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The power of persistence
David Ball | March 12, 2025Knowing what is going on in orbit is getting harder—yet hardly less necessary. But new technologies are emerging to cope with the challenge, including some that have come from Australian civilian research.
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Dig your own grave
Dilan Thampapillai | March 12, 2025Melbourne-based publishers Black Inc has asked authors to sign AI agreements but why should writers – or anyone else – help AI learn how to do their job and ultimately replace them?
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The ship of dreams
Roger Chao | March 12, 2025“The Ship of Dreams,” offers a poetic allegory about pride, hubris and the inevitable price that nature will demand from those with an inflated sense of power and invincibility.
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Be the change we want to see
ANU Editorial Board | March 11, 2025Complaining about President Donald Trump’s tariff imposts won’t change anyone’s mind, but Australia can take on the leadership role Trump’s America has abdicated – by abolishing, rather than raising, tariffs.
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New report offers snapshot of digital health in aged care
Open Forum | March 11, 2025Standardised data sharing is vital to connected and coordinated care across the aged care sector, according to a new report from CSIRO’s Australian e-Health Research Centre and the Digital Health Cooperative Research Centre.
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The measure of a man
Roger Chao | March 11, 2025Open Forum’s poet laureate offers powerful critique of toxic masculinity and calls for a more nurturing, emotionally intelligent understanding of what it means to be a man – one based on inner strength and virtue rather than external displays of power.
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Enough is enough?
David Andrews | March 10, 2025As Donald Trump and his administration seem determined to antagonise or completely abandon their allies, middle powers like Australia will have to decide when enough is enough.
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The robot is in
Lachlan Gilbert | March 10, 2025The immediacy of AI chatbots makes them an attractive alternative to human-to-human therapy that is expensive and often inconvenient. But while they may offer sensible advice, they aren’t infallible.
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Worst case scenario
Michael Pezzullo | March 10, 2025China’s imperialist designs on the region demand immediate strengthening of the nation’s defences, particularly as the United States withdraws from the alliances which have kept the peace for 70 years.
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Protecting gender equality
Isha Desai | March 9, 2025Women’s rights and protections are regressing on the international stage, from the Taliban’s erasure of women from public life to US President Donald Trump’s misogynistic rhetoric and decision to suspend USAID, and Australia should play its part in protecting women’s interests in the Indo-Pacific.
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Labor needs a refreshed message
Josh Sunman | March 9, 2025Anthony Albanese and the Labor Party’s hope of clinging to government in 2025 hinges on dramatically reshaping their pitch to voters more concerned about hip-pocket issues than broader economic messages.
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One people, one realm, one leader
Gregory Brown | March 9, 2025In what might have been the longest presidential address to Congress in American history—an hour and forty minutes without intermission—President Donald Trump delivered a performance on Tuesday night that was simultaneously grandiose, confrontational, optimistic and revealing of the direction in which he intended to take his administration and his country.
