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How your plastic litter kills sea turtles
Open Forum | September 17, 2018Analysis of nearly 1000 turtles found dead and washed up on beaches around Australia showed that the more plastic a turtle consumes the greater the likelihood that it was killed by that plastic.
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Indonesia’s expanding horizons pose a question for Australia
Isabelle Lewis | September 16, 2018Indonesia’s accelerating economic prosperity will see the country poised to take a leading role in the Indo-Pacific region. It’s time for Australia to refocus its Indonesia priorities.
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Growing Australia’s ‘ESports’ industry
Open Forum | September 16, 2018Competitive video gaming is a flourishing and lucrative global business but Australia needs to do more to increase its presence in the eSports arena – particularly when it comes to internet speeds.
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Unearthing the secret life of wombats
Open Forum | September 16, 2018The most significant wombat conference in 20 years will bring experts from around the world to South Australia.
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Why driverless vehicles should not be given unchecked access to our cities
Derlie Mateo-Babiano | September 15, 2018Potential costs are rarely mentioned in the rhetoric about autonomous vehicles, much of which is highly optimistic, but universal or widespread access to the city by autonomous vehicles could result in detrimental health and environmental outcomes.
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Tackling diabetes in Fiji
Open Forum | September 15, 2018With Fiji’s population suffering the highest rate of diabetes in the world, Central Queensland University researcher, Lydia O’Meara, is educating local farmers on how to overcome and reduce these common but preventable diseases in rural communities.
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‘I’m not angry, I’m just Arab’: Michael Mohammed Ahmad talks race and masculinity
Kay Harrison | September 15, 2018There’s no hiding from confrontational truths in Michael Mohammed Ahmad’s new novel “The Lebs”.
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An Australia unified through the pursuit of self-interest
Kay Harrison | September 14, 2018Noel Pearson delivered an optimistic “Declaration to Australia”, along with a series of “uncomfortable but necessary truths”, to a packed theatre at UNSW Sydney during this year’s Hal Wootten Lecture.
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Why digital government isn’t working in the developing world
Rania Fakhoury | September 14, 2018Donor-driven e-government projects in developing countries often attempt to transplant what was successful elsewhere. But success requires buy-in from locals – both governments and citizens alike.
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Are greens better than pills to prevent falls for elderly people?
Open Forum | September 14, 2018Just half a cup of broccoli a day can help older people avoid being hospitalised for a fall, new research from Edith Cowan University has found.
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The changing dynamics of internet governance in the South Pacific
Bart Hogeveen | September 13, 2018Australia and its partners must either brace for a new era of state dominated governance where principles of an open, free and secure internet will be frequently dismissed or be prepared to invest in the human, financial and political capital required to further our international cyber agenda.
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Is Australia set to follow Europe and North America with an extreme summer?
Stephanie Choo | September 13, 2018With no end in sight for the drought, bushfires already causing problems in Eastern Australia and a looming El Niño, the coming Australian summer could be a shocker.