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Small firms – Big factor
Open Forum | April 2, 2025As the federal election looms, a newly released white paper from the Media Precinct reveals that Australia’s small and medium-sized enterprises may now emerge as the deciding voice at the ballot box.
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Delivering health care to children in need
Open Forum | April 2, 2025Embedding nurse practitioners into specialist homeless services can help to improve healthcare access for vulnerable children.
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Fear, uncertainty and doubt
Frank Bongiorno | April 2, 2025The world feels full of fear, uncertainty and doubt, but will this be enough to propel Peter Dutton’s Coalition into office?
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Uneven ambition
William Leben | April 1, 2025Australia is struggling to manage its fraught position between China and the United States, while trying to find a durable place among a crowd of ambitious partner nations across Southeast Asia and the Pacific.
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Flying high
Dougal Robertson | April 1, 2025Australia needs more fighter jets to secure its airspace against incursion from hostile foreign powers, and these can be secured much more quickly than new naval ships.
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Democratic security
Robert Blows | March 31, 2025In an era where even Australia’s democratic system faces significant challenges, “democratic security” is an increasingly pertinent issue.
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Assessing critical thinking
Angelito Calma | March 31, 2025There is a growing concern that Australia’s university students lack critical thinking, but maybe the problem is how we teach and assess it.
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Australia’s ongoing COVID toll
Christabelle Adjoyan | March 31, 2025COVID-19 is still killing Australians — and the full picture shows sobering numbers and a lack of action on some of the key lessons of the pandemic.
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Updating broadcast policy
Anna Potter | March 31, 2025Media policy needs reform, not tinkering, to prioritise Australian interests and voices over the commercial needs of broadcasters and streaming giants.
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The principle problem
Paul Kidson | March 31, 2025Recent surveys have shown school principals face unsustainably high workloads and high levels of stress and these trends seem set to continue.
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No safe seats
Joshua Black | March 30, 2025Australian voters backed more independent MPs in the last election than at any time since the Second World War and the new poll in May could send even more cross-benchers to Parliament.
