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Meeting the authoritarian challenge
Matthew Sussex | July 23, 2021There are no easy ways to generate democratic resilience, but it is a crucial endeavour given the increasing range and severity of ‘grey zone’ assaults committed by China, Russia and other authoritarian nations.
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Clever cockatoos learn through social interaction
Open Forum | July 23, 202160 years after blue tits in England learned to peck at silver milk bottle tops on doorsteps, Australian researchers have realised that cockatoos also learn how to open rubbish bins from each other.
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Restoring the world’s dry lands
Open Forum | July 23, 2021Although environmental concern often focuses on the loss of tropical forests, restoring the world’s dry lands to health should also be an urgent priority.
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The keys to successful crisis communication
Victoria Tichá | July 22, 2021As crises such as the COVID-19 pandemic evolve, research shows leaders should communicate critical information in a distinct, consistent and consensual way.
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Global shipping bounces back
David Uren | July 22, 2021The pandemic prompted calls for greater self-sufficiency, but global shipping is back to pre-COVID proportions, although fissures in international relations threaten to undermine this recovery.
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Higher, stronger, dirtier?
Jason Mazanov | July 22, 2021Another Olympics is upon us, delayed for a year due to COVID-19. Amid the joy of participation, there remains inevitable speculation around the doping scandals which have dogged international sport for over half a century.
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The risks and rewards of the new agricultural visa scheme
Abul Rizvi | July 21, 2021Australia’s new agricultural visa scheme should be accompanied by suitable protection for workers rights to prevent them being exploited.
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Is the cure worse than the disease?
Open Forum | July 21, 2021Lockdowns are tough on our health, but a COVID-19 outbreak would be worse, according to Aussie and international researchers who reviewed pandemic response in countries with and without lockdowns.
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Fighting back
Michael Shoebridge | July 21, 2021There can be no return to a trusting ‘win–win’ relationship with Beijing at the same time as we are being spied on and robbed blind by its hackers. It’s time to fight back.
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Beefing up government digital service delivery
Tom Uren | July 20, 2021A greater adoption of cloud services in government will help manage sudden spikes in demand for access to digital services.
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WhatsApp and the right to encrypt
Anastasia Kapetas | July 20, 2021Encrypted messaging has become a very difficult business. Despite their reach, it’s hard to make money from messaging apps and their key service – encryption – is under constant attack from actors across the political spectrum.
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An eye for difference
Simon Cropper | July 19, 2021Please do not adjust your sets, normal service will not be resumed because dream, hallucination or reality are all a product of the same thing – your brain.
