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Mitigating Maribyrnong River floods
Bernie O'Kane | July 14, 2026The Maribyrnong River is a perennial river in the Port Phillip catchment which runs through Melbourne’s north–western suburbs and, for all its wildlife and beauty, can also pose a flood risk as ever more housing is built on the plain.
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Regional literacy
Daweena Tia Motwany | July 14, 2026Australia’s mobilisation of its ‘amplified middle power diplomacy’ has been a feature as of late, with new agreements signed with nations across the Pacific. But as these agreements come through, a new parliamentary committee report lays bare Australia’s slow death in understanding the region it belongs to.
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Gravitation waves and neutron stars
Kelly Gourdji | July 14, 2026Collisions between neutron stars are some of the biggest events in the universe and create ripples in space and time that we can detect on Earth.
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When good neighbours become good friends
Joanne Wallis | July 13, 2026History tells us that good neighbourliness is the only approach capable of producing the durable regional relationships that Australia’s long-term security depends on.
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Waking up to the risks of AI
Kimberlee Weatherall | July 13, 2026Will the Australian government’s AI Safety Institute be enough to keep Australians safe from what could be one of the most powerful, rapidly advancing technologies the world has known?
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Lost in space
Isabelle Kaiko | July 13, 2026Some neurological disorders affect people’s ability to navigate their neighborhood or even their own home, the more the rest of us rely on our phones to follow directions, the worse we all get at finding our own way through the world.
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The rules of power
Robert Wihtol | July 12, 2026From Ukraine to the Persian Gulf, the world is at war and Jack Watling provides a step-by-step analysis of how the global rules of power have changed in his new book “Statecraft”.
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Don’t let China isolate Taiwan
Nathan Attrill | July 12, 2026Beijing wants international governments and institutions to see engagement with Taiwan as a source of trouble to avoid but the world’s democracies should do the opposite and make routine engagement with Taiwan more resilient and harder for Beijing to disrupt.
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A history of pain
Lars Arendt-Nielsen | July 12, 2026Although pain is a universal experience, the way we understand it has changed dramatically over time.
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PM for Plutarch
Matthew Sharpe | July 11, 2026The writings of Plutarch of Chaeronia were an important part of humanistic education in the West for many centuries, influencing everyone from Michel de Montaigne and Francis Bacon to William Shakespeare, and the practical nature of his essays keep them timely in our social media age
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The end of romance
Joanne Anderton | July 11, 2026Set on an inhospitable future earth, Maria Takolander’s The End of Romance is a violent dystopia and, given the current state of the world, is all the more relatable for that.
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Snowcrash
Andrew B. Watkins | July 11, 2026Another poor start to Australia’s shrinking snow season underlines how rapidly climate change is altering our weather.
