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Going big and bold in the South Pacific
Jeffrey Wall | September 23, 2020Australia should look at big and bold projects that enhance our influence and assist Pacific nations in key areas at a time when they are sorely tested in economic, social and strategic terms.
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Seven ways to suck CO2 from the atmosphere
Annette Cowie | September 22, 2020Federal Energy Minister Angus Taylor is expected to outline the Morrison government’s first Low Emissions Technology Statement on Tuesday, plotting Australia’s way forward on climate action.
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All hands to the pump to curb plastic pollution
Open Forum | September 22, 2020At least one billion people worldwide would be needed to take part in a global clean-up to reduce plastic waste, according to an international group of researchers including The University of Western Australia.
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Australia and the U.N.
Gordon Weiss | September 22, 2020As the UN’s second secretary-general, Dag Hammarskjöld, famously said, the UN ‘was not created to take mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from hell’.
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Increasing Australia’s investment in diplomacy
Michael Shoebridge | September 21, 2020Australia is underinvesting in diplomacy given the type of world we are living in. But it’s wrongheaded to blame MPs and ministers for not simply understanding the intrinsic value of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and giving it more money.
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The fraying patchwork of nature
Open Forum | September 21, 2020Relentless land clearing for agriculture, mining and urbanisation is isolating and disconnecting Earth’s protected natural areas from each other, a new study shows.
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Repairing the housing market
Hal Pawson | September 21, 2020The fallout from COVID-19 for housing and homelessness just adds to the urgency of fixing the long-standing ills of the housing market. The well-being of Australia’s economy and people depends on it.
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Cheer up, it’s been worse before
Claudia Hooper | September 20, 20202020 has been grim, but there have been worse years in history. In this article, experts from science, history and literature take us through just some of the other terrible times people have endured before now.
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Australia’s conservation laws are failing our endangered species
Jessica Walsh | September 20, 2020The Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act is failing to protect Australia’s increasing numbers of critically endangered species and the wild habitats they require to survive.
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China-Australia tension hammers human ties
James Laurenceson | September 20, 2020For all the concern this year that political tensions between Australia and China might harm trade and investment, this isn’t the most acute stress in the bilateral relationship.
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And the winner is…Television: spectacle and sport in a pandemic
David Rowe | September 19, 2020In the historic contest between sport and media, the Covid-19 Trophy went to television. In extra time to a fake soundtrack.
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Time to review the Port Darwin lease
Open Forum | September 19, 2020China is an important partner for Australia. But who owns our critical infrastructure is not a question about our relationship with China. It’s about our sovereignty.
