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The revelations of a Prime Minister’s home
Sam Malloy | February 24, 2021The recent purchase of former prime minister Gough Whitlam’s home in Cabramatta, south-west Sydney to create a heritage site will interest Australians who are passionate about politics, leadership and social history.
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Order in the House
Abigail Kaplan | February 24, 2021Order in the House is a new podcast created by four university students from Sydney which aims to inform millennial Australians about political ideologies and events in an engaging and relatable way,
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Government focuses on strategic shaping as DFAT drops soft-power review
Graeme Dobell | February 24, 2021Until the last decade, Australia was the pre-eminent international media voice in the South Pacific, but we’re falling behind our allies and competitors.
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Resilience – To be or not to be
Open Forum | February 23, 2021To strengthen our resilience on a global national and individual levels, we should all join forces and work together but leadership will be required to translate this vision into reality.
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Why Eddie and ‘the boys’ need to quit the hubris and do better
Jim McKay | February 23, 2021The ignominious downfall of Eddie McGuire after 23 years as president of Collingwood Football Club dominated media headlines for several weeks but the celebrity hype has distracted attention from the real issue – racism – and the value of providing a framework to change club culture.
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10 lessons from the COVID crisis
Open Forum | February 23, 2021Australia ranked eighth in the world ‘s Top 10 countries to manage their COVID-19 response well, with New Zealand, Vietnam, Taiwan, Thailand, Cyprus, Rwanda and Iceland leading the way in an in-depth study by international experts.
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Tabi on racial matters: Let’s do better in normalising the talk about what racism is; through acceptance, knowledge and attitudes
Gloria Tabi | February 22, 2021It’s everyone’s responsibility to combat racism, and younger workers want a work environment that is embedded with equality, diversity, inclusion and safety.
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Can 2021 still be Australia’s year of Southeast Asia?
Melissa Conley Tyler | February 22, 2021With multiple initiatives set to launch, 2021 was supposed to be the year Australia pivoted to Southeast Asia. Recent events in Myanmar will make this more challenging, but the underlying reasons for investing in Southeast Asia remain.
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Counterpoint by Mark Nicol – What if versus what Is
Mark Nicol | February 22, 2021The Western liberal tradition, and current progressive movements, are proving inadequate in the face of the existential environmental threat to the human species.
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COVID helped restore our faith in government and each other
Open Forum | February 21, 2021A new survey of public trust and cohesion finds the pandemic has brought us together, rather than driving us apart.
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The new normal should be better than before
Ross Garnaut | February 21, 2021Talk about returning the economy to normal after the crisis is misguided. Before the crisis, normal was nowhere near good enough and we can do better now.
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Judicial repression in Hong Kong
Brendan Clift | February 21, 2021Communist China’s remorseless strangulation of freedom in Hong Kong extends to its courts as well as politics and security.