’
Open Forum | September 17, 2024Though Australians like to embrace new technologies, concerns over security, privacy, and the loss of human interaction remain.
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The high price of loyalty
Katie Miller | September 17, 2024Customers were once rewarded for loyalty to a firm’s products and services, but more unscrupulous operators now offer discounts to new consumers at the expense of long-standing ones.
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The holy creed of Carbonus Rex
Roger Chao | September 17, 202465 million years ago, a natural act wiped out the dinosaurs, but today it’s the dinosaurs of the fossil fuel industry who imperil life on Earth.
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What the experts say on…social media restrictions
Open Forum | September 16, 2024The Australian government has committed itself to imposing an age limit on social media before the next election, but is this a desirable or workable solution?
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Tech bros and media barons
Andrew Dodd | September 16, 2024Is the world better off with “tech bros” like Elon Musk who demand unlimited freedom to brazenly assert their influence, or old-style media moguls who spin fine-sounding rhetoric about freedom of the press but exert influence under the cover of journalism?
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China overhauls the USA in technology research
Danielle Cave | September 16, 2024China has overtaken the United States as the overwhelming leader in technological research over the last two decades, according to ASPI’s Critical Technology Tracker.
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Commercialising research with Queensland’s SMEs
Open Forum | September 16, 2024CSIRO is inviting Queensland-based small to medium-sized enterprises and academic researchers to collaborate through the new Regional University Industry Collaboration program to translate scientific potential into economic benefits for regional communities.
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A nation of apologies
Roger Chao | September 16, 2024A lyrical perspective on the fraught political and constitutional issue of Aboriginal rights in this country.
