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Mike Baird: The value of authenticity
Andrew Trounson | January 22, 2020The McKinnon Prize in Political Leadership recognises those who’ve driven change though visionary leadership. Former NSW premier Mike Baird says leaders need a broad vision that gets people off the couch and cabinet ministers out of their chairs.
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Australia must adapt to a new climate reality
Mike Scrafton | January 22, 2020Dealing with the impacts of global warming must not become sidelined by narrowly defining it as a national security issue. Nibbling at the edges of the global warming phenomenon will not suffice.
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Remembering Australia’s first female ‘undercover’ journalist
Kerrie Davies | January 22, 2020A passionate crusader for the rights of women and children, Catherine Hay Thomson went undercover to investigate their treatment in public institutions and testified before a Royal Commission.
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Ourselves, alone
Hugh White | January 21, 2020Many people believe that Australia would never need to defend itself unaided, however the reality is that we must depend on our own resources to ensure our own defence.
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Rethinking interactions with mental health patients
Open Forum | January 21, 2020New research overturns the belief that people with severe mental illness are incapable of effective communication with their psychiatrist, and are able to work together with them to achieve better outcomes for themselves.
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Avoiding the “insect apocalypse”
Open Forum | January 21, 2020Claims last year that we were in the midst of an ‘insect apocalypse’ may have been overblown, but international researchers – including some from New Zealand and Australia – say there is still cause for concern.
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Automation bites at unskilled jobs
Richard Holden | January 20, 2020Technological change has always destroyed jobs. But now automation and artificial intelligence are drying up the options for anyone without specialised skills.
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Redesigning Centennial Park to care for Australia’s endangered animals
Heidi Harrington Johnson | January 20, 2020A UNSW studio led by renowned landscape architect Professor Richard Weller has suggested a unique way to protect our threatened species.
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The myths of Australia’s role in East Timorese independence
John McCarthy | January 20, 2020Twenty years after the ballot in which the East Timorese decided their future, it’s time to reflect on Australia’s East Timor legend.
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Under the telescope
Clare Kenyon | January 19, 2020The 2020s will see the use of increasingly complex technology on Earth and in space to ramp up our understanding of the Universe.
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The fires demand a strategic response to climate change
Michael Thomas | January 19, 2020The bushfires which swept across Eastern Australia offered a glimpse of a dystopian future and demand a strategic response from the Federal government.
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Using maths against the bushfires
Adam Phelan | January 19, 2020UNSW Canberra extreme bushfire researcher and mathematical scientist, Professor Jason Sharples, has dedicated his career to understanding the complex behaviour of bushfires.
