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A long road back for the Liberals
Frank Bongiorno | May 15, 2025Political parties can recover after a devastating election loss but the Liberals will need to think differently to take power again.
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All the slop that’s fit to print
Nicole Blanchett | May 15, 2025Newspapers and other media organisations around the world are using AI to cut costs and increase output without informing their customers, so have executives and journalists skipped the ethics conversation when it comes to using AI?
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Finding your ‘why’
Open Forum | May 15, 2025A new study has revealed there’s more to happiness and wellbeing than simply chasing goals, it also comes down to why you’re chasing them.
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The Liberals turn to Ley
Michelle Grattan | May 14, 2025Sussan Ley added an “s” to her name as a joke when she was young, and has now added the leadership of the Liberal party to her list of accomplishments.
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Balancing sovereign capability
Rajiv Shah | May 14, 2025Global trade remains the key to national prosperity, whatever Donald Trump may think, and calls for greater sovereign capability must be tempered by intelligent use of limited resources to maximise utility.
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A world split assunder
Marc Ablong | May 14, 2025Elisabeth Braw’s insightful 2024 book, Goodbye Globalization: The Return of a Divided World, has proven remarkably prescient in understanding the turbulent global landscape of 2025.
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Brand new day?
Dennis Doyle | May 13, 2025Every new Pope brings hope of a fresh start for Catholicism, and while Leo XIV will face limits in modernising the Catholic Church, his predecessor Francis set the stage for further reform.
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The waters of Mars
Hrvoje Tkalčić | May 13, 2025Although a barren desert today, Mars had oceans billions of years ago and recent studies of meteorite strikes and marsquakes hint at a remnant underground ocean of liquid water on the Red Planet.
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Strive to fight disease in PNG
Open Forum | May 13, 2025Partners from the Burnet Institute, the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, National Department of Health and the University of Papua New Guinea are working to understand how to help local healthcare workers improve their surveillance of, and response to, vector-borne diseases in Papua New Guinea.
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R.I.P. USAID
Lee Jones | May 12, 2025Donald Trump’s destruction of USAID will only accelerate the West’s miserly convergence with Chinese policy in which foreign aid is commercialised and limited, prioritising national self-interest over generosity.
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The Alchemy of Myth: Reading Jordan Peterson’s “Maps of Meaning”
Jason Beale | May 12, 2025Jordan Peterson’s first book, Maps of Meaning, explores the psychological and social reasons that people across different cultures and epochs produce myths and stories with similar structures but is just as interesting for its insights into the mind of one of the most important and prolific public intellectuals of the 21st century.
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Enter the Antichrist
Philip Almond | May 12, 2025Donald Trump posted an AI-generated photograph of himself dressed as the pope to Truth Social on May 3 which was then shared by several White House’s accounts. Is this what the AntiChrist looks like?
