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Viva la revolución
Alan Stevenson | April 5, 2022Our leaders are focused on the next few years, of staying in office, appeasing the electorate instead of making the world a better place for all.
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Tabi on racial matters: Are we missing out on our anti-racism efforts?
Gloria Tabi | April 4, 2022Let’s understand racism for what it really is, to help galvanise our anti-racism efforts from stories of awareness into clear concrete actions that change racist systems.
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Australia’s new space command
Russell Boyce | March 28, 2022Australia has copied the American model in creating a ‘space command’ to unify its space faring efforts and counter hostile actions by Russia and China in orbit around the Earth.
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A question of heritage
Bob Ford | March 26, 2022Australia has welcomed immigrants from many countries, and, together with indigenous people, we should all be Australians first.
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Tabi on racial matters – Happy Harmony Day
Gloria Tabi | March 21, 2022While Australia celebrates the 21st of March as Harmony Day, the rest of the world commemorates it as the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
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Supply-chain lessons from the COVID years
John Coyne | March 15, 2022The government needs to promote discussions with the private sector about supply-chain resilience, nation-building and sovereignty to ensure the lessons learned over the last two years lead to action in the future.
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Movin’ to the country
Susan Ainsworth | March 10, 2022While migration from abroad has suffered a two year hiatus, regional Australia has seen an influx of post COVID ‘tree and sea changers’, offering both benefits and challenges for small town Australia.
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The potential – and pitfalls – of data science
Paul McCarthy | March 9, 2022So much data is collected and crunched in the modern world that any number of correlations can be found – many of which are clearly absurd – but over the last decade data science has unearthed many interesting trends in the social sciences and humanities.
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Choosing who’s in charge of justice
Gabrielle Appleby | February 22, 2022A chief justice is more than just a court’s figurehead: they are responsible for defending and promoting the court’s institutional integrity, and this must be taken into account when appointing them.
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The rise of the sovereign citizen
Daniel Baldino | February 21, 2022Paranoia over COVID vaccinations, a plethora of social media echo chambers, and a host of other factors have spurred the growth of anti-government movements around the world in recent years.
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Universities bounce back
Andrew Norton | February 13, 2022Many universities, facing revenue losses due to COVID-19, announced major staff cuts over the past two years, but as students return to the classroom, Australia’s tertiary sector may be about to bounce back.
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Do your research – on why that doesn’t work
Luke Zaphir | February 9, 2022Telling someone who disagrees with you to ‘do their research’ is unlikely to win their heart or mind.