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Where there’s no will, there’s no way
Meg Tapia | September 10, 2026Australia isn’t prepared for conflict unless it can build and defend the will to fight and the national civil preparedness and resilience inquiry, adopted in July, offers an opportunity to begin that conversation.
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A is for app
Open Forum | September 10, 2026A new Flinders University study of primary school children suggests a phonics reading app can accelerate early reading while helping teachers identify students needing extra support.
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All the pieces of the puzzle
Open Forum | September 10, 2026Efforts to prevent dementia may be placing too much responsibility on people’s choices while overlooking the wider social and environmental conditions that shape brain health, according to new Curtin University research published in The Lancet Public Health.
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Turning off the algorithm
Rashina Hoda | September 9, 2026Social media companies have controlled what users see on their feeds for years and the “Digital Duty of Care” announced recently offers hope that consumers can regain some control of their social media feeds and online experience in general.
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Stranger than fiction
Eloise Dennis | September 9, 2026Analysts and policymakers looking to explore and plan for possible futures should read more science fiction.
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Answer the question
Luke Beck | September 9, 2026If top bureaucrats don’t enjoy being criticised and mocked on social media for giving evasive answers during parliamentary hearings they could always just answer the questions being asked.
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A changed world
Wesley Morgan | September 8, 2026A landmark UN report says the world will overshoot the 1.5°C climate target. As damage from climate change mounts, leaders must do the work and begin rapidly cutting emissions to keep the goal of net-zero by 2050 alive.
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Everyone’s a robot
Helen Trenos | September 8, 2026“Day (After Day) in the Life of the Useless” by Will O’Mahony is a firecracker comedy about life in a world dominated by AI.
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Artificial altruism
David Wroe | September 8, 2026Politicians and policymakers declare AI the most transformative technology of our lifetimes, so when OpenAI announces that its rogue agents spontaneously formed their own hierarchy and sacrificed themselves for the agent swarm, nobody with money in the game seem to care. The rest of us should be afraid. Very afraid.
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Intensive early years intervention works
Anne Kennedy | September 7, 2026One quarter of Australian kids are ‘developmentally vulnerable’ when they start school but quality childcare can help them catch up.
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Beyond the fringe
Mario Peucker | September 7, 2026A growing sense of cultural and economic grievance is driving support for right wing and authoritarian parties across the West.
