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Saving for a rainy day
Derek Lotts | June 25, 2022After 30 years of growth, 2 years of COVID funding and 5 months of Russia’s terrible war in Ukraine, the economic chickens are coming home to roost for Australia, but individuals can still take steps to protect their financial position.
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Putin waits for the West to get bored
Matthew Sussex | June 24, 2022The West is growing weary of Russia’s war in Ukraine, despite leaving Ukraine to do all the fighting, and Vladimir Putin is counting on the free world’s short attention span and lack of moral fibre to grind his way to European domination.
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Drought need not lead to disaster
Ilan Kelman | June 24, 2022Australia is no stranger to the problems caused by droughts, which are only set to increase in intensity and duration as climate change begins to bite, but lessons learned around the world can help stop droughts becoming humanitarian disasters.
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Battling the super-bugs
Jeremy Barr | June 24, 2022The over-use of antibiotics has reduced their effectiveness against many strains of bacteria, but the medical employment of phages – natural predators of bacteria – could help contain the growth of ‘super bugs’.
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Smart farming can transform Australian agriculture
Charlie Fletcher | June 23, 2022In the wake of dwindling water supplies and persistent drought conditions, smart technology is helping Australia to secure its water future, and it can do the same for agriculture.
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Building health system resilience
Open Forum | June 23, 2022A team of Australian researchers have outlined a range of strategies to help the healthcare system respond better when disaster strikes and make sure nobody is left behind.
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Overcoming our fear of rejection
Ben Knight | June 23, 2022Humans once relied on tribal and family groups for their survival, and so we’re programmed on an evolutionary level to fear social rejection, but we can learn to deal with it when it happens in the modern world.
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A big state boost for early childhood education
Wendy Boyd | June 22, 2022Whatever the political calculations behind the major investments in early childhood education announced by NSW and Victoria, it’s welcome news for parents, teachers and children.
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Putin’s Stalinist plan for Ukraine
Paul Maddrell | June 22, 2022Putin’s quest to conquor the whole of Ukraine has stalled, but his attempts to absorb the east of the country through brutal force and ethic cleansing echo the approach of his main role model.
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Resilience and traditional culture in the Pacific
Apisalome Movono | June 22, 2022Traditional ways helped people in the Pacific survive the economic problems of the COVID pandemic, and future development should also complement the Pacific way and uplift the “mana” of Pacific peoples, rather than aim to replace it.
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Prosecuting Putin
Victor Peskin | June 21, 2022The capture and prosecution of Serbian war criminal Slobodan Milosevic offers a playbook for bringing Vladimir Putin to justice for his savage assault on Ukraine.
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Living on the edge
Open Forum | June 21, 2022Lovers of extreme sports are often dismissed as adrenalin junkies, thrillseekers and reckless risktakers, but Southern Cross University psychologist Dr Eric Brymer wants people to cast aside those negative perceptions.
