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A jump to the right
Ibi Losoncz | September 15, 2026The rise of far-right politics in Australia and across the west is not a rejection of mainstream values but an embrace of an extreme version of them.
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Would you like microplastics with your coffee?
Open Forum | September 15, 2026Single-use paper cups used for takeaway coffee and other beverages release millions of microplastic particles when exposed to hot liquid, University of Queensland researchers have found.
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Pause AI
Andrew Cullen | September 15, 2026Leaders of the major AI firms are flirting with the idea of agreeing to pause development, but is this to save money and freeze their advantage, rather than any genuine concern about the potential impact of the technology?
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AI and after
David Wroe | September 14, 2026Everything changes if we achieve superintelligence. And while even the world’s most accomplished experts across economics, national security, politics, social affairs and technology haven’t settled on the precise direction of change, we know it will be huge.
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Soalaupule
Emma Gerhardy | September 14, 2026International security has never suffered from a shortage of expertise. What it often struggles with is perspective, and the Samoan concept of “Soalaupule” could help.
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From Bin Laden to Bondi
Justin Bassi | September 14, 2026The Islamist terror attacks against America 25 years ago and Bali the year after brought the nation together, but the Bondi massacre seems to have driven Australians further apart.
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A fly trapped in amber
Jack Jarmon | September 13, 2026Vladimir Putin’s grand strategy to gain control of Ukraine has degenerated into an inextricable military morass and a vicious cycle of sunk costs. He has entangled Russian society in an endless war that he cannot win and cannot afford to end.
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The castle
Alexander Howard | September 13, 2026Jon Ronson’s new book explores a generation of men adrift in a world of rapid cultural change and economic disempowerment in which traditional roles have disappeared or been disparaged leaving only madness or despair to fill the void.
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A browned off land
Mark Kenny | September 13, 2026Australian has flat wages growth, stagnant productivity and dwindling purchasing power at the supermarket so is it any wonder that the only things consistently growing are anger, distrust, and a sense that the economy is either broken, or worse – being run for someone else?
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Gambling with our lives
Michael Noetel | September 12, 2026The AI companies which stand to make trillions from the technology think it’s worth risking the lives of everyone else on the planet to achieve their goals.
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Gondwanaland
Bill Collins | September 12, 2026Some 550 million years ago, the Earth looked very different to what it does today, as the Southern Hemisphere was dominated by an enormous, single continent known as Gondwana.
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It’s the economy, stupid
Carol Johnson | September 12, 2026The economy is not be the only explanation for the success of One Nation, but it is an essential part of the perceptual glue that holds various populist narratives together which both Labor and the Coalition are struggling to counter.
