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The Australian way
Marilyn Lake | October 20, 2025In his new book “We Should Be So Lucky – Why the Australian Way Works” Andrew Low looks to uncover the secrets behind Australia’s success and what it can teach the world.
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How should Albanese handle Trump?
Justin Bassi | October 20, 2025Anthony Albanese will meet Donald Trump in Washington on 20 October, the first official meeting between the two leaders since Trump’s inauguration in January, so how should Australia’s Prime Minister handle the encounter?
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How fast is your clock ticking?
Open Forum | October 20, 2025Researchers from Edith Cowan University have developed an innovative new way to measure biological age, which could make it easier to detect and track age-related conditions.
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Who will think of the children?
Alex Beattie | October 19, 2025Just as Victorian norms sought to maintain a particular social order, the enforcement of age restrictions on access to social media platforms risk enforcing a narrow vision of what digital life should look like.
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Geoeconomics is driving foreign policy
Teesta Prakash | October 19, 2025Economics has become the driving force of foreign policy, with trade and commerce replacing traditional diplomacy as key instruments of statecraft, exemplified by the US-China trade war and countries like India recalibrating their strategies to align with shifting economic and strategic imperatives.
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Encouraging girls to study STEM
Open Forum | October 19, 2025A Flinders University STEM enrichment program which mentored 46 schoolgirls in STEM subjects in Year 9 led to 91% of them chosing STEM subjects in their senior secondary years.
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In praise of boredom
Alan Stevenson | October 18, 2025Boredom isn’t a problem to escape with another scroll on our phones but a precious opportunity to create the mental space we need to wrestle with life’s deeper questions of meaning, imagination and purpose.
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Digital embassy or tech tax dodge?
Angus Dowell | October 18, 2025The world’s tech giants pay almost no tax to the countries they generate profits in and Atlassian cofounder Scott Farquhar’s proposal to exempt datacentres on Australian soil owned by foreign companies from Australian law is all about tax evasion rather than encouraging innovation.
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Why is One Nation surging in the polls?
Shaun Wilson | October 18, 2025Support for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation Party has doubled since the 2025 Federal Election as public concern over immigration grows and the shell-shocked Liberals continue to flounder after their overwhelming defeat.
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Wading through ‘workslop’
Steven Lockey | October 17, 2025AI is being used to generate large volumes of low-value, error-prone work that creates busywork for others, rather than increase productivity, so, how can workers and employers cut back on workslop to actually realise AI’s benefits?
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Why do people fall for scams?
Neil Levy | October 17, 2025Professor Neil Levy from Macquarie University’s discipline of Philosophy explains why some people bet on an attractive fantasy – and how we can avoid falling prey to scams.
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Who has the CEO’s ear?
Maria Recouvreur | October 17, 2025The old business saying that ‘the customer is always right in matters of taste’ is being ignored by today’s CEOs who tend to listen to tech experts who tell them what’s possible, rather than the marketing team who know if anyone will buy it.
