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Green for go?
Kate Crowley | April 11, 2025Greens leader Adam Bandt claims the federal election offers “an opportunity for real change”, saying his party would use the balance of power in the next parliament to help deliver serious policy reforms.
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In the shadow of Trump
Rebecca Strating | April 10, 2025While voters may be preoccupied with the cost of living, it’s impossible to ignore the global tumult caused by the second Trump administration in the current election campaign.
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Mission impossible
Open Forum | April 10, 2025There is no shortage of female candidates in this year’s Federal election, but most seats are not in contention, and most female candidates are standing in unwinnable seats.
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A wolf in wolf’s clothing
Timothy Hearn | April 10, 2025Humans wiped out North America’s Dire Wolf around 10,000 years ago with the technology of the time, and now people have brought them back to life – after a fashion – in the same way.
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Reclaiming personal agency in the age of AI
Steven de Costa | April 9, 2025In an era where AI systems increasingly shape our decisions and dilute our personal autonomy, reclaiming individual agency over data, knowledge and wisdom is not just a technological imperative – it’s a societal one.
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0 – 0
Emma Shortis | April 9, 2025The first leaders debate on Sky TV between the two major party leaders was a scoreless draw with no major gaffes or body blows delivered.
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Slogans aren’t solutions
Howard Manns | April 9, 2025Australia’s 2025 election has given us a pair of generic slogans from the major parties, calculated to appeal to everyone without saying anything in particular.
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The great white fleet
Justin Bassi | April 9, 2025America’s “Great White Fleet” came to Australia in friendship in 1908, but China’s red flotilla had very different intentions earlier this year.
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Building back better
Samantha Dunn | April 9, 2025A month after Tropical Cyclone Alfred led to flooding affecting large parts of Queensland and NSW, a timely new report led by UNSW researchers highlights the need to strengthen localised responses to ‘build back better’.
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The reform clock is ticking
Aruna Sathanapally | April 8, 2025The reform clock is ticking and whoever wins the 2025 election will have to get to work on building a better Australia.
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Tornado Trump
ANU Editorial Board | April 8, 2025Trump seems determined to take the “Hugo Chavez” option in wrecking a national economy through ideological zeal while holding on to power through a combination of repression and targeted patronage for loyalists.
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Naval gazing
Edward Sing Yue Chan | April 8, 2025Australia must respond with clarity to China’s growing naval capabilities and take control of the region’s strategic future in partnership with its allies, lest it cede the seas to a hostile foreign power intent on asserting dominance.
