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Fuel woes highlight resilience problem
John Coyne | September 25, 2022Australia’s just-in-time approach to fuel supplies and the gradual decline in onshore refining left the nation vulnerable to international supply shocks which short term measures like fuel subsidies do nothing to counter.
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Man is born free, but he lives in global supply chains
ANU Editorial Board | August 6, 2022It’s hard to imagine a more thorough stress test for globalisation than the double whammy of a once-in-a-century global pandemic followed by a land war between two of the world’s major commodity producers.
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Strengthening Northern Australia
Gillian Savage | August 1, 2022The challenge for the new minister for northern Australia is to ensure alignment of whole-of-nation outcomes and regional investment and development.
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Remembering the lessons of Covid
William Leben | July 29, 2022We speak casually about living in ‘uncertain times’ a great deal. For a very large chunk of the population, the Covid-19 pandemic has been the only truly uncertain time they have experienced.
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The not-so magnificent seven
Claire Naughtin | July 28, 2022A new CSIRO report outlines seven megatrends that may shape the next 20 years, and underlines the need for innovation to create a better future for us all.
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Drought need not lead to disaster
Ilan Kelman | June 24, 2022Australia is no stranger to the problems caused by droughts, which are only set to increase in intensity and duration as climate change begins to bite, but lessons learned around the world can help stop droughts becoming humanitarian disasters.
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Building health system resilience
Open Forum | June 23, 2022A team of Australian researchers have outlined a range of strategies to help the healthcare system respond better when disaster strikes and make sure nobody is left behind.
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Boosting biosecurity
Andrew Henderson | June 16, 2022Access to sufficient safe and nutritious food is a security necessity and so Australian must dispense with the ‘she’ll be right’ approach that has plagued our broader attitude to biosecurity policy for too long.
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Flourishing after the fires
Open Forum | June 5, 2022Researchers at the Monash Fire to Flourish project are investigating how Australia’s fires and floods have prompted social, cultural and structural change in some of the nation’s affected rural towns.
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Disaster resilience should be an election issue
Markus Höllerer | May 18, 2022After three years of fires and floods, the federal election should have offered an opportunity to promote plans for improving national disaster governance and resilience.
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Redesigning supply chains for greater resilience
Gillian Savage | April 24, 2022For too long, our approach to supply chains has prioritised low cost over other factors, but cheaper is not better if it comes with unacceptable risk.
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Lessons from my Grandmother
Bradley Hastings | April 20, 2022Artificial intelligence is set to sweep many jobs away, as businesses replace people with cheaper, more compliant machines, but previous generations have also faced upheavals in the labour market, and their resilience can be instructive today.