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Boosting rural resilience
Robyn McNeil | March 13, 2026Psychological readiness for rural Australians can be just as vital as emergency kits in weathering the risks from fires and floods.
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Zero stars
Jason Harris | March 13, 2026The scathing inquiries into the money laundering, organised crime, large-scale fraud and foreign interference activities within Star Casinos should offer a wake up call for Australian executives across the economy.
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Australia is right to help defend Gulf states
Jennifer Parker | March 13, 2026While the outcome of the conflict remains far from certain and few people would pretend to know how a war of this scale will unfold, Australia is right to support the US and the defence of the Gulf states under attack from Iranian drones and missiles.
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The changing face of terrorism
Alexander Howard | March 12, 2026The Iranian revolution installed an Islamic regime which funded and transformed global terrorism, replacing left‑wing radicalism with religious fundamentalism.
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Into the manosphere
Steven Roberts | March 12, 2026Louis Theroux’s new Netflix documentary explores the world of ‘manosphere’ influencers and podcasters and their appeal to young men in a world which not only doesn’t seem to need them, but actively despises them.
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Beware of zombies
Seth Robinson | March 12, 2026Zombie fiction imagines a world that has been changed forever, but also offers hope that individuals can still resist and repel despair and assimilation, rather than one than succumb to it without a fight.
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Don’t let AI do your thinking for you
Misia Temler | March 11, 2026It’s tempting to offload your thinking to artificial intelligence but cognitive science shows why that’s a bad idea. For a successful relationship with AI, we need to exercise all our mental skills – otherwise we really do risk losing them.
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USA-Iran war highlights Australia’s fuel vulnerability
Raelene Lockhorst | March 11, 2026Rather than treating fuel security purely as a stockpiling problem, Australia should think about distributed fuel resilience, including larger northern storage facilities, greater redundancy in import terminals and expanded capacity to move fuel across the continent during disruption.
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The Milky Bar kid
Bernard Paul Corden | March 11, 2026Kevin Rudd was seen as a breath of fresh air after replacing the long serving John Howard as Australia’s Prime Minister in 2007 but leadership battles with Julia Gillard and a failure to embrace radical reform doomed his premiership to failure.
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Bridging the great divides
John Coyne | March 10, 2026Maintaining social cohesion is a crucial factor in preserving Australia’s security but policy makers shouldn’t make it a national-security issue.
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The sea, the sea
Sean Andrews | March 10, 2026The current conflict in the Middle East highlights the importance of maintaining Australia’s naval and commercial fleets and improving home grown oil refining capacity.
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This is my truth, now tell me yours
Bernard Paul Corden | March 10, 2026British Labour icon Nye Bevan popularised Friedrich Nietzsche’s phrase “This is my truth, now tell me yours” 80 years ago, but the challenge remains as aposite as ever.
