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Collaboration not captivity
David Fawcett | October 22, 2021AUKUS does not make Australia captive to a foreign agenda. Instead, it opens doors to enhanced collaboration that will build collective capability and resilience, enhancing Australia’s ability to partner with like-minded nations to deter threats and contribute to stability and security in the Indo-Pacific.
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The hidden costs of the wildlife trade
Open Forum | October 22, 2021An international team of experts, including researchers from the University of Adelaide, has highlighted that the illegal and unsustainable global wildlife trade has bigger ramifications on our everyday lives than you might think.
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Not-so-free trade in the Asia Pacific
Shaun Cameron | October 22, 2021Free trade facilitated rapid economic growth in the Asia-Pacific region, but new trade barriers, geopolitical rivalries, the COVID-19 pandemic, and regional inequality are threatening this expansion.
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What to expect at COP26
Jacqueline Peel | October 21, 2021With so many vital issues up for discussion at COP26, ensuring a successful outcome was always going to be a challenge, even without the wildcard of COVID-19.
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Watching the watchdogs
Yee-Fui Ng | October 21, 2021Many current COVID-19 recovery plans are not compatible with the Paris Agreement on climate change and will have long-term health implications, according to a global report featuring Australian authors.
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A tale of devotion
Jen Webb | October 21, 2021Hannah Kent’s latest novel describes the lives and loves of women bound for the new colony of South Australia.
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The “new normal” of post-COVID workplaces
Kate Bettes | October 20, 2021Many organisations will retain hybrid working to improve collaboration, communication, productivity and innovation as COVID restrictions ease.
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How China will lose the world
John West | October 20, 2021China seems to be on a path towards global leadership. However, according to Luke Patey’s new book How China Loses, with middle powers and developing countries pushing back against China’s overreach, China is unlikely command influence over global affairs.
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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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Mobilising for resilience
Joanne Nicholson | October 19, 2021Mobilising society, rather than individual institutions, will be required to face a range of threats from war, grey-zone conflict, terrorism and organised crime to domestic and offshore natural disasters.
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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.
