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Fuel for thought
John Quiggin | October 22, 2019In news that will surprise nobody stuck behind a huge 4×4 or smoke belching diesel, emissions from Australia’s traffic continue to climb, despite optimistic claims to the contrary.
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The airport border ‘crisis’ is a symptom of management failure
Daniel Ghezelbash | October 22, 2019From high staff turn-overs to filling the appeals tribunal with political allies, the Home Affairs department needs to get a grip on Australia’s airport immigration problem.
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Defending Australia in an age of strategic disruption
Paul Dibb | October 22, 2019The threat to Australia is real and increasing, for the first time since the Second World War.
The ADF must increase its readiness for conflict, with more training, higher stocks of munitions and protected operational bases in the north. -
DFAT’s budget squeeze damages Australian interests
Melissa Conley Tyler | October 21, 2019Diplomacy could help to create a more favourable world for Australia’s interests, but cuts to DFAT’s budget are hampering its reach at a time when it’s needed more than ever.
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Engineering consent
Samantha Hoffman | October 21, 2019The Chinese Communist Party’s coercive and invasive technologies for monitoring public behaviour are being picked up by other authoritarian states around the world.
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Rebooting Australia’s defence industry policy
David Harvey | October 21, 2019Policymakers must seize the opportunity to develop a proper defence industry strategy that will boost Australia’s military capability as well as its economy as the strategic outlook continues to darken.
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The business reality of baby dreams
Catherine Waldby | October 20, 2019The best way to decommodify the booming trade in human eggs would be social policy that encourages women who want children to conceive before their fertility declines.
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Meet the man who built a new field of chemistry
Daryl Holland | October 20, 2019Back in the 1990s, Professor Richard Robson created a new class of coordination polymers, and his models have since inspired an entirely new field of chemistry with a host of practical applications.
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Snapchat – The killer app on our roads?
Open Forum | October 20, 2019Snapchat has emerged as a surprise threat to Queensland drivers, with a new QUT study showing that one in six young drivers use the wildly popular social media app while behind the wheel.
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Arvanitakis on American politics: The Trump revolution without Trump
James Arvanitakis | October 19, 2019Unless America’s political establishment reconnects with a large, disillusioned swathe of middle class voters, the resentment harnessed by Donald Trump will continue to seethe long after the current Administration is consigned to history.
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Let’s use our nature strips for nature
Adrian Marshall | October 19, 2019Given that more than a third of our public green space is nature strip, many small actions of residents by planting and caring for appropriate trees can add up to substantial positive change for wildlife and the human environment.
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Mapping lost childhoods to find your way home
Kirsten Wright | October 19, 2019A new interactive online map of Australian care homes is helping those who grew up in care track down the institutions they stayed in.
