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Building personal resilience
Lowri Dowthwaite-Walsh | November 16, 2022Everyone experiences failure in their lives, but simple techniques to build mental resilience may help you overcome it in the future.
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The business of failure
Christian Harrison | November 14, 2022There will always be change and turbulence for entrepreneurs, but those who “fail forward” and learn from their mistakes are more likely to prove successful.
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Australian maritime resilience
Gillian Savage | November 14, 2022Australia needs a framework that encourages a mix of coastal and international trading ships to ensure logistics resilience and supply chains in the future.
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Fail better
Stephen Langston | November 13, 2022Lots of people fail in their early creative careers only to find success later on, although we never hear about the vast numbers who never make it.
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Magnesium chains can’t take the strain
John Coyne | October 7, 2022Globalisation in one form or another is no doubt here to stay, but the age of predictable, reliable supply chains is over.
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After the flood
Veronica Matthews | October 4, 2022Flood preparedness and recovery plans should be developed in partnership with health and emergency services, disability organisations and community groups to ensure best practice is combined with local knowledge.
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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.