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Sleeping at the office
Gill Armstrong | March 16, 2025There’s an underutilised resource sitting in virtually every Australian town and city that might offer at least part of the solution to the nation’s housing shortage.
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Propaganda in the Pacific
Anouk Ride | March 16, 2025Disinformation from hostile foreign states aims to influence opinions foreign policy in the Pacific, and there are signs it is working.
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A tale of two leaders
Debra McDougall | March 16, 2025The contrast between the leadership styles and personal values of Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Donald Trump could not be more stark.
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Miles Franklin’s other brilliant career
Kerrie Davies | March 15, 2025Miles Franklin is famous for her book ‘My Brilliant Career’, but what is less well-known is the fact she went undercover for a year as a domestic servant to investigate the working and living conditions of domestic staff.
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Waste land
John West | March 15, 2025Robert Kaplan’s new book Waste Land explores the world’s current state of ‘permacrisis’ in which a deadly mix of authoritarianism, war, climate change, great power rivalry, rapid technological advancement and countless other dangers cast an ever darkening pall.
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Building disaster resilience
Courtney Hansen | March 15, 2025As we head into a federal election, there’s a risk that disaster resilience becomes just another political football—but it shouldn’t be as the escalating costs of disasters affect all Australians, regardless of who is in power.
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The worries of young Australians
Open Forum | March 14, 2025A new report by the Bankwest Curtin Economics Centre has revealed that young Australians are feeling the squeeze from financial pressures, worsening mental health and declining trust in political institutions, with concerns about the cost of living now topping their list of priorities.
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Manufacturing security
Bronte Munro | March 14, 2025As the geopolitical landscape continues to shift, Australia must be able to sustain itself and contribute advanced capabilities by improving its much-reduced industrial capability.
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The west is red
Roger Chao | March 14, 2025Far from making America “great again” Donald Trump’s presidency threatens to transform the USA into the Western counterpart of the authoritarian states it once took pride in opposing.
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Defining antisemitism
Jan Lanicek | March 13, 2025Australian Jews have suffered a sharp increase in antisemitic attacks and vilification since Hamas attacked Israel in October 2023, unfortunately, Australia’s universities have struggled to even define antisemitism, let alone banish it from their campuses.
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Hollowing out peer review
Timothy Hugh Barker | March 13, 2025Students are heavy users of AI to cheat on their assignments and homework, but now even academics are using it to ‘peer review’ each others work, saving themselves time but completely undermining the scientific process.
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Australia should steel itself for an uncertain future
Katie Miller | March 13, 2025A UNSW academic accepts that Donald Trump’s tariffs on steel and aluminium will hurt Australia’s economy and argues that policymakers should focus on strategic adaptability and trade diversification if America seems set on autarky.
