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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.
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25 years ago, today
Adam McCombs | September 11, 2026The 9/11 terrorist attacks killed almost 3,000 people and provoked decades of war and recrimination. A quarter of a century later, will the West’s national security systems be resilient enough to withstand the next sudden shock without losing sight of the broader strategic environment?
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Do something
Susan Luckman | September 11, 2026Fears over AI replacing swathes of knowledge workers echoes the displacement of handicrafts by the industrial revolution, but interest in these handicrafts is growing again in revulsion against both.
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Reading, writing and arithmetic
Therese N. Hopfenbeck | September 11, 2026The latest international survey of student reading and writing skills around the world shows a common decline, and Australia isn’t bucking the trend, with screen addiction and lack of respect for teachers offering potential explanations.
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Where there’s no will, there’s no way
Meg Tapia | September 10, 2026Australia isn’t prepared for conflict unless it can build and defend the will to fight and the national civil preparedness and resilience inquiry, adopted in July, offers an opportunity to begin that conversation.
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A is for app
Open Forum | September 10, 2026A new Flinders University study of primary school children suggests a phonics reading app can accelerate early reading while helping teachers identify students needing extra support.
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All the pieces of the puzzle
Open Forum | September 10, 2026Efforts to prevent dementia may be placing too much responsibility on people’s choices while overlooking the wider social and environmental conditions that shape brain health, according to new Curtin University research published in The Lancet Public Health.
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Turning off the algorithm
Rashina Hoda | September 9, 2026Social media companies have controlled what users see on their feeds for years and the “Digital Duty of Care” announced recently offers hope that consumers can regain some control of their social media feeds and online experience in general.
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Stranger than fiction
Eloise Dennis | September 9, 2026Analysts and policymakers looking to explore and plan for possible futures should read more science fiction.
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Answer the question
Luke Beck | September 9, 2026If top bureaucrats don’t enjoy being criticised and mocked on social media for giving evasive answers during parliamentary hearings they could always just answer the questions being asked.
