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Drone wars
Erik Davis | June 17, 2025Australia continues to weigh the value of spending billions of dollars on submarines which might take decades to procure when the immediate development of cheap drones might be far more effective.
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Sport for all
Konstantine Panegyres | June 17, 2025There’s nothing new about our modern love of playing and watching sports, with ancient depictions of ball games dating back into antiquity.
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All the slop that’s fit to print
Open Forum | June 17, 2025An ever greater percentage of the news that people consume is generated by AI, rather than people.
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Funding small business innovation
Colette Southam | June 16, 2025Innovation isn’t confined to the headquarters of big tech companies and university laboratories. Small and medium enterprises are a powerhouse of economic growth in Australia but can struggle to secure the investment they need to turn big ideas into commercial products.
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Taming cyclones
Open Forum | June 16, 2025Seeding clouds with aerosols could hold the key to stopping potentially destructive cyclones in their tracks, according to a first-of-its-kind study from The Australian National University.
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The age of revolutions
John West | June 16, 2025Fareed Zakaria’s new book explores how periods of rapid economic and technological change often unleash cultural anxiety and political backlash.
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Labor’s productivity puzzle
Stephen Bartos | June 16, 2025Higher productivity has quickly emerged as an economic reform priority for Labor’s second term but it remains ‘hard to measure and difficult to shift’.
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Australia’s cottage defence industry
David Uren | June 15, 2025Australia’s defence manufacturers are essentially a cottage industry, with the average supplier employing only 13 people and achieving net annual sales of about $2.2 million.
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Boosting internet resilience
Jocelinn Kang | June 15, 2025Without a unified approach that connects submarine cable protection to terrestrial fibre, power, cooling and workforce planning, we risk compounding vulnerabilities and missing economic growth opportunities.
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Stop talking, start punching
Open Forum | June 15, 2025Australia must stop talking about being a middle power that punches above its weight. Talking about it is far less interesting to the rest of the world than Australia actually doing it.
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Businesses must invest in productivity
John Hawkins | June 14, 2025Rather than blame their workforce, or wait for more government handouts and initiatives, businesses must invest in productivity improvements for themselves.
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Trump’s Pacific own goal
Alan Tidwell | June 14, 2025The second Trump administration’s gutting of key international development agencies has severely undermined its ostensible goal of combating Chinese influence in the Pacific, so what can it do to repair its regional strategy?
