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Help for hoarders
Jessica Grisham | October 9, 2024Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) is one of the few effective treatments for a range of mental and emotional health issues, including anxiety and depression, and shows promise for helping hoarders kick their habit and lead more normal lives.
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Friend or foe?
Nafis Alam | October 9, 2024Artificial intelligence is a double-edged sword which can help both enhance transparency or perpetuate false claims on sustainability efforts.
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Even the UN struggles to meet gender parity goals
Chin Huat Wong | October 8, 2024Despite calling for greater gender equality around the world, the UN’s leadership is still heavily weighted towards men, with only a fraction of member states appointing female diplomats despite global targets for representation.
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The ups and downs of graphene
Stephen Lyth | October 8, 2024Graphene has been hailed as the key to any number of new inventions over the last 20 years, and while the construction of a space elevator remains as impossible as ever, it is being used in an increasing number of more mundane applications.
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One more cup of coffee for the road
Thang Nam Do | October 8, 2024Climate change is threatening coffee production around the world as rising temperatures, erratic rainfall and increasing pest issues are reducing yield and quality while driving up costs.
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Healing the divide
Ian Dudgeon | October 7, 2024The Australian government has to find ways to help heal the growing domestic disunity caused by the ongoing middle-east conflict.
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CheatGPT
Derry Wijaya | October 7, 2024As AI-powered cyber-crime, fraud and malware proliferates, policy makers and internet users will have to balance the benefits of innovation with new threats to their security and privacy.
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Ending child illiteracy
Patrick Walsh | October 7, 2024Education is a key to putting the world on a pathway that generates more economic activity, equity, and sustainability for all.
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Stronger together
Andrew Forrest | October 6, 2024Australia should develop and clearly communicate a broadened strategic reliance on its Indo-Pacific partners to signal its resolve to defend the region against China.
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In the wash
Rebecca Van Amber | October 6, 2024The fashion industry faces huge sustainability challenges. But the bigger challenge is for consumers to work out who’s genuine and who’s not.
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Werthermania!
Eric Parisot | October 6, 2024This month marks the 250th anniversary of the publication of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s celebrated and controversial novel of unrequited passion “The Sorrows of Young Werther”.
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On the QT
Stephan Modest | October 5, 2024“Greenhushing” is the growing practice of companies keeping their sustainability credentials secret, but it’s not always because they have something to hide.
