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The more you know, the less you need
Alan Stevenson | June 1, 2021Indigenous traditions of food cultivation highlight the different approaches of European and indigenous people to environmental knowledge and land management.
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Remember the seasonal flu?
Clive Williams | June 1, 2021While COVID has dominated the headlines since the start of last year, seasonal flu and other viruses will continue to kill Australians long after Covid-19 has been contained around the world.
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Time to make cyber security compulsory
Richard Oloruntoba | May 31, 2021A cyber security compliance program would be financially costly, but would be a worthwhile investment to protect our infrastructure given the societal impact of cyber attacks.
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Home is where the heart is
Open Forum | May 31, 2021The number of Medicare-subsidised palliative care services received by Australians in their own home almost doubled between 2015–16 and 2019–20, according to a new report from the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
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What should modern nation-building look like?
John Coyne | May 31, 2021Rather than one-off investment ‘announceables’, Australia’s post-COVID recovery demands ‘big-picture’ nation-building that offers a vision for the future on the same grand scale as major schemes of the past.
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Samoa’s constitutional crisis
Kerryn Baker | May 30, 2021Samoa has elected its first woman prime minister. Now an ongoing constitutional crisis, ironically centred around competing interpretations of Samoa’s parliamentary gender quota provisions, is preventing her from taking power.
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Was it worth it?
Ian Dudgeon | May 30, 2021After 20 years of war, western forces, including Australia’s handful of troops, are withdrawing from Afghanistan, leaving the Taliban in control of 60% of the country. Was our deployment worth the costs? Ian Dudgeon says yes.
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Standing up to China
Yan Bennett | May 30, 2021It is not racist or ‘anti-Asian’ to oppose China’s bullying affronts to human rights and the international rule of law.
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They’re here…?
Alan Stevenson | May 29, 2021Recent revelations of UFO sightings by American Navy fighter pilots may not be proof of alien visitation, but are certainly worthy of further serious scientific investigation.
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What really happened in Wuhan?
Peter Jennings | May 29, 2021An American review into the murky origins of the pandemic which has disrupted the world over the past 18 months may help light on some issues the Chinese Communist Party would rather stay hidden.
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Bouncing back
Richard Holden | May 29, 2021An uptick in business investment suggests a bright outlook for jobs and output as the economy recovers from the measures imposed to control COVID-19.
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Education for global citizenship and sustainability
Jason Beech | May 28, 2021The ethical decisions that we make in the next few years will be critical for the future of our species, our communities, and the ecosystems we inhabit. To successfully address the challenges we’re facing, we’ll need to collaborate both within our communities and on a global scale.
