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Tackling racism in Australia
Amanuel Elias | November 30, 2024The Australian Human Rights Commission has launched a comprehensive “National Anti-racism Framework” to tackle, if not eliminate, racism in all sectors of society and government.
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Combating anti-semitism
Matteo Vergani | November 27, 2024Jewish people around Australia have suffered a rising trend of rising antisemitism since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7 2023, so what can be done to arrest it?
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The art of chatbot conversation
Celeste Rodriguez Louro | November 26, 2024Next time you engage with generative AI, then, do so with caution. Remember it’s only a language model. Don’t let your habitual need for conversational cooperation accept a machine as a fellow human.
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All is not well in Australia
Open Forum | November 13, 2024The latest Wellbeing Index released by Australian Unity and Deakin University reveals that people’s satisfaction with life in Australia as fallen to its lowest level in the 21st century.
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A golden opportunity
Wesley Morgan | November 13, 2024Hosting the 2026 UN climate talks would bring Australia huge benefits – economic, political and environmental – but there’s still much work to do.
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A beacon of hope
Robert Horvath | November 9, 2024Alexei Navalny’s posthumously published autobiography details his brave struggle against Putin’s tyranny and offers hope his death at the hands of Russia’s corrupt and brutal penal system will not have been in vain.
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Inequality breeds discontent
Nicholas Biddle | November 9, 2024A meta-study of public opinion polls reveals that Australians who resent gross inequalities in income levels also have less faith in that nation’s democratic institutions.
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3 big steps towards legal reform
Julia Holman | November 3, 2024At the annual Hal Wootten Lecture, respected retired Magistrate Professor David Heilpern laid out three reforms that could drastically transform the legal landscape in Australia.
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Tracking garbage – from space
Open Forum | November 1, 2024Australian researchers have developed a new method for spotting plastic rubbish on our beaches and successfully field tested it on a remote stretch of coastline.
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Falling jab rates raise concerns
Open Forum | October 30, 2024Vaccination coverage rates among children in Australia have declined for the third consecutive year according to the latest annual vaccination report from the National Centre for Immunisation Research and Surveillance.
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The biggest game in town
Open Forum | October 26, 2024The global health impact of commercial gambling is worse than previously understood and stronger regulatory controls are needed, according to a new Lancet Public Health Commission report.
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A wake-up call ahead of COP29
Liz Ritchie-Tyo | October 25, 2024As the world gears up for COP29 in Azerbaijan, the urgency to address climate change has never been more pressing, as recent extreme weather events, including devastating tropical cyclones, underscore the critical need for global cooperation and decisive action.