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The AI election
Cory Alpert | March 21, 2025The forthcoming Federal election will offer a test of how AI-driven information could shape Australia’s democracy in the future.
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Living livestock
Catie Gressier | March 21, 2025The diversity of livestock breeds has been decimated by the drive to ever greater efficiency, leaving pig, cattle and other stocks vulnerable to disease and inbreeding.
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Back to the drawing board
Open Forum | March 21, 2025Walking upright – and sitting too much – wrecks our backs and despite a plethora of cures and treatments, none of them seem to work.
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The secret childcare scandal
Marianne Fenech | March 20, 2025Childcare is expensive but an ABC report also highlights widespread claims of of abuse, neglect and poor standards, so what is going wrong with childcare in Australia?
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Australia’s energy future
John Quiggin | March 20, 2025The future of energy generation still lies with renewables, rather than legacy coal-fired stations or future nuclear options.
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Lessons in resilience
Daisuke Kageyama | March 20, 2025Sharing disaster lessons plays a crucial role in strengthening resilience across Indo-Pacific countries. It fosters unity and collaboration, promoting international cooperation to enhance regional preparedness and prosperity by investing in human capacity, scaling up traditional knowledge, and leveraging technology.
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The Pacific water shortage
Open Forum | March 19, 2025Hydrology experts at Flinders University are calling for urgent investigations into the operation of bore-fields that access fresh groundwater on Pacific islands, including Kiribati, where rising sea levels are already putting local water supplies at risk.
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Tackling scientific misconduct
Nham Tran | March 19, 2025Over 10,000 scientific papers were retracted around the world last year, and the increasing amount of plagiarism and fabrication – now aided by AI – has revived calls for an Australian oversight body.
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A united front
Henry Campbell | March 19, 2025Australian politicians should establish clearer political boundaries around national security to avoid politicising ongoing security issues and to better manage secondary effects.
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Fighting online for Ukraine
Kateryna Kasianenko | March 18, 2025Despite the apathy of the major platforms and an American President in the pocket of Vladimir Putin, an army of online bloggers are combating Russian’s propaganda war to support Ukraine.
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Heads you lose
Sarah Marinos | March 18, 2025Mobile phone gambling apps and incessant gambling advertising at sporting events on TV are driving a worrying increase in problem gambling in Australia.
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Microplastic major problem
Open Forum | March 18, 2025Australian researchers have found that compost is full of microplastics, with every kilogram of compost containing between 1,500 to 16,000 microplastic particles.
