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Australia’s healthy health sector
Open Forum | April 24, 2024New research from the Productivity Commission has found Australia’s healthcare system delivers some of the best value for money of any in the world.
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Two into one won’t go
Anne Twomey | April 23, 2024Lucy Bradlow and Bronwen Bock, have announced that they will run as job-sharing independent candidates for the inner-Melbourne federal seat of Higgins but that doesn’t mean they’ll be able to do so.
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Planning by numbers
Open Forum | April 23, 2024Leading planning and geospatial figures are calling for a coordinated approach to digitising and streamlining Australia’s urban planning systems.
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Debunking Dunning-Kruger
Eric Gaze | April 23, 2024The Dunning-Kruger effect – that unqualified people over-estimate their ability – is often quoted and uncritically cited, but may be misleading, if not entirely untrue.
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Can you afford to travel to work?
Katie Miller | April 22, 2024With the cost of commuting rising and city design limitations becoming more apparent, exploring alternative work arrangements, such as flexible or remote work options, becomes increasingly crucial.
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Encouraging regional climate cooperation
Open Forum | April 22, 2024The Indo-Pacific is facing a steep climate change challenge and Australia’s strong education sector seems ready to do more in the fight.
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The year the music died
Rod Davies | April 22, 2024While megastars can still draw large crowds, other bands have struggled to find a live audience after the pandemic, spurring the Federal Government to launch an inquiry into Australia’s live music industry just two days before Splendour in the Grass was cancelled.
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The end of Eden
John Woinarski | April 21, 2024Mankind’s dominion over Earth is a story of monumental folly and needless greed, and now nature is suffering further fatal blows thanks to the consequences of man-made climate change.
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The pen is mightier than the knife
Paul Giles | April 21, 2024Knife attacks are in the news after the murderous assault in Bondi Junction and the terrorist stabbing of a Bishop in Sydney, and a new book by Salman Rushdie reflects on his own survival from a terrorist knife attack in 2022 while he delivered a lecture on freedom of speech.
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The trial of Vladimir Putin
Rowan Nicholson | April 21, 2024In his new book “The Trial of Vladimir Putin”, barrister Geoffrey Robertson dramatises what might happen within the walls of a future courtroom if the Russian dictator and war criminal was ever brought to justice for his imperialist assault on Ukraine.
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The silent truth
Roger Chao | April 20, 2024Conflict has marred the whole of human history, but the hope for peace is everlasting in the human imagination. In a world riven by war from Ukraine to Israel, Yemen to Mayanmar, we should all remember our common humanity and the healing power of art.
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Alien science
Philip Almond | April 20, 2024We no longer live in a universe that is seen as the product of the divine plenitude. Nor one in which our planet can be viewed as the centre of the universe. As a result, ironically, we have become aliens to ourselves: modern “alienation” is that sense of being lost and forsaken in the vast spaces of a godless universe.
