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Let Iranians decide their own future
Tina Hosseini | March 15, 2026The outcome of the current conflict in the Middle East cannot be predicted but it should hopefully see a transfer of space and power back to the Iranian people.
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Self driving cars may cause more stress than driving
Open Forum | March 15, 2026It isn’t just cars and drivers – the relationship with autonomous systems and supervisors is changing across aviation, industry and beyond at a staggering pace.
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Protecting kids from AI
Sarah Whitcombe-Dobbs | March 15, 2026Exposing young children to AI content could have irreversible consequences.
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Learning the lessons from “robodebt”
Yee-Fui Ng | March 14, 2026If we want to avoid another Robodebt, the government needs to look at broader reform on automated government decision-making and measures to strengthen the public service.
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Building social cohesion
Keiran Hardy | March 14, 2026Social cohesion is a social process that emerges from policies and programs, information flows and everyday interactions and requires intentional investment from all levels of society.
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What’s the point of a PhD now?
Toby Murray | March 14, 2026Why should bright young students work for years to get a PhD if senior academics won’t engage them for research projects as its cheaper and easier to autogenerate slop with ChatGPT?
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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.
