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50 years on from the ‘dismissal’
Michelle Grattan | November 7, 2025The dismissal of Gough Whitlam as Australia’s Prime Minister 50 years ago remains seared in the memory of many Australians who were adults or even children at the time, and was a life-changing day for everyone in Canberra’s Parliament House.
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Could a ‘grey swan’ sink AI?
Cameron Shackell | November 7, 2025Could a ‘grey swan’ – a rare but foreseeable event such as the popping of an economic bubble – upset the current hype around Artificial Intelligence?
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Plugging the ‘leaky pipeline’
Jessica Borger | November 7, 2025The “leaky pipeline” has been used to justify the attrition of women from science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine, but the metaphor obscures the cultural, structural and institutional barriers that continue to obscure women’s career pathways in academic and industry STEMM.
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Why we love – or hate – AI
Paul Jones | November 6, 2025For all the promises of personal convenience and business optimisation, many people remain suspicious of AI tools. The answer may lay in human neuroscience rather than the technology itself.
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Investing in the future of science
Maggie Zhai | November 6, 2025If we want to lead in fields such as clean energy, advanced manufacturing and health technology, we must invest in our national research infrastructure.
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Lonely? Me too
Anastasia Hronis | November 6, 2025Loneliness is quietly emerging as one of the most significant health issues in Australia, affecting people of all ages, backgrounds and life stages, so what steps can we take to make friends?
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Aged care in rural Australia needs digital health tech
Open Forum | November 5, 2025Digital health technologies can help Australia’s rural health and aged care systems cut costs, increase efficiency and connect staff, residents and patients to other services.
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Unlocking the potential of generative AI
Open Forum | November 5, 2025Generative artificial intelligence can automate routine tasks, freeing employees to focus on more strategic and creative work, while reducing costs and accelerating time to market but new research from Edith Cowan University highlights the factors hindering its adoption.
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Preventative care for productivity gains
Open Forum | November 5, 2025As Australian health spending falls to pre-pandemic levels, increasing investment in prevention would be good for the economy, good for communities, and good for our overstretched healthcare system.
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Unpacking Victoria’s Statewide Treaty Bill
Max Thomas | November 4, 2025Despite the defeat of the Federal voice referendum, the State Parliament of Victoria has passed a Treaty Bill which will create a costly legal and bureaucratic tangle that is unlikely to improve the lives of Indigenous people.
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AI’s ‘doorman fallacy’
Open Forum | November 4, 2025CEOs are stampeding to replace staff with AI, but despite the lofty promises of the tech companies, many companies aren’t seeing the payoff. Data on productivity gains from AI use is murky at best, and many companies are suffering costly implementation failures.
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The ballad of the feathered front
Roger Chao | November 4, 2025While farmers successfully drove the Tasmanian tiger and many other native animals to extinction, the Great Emu War failed to eradicate emus from the wheatbelt of Western Australia in 1932, despite the best efforts of Royal Australian Artillery soldiers to mow down the flightless birds with lewis guns.
