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Engineering consent
Samantha Hoffman | October 21, 2019The Chinese Communist Party’s coercive and invasive technologies for monitoring public behaviour are being picked up by other authoritarian states around the world.
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Rebooting Australia’s defence industry policy
David Harvey | October 21, 2019Policymakers must seize the opportunity to develop a proper defence industry strategy that will boost Australia’s military capability as well as its economy as the strategic outlook continues to darken.
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The business reality of baby dreams
Catherine Waldby | October 20, 2019The best way to decommodify the booming trade in human eggs would be social policy that encourages women who want children to conceive before their fertility declines.
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Meet the man who built a new field of chemistry
Daryl Holland | October 20, 2019Back in the 1990s, Professor Richard Robson created a new class of coordination polymers, and his models have since inspired an entirely new field of chemistry with a host of practical applications.
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Snapchat – The killer app on our roads?
Open Forum | October 20, 2019Snapchat has emerged as a surprise threat to Queensland drivers, with a new QUT study showing that one in six young drivers use the wildly popular social media app while behind the wheel.
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Arvanitakis on American politics: The Trump revolution without Trump
James Arvanitakis | October 19, 2019Unless America’s political establishment reconnects with a large, disillusioned swathe of middle class voters, the resentment harnessed by Donald Trump will continue to seethe long after the current Administration is consigned to history.
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Let’s use our nature strips for nature
Adrian Marshall | October 19, 2019Given that more than a third of our public green space is nature strip, many small actions of residents by planting and caring for appropriate trees can add up to substantial positive change for wildlife and the human environment.
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Mapping lost childhoods to find your way home
Kirsten Wright | October 19, 2019A new interactive online map of Australian care homes is helping those who grew up in care track down the institutions they stayed in.
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We can’t drought-proof Australia and it’s foolish to try
Emma White | October 18, 2019The antiquated ideas about drought-proofing pushed by vote-seeking politicians promise much yet deliver little. Indeed, they distract attention and siphon funds from realistic solutions, or actually re-evaluating where and how we use our limited water resources.
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Squaring the defence circle with tied hands
Marcus Hellyer | October 18, 2019Defence’s worst kept secret is now officially public as Defence Minister Linda Reynolds revealed at last week’s Sea Power conference in Sydney that her Department is conducting a strategic review.
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Secretive targets for CEO bonuses signal poor company performance
Open Forum | October 18, 2019Investors should pay closer attention to the non-financial factors linked to CEO cash bonuses because targets that are not disclosed or left undefined in annual reports tend to flag poorer performance in the future.
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Four questions the banks must answer
Mark Humphery-Jenner | October 17, 2019The ACCC has inquired into mortgage rates before, but the banks didn’t offer the Commission all the information as it needed. The questions must be tougher this time around and the big banks owe Australians some straight answers.
