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Population: The elephant in the room
Mark Nicol | November 26, 2020The growth in the world’s population – from 1 billion in 1800 to 7.8 billion today and perhaps 8.6 billion by mid-2030 – is the driving force behind many of the political, economic and environmental problems we are confronting.
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Recruiters shouldn’t bother stalking applicants’ social media profiles
Craig Donaldson | November 26, 2020UNSW Business School research has found there is little to no correlation for recruiters between a job candidate’s social media profile and potential on-the-job performance or retention levels.
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You can’t sit with us: the rise of privately-owned public spaces
Ben Knight | November 26, 2020The emergence of pseudo-public spaces raises fundamental questions about the value of people’s right to common ground.
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Australia’s electoral system isn’t immune to US-style conspiracy theories
Elise Thomas | November 25, 2020Australia should build trust in the electoral system through awareness campaigns to educate the public on the voting process, how their votes are counted and the steps being taken to ensure systems are secure.
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Heads up on mental health
Suresh Sundram | November 25, 2020If there’s ever been a time for a paradigm shift in the way we conceptualise mental health and treat mental illness, it’s now.
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Fighting fake news with humour
Lennon Chang | November 25, 2020A range of approaches is required to limit the production and dissemination of questionable content, and officialdom needs to change the way it communicates in the digital age, including the use of humour.
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School anti-bullying schemes can do more harm than good
Open Forum | November 24, 2020International research into the effectiveness of school bullying prevention programs shows that a high proportion of programs either do not reduce bullying or can even increase it.
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Successful leaders are ‘one of us’
Open Forum | November 24, 2020A successful leader is one who creates a shared sense of unity and identity in the groups they lead, according to University of Queensland research.
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Regulating medical devices in the ‘Internet of things’
Carolyn Johnston | November 24, 2020New research explores the gap between regulation and practice in healthcare devices, particularly for type 1 diabetes, that are part of the Internet of Things.
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The rocky road to redemption
Peter Jennings | November 23, 2020Paul Brereton’s report on SAS incidents forces us to confront the worst of what happened on our watch in Uruzgan Province. We should not lose the chance to think hard about the wider story: why we were there and what we thought we were doing.
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Concrete architecture: beauty or beast?
Ben Knight | November 23, 2020If you can look beyond the harsh exterior of brutalist architecture, you may find there is a little bit of beauty in buildings made of concrete.
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Why Australian businesses miss out on innovation
Open Forum | November 23, 2020A new report from Australia’s national science agency, CSIRO, has found that while Australian investment in science and technology for disease preparedness has driven a strong response to COVID-19, there are still fundamental barriers to innovation adoption.
