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Labor’s first term report card
John Quiggin | May 19, 2024The Albanese government’s electoral strategy has constrained it to do little more than tweak the policy settings it inherited from the previous government, and adopt them as its own.
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Vaccines save lives
Sheel Meru | May 19, 2024The chance of living one more year is up to 44 per cent more likely thanks to the past 50 years of vaccines, according to new research. But global drops in vaccine coverage pose a risk to further progress.
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The good, the bad and the ugly
Alan Tidwell | May 19, 2024America’s Congress cannot play games with funding of initiatives in the Pacific. Nor can policymakers merely continue with existing and outdated programs. Too much is at stake.
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Don’t look back
Agnes Arnold-Forster | May 18, 2024Nostalgia was once thought to be a potentially fatal illness, but is now co-opted by advertising agencies and politicians alike to sell us goods and policies harking back to ‘better days’ which perhaps never existed.
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The nature of nature
Tom Oliver | May 18, 2024Changing the dictionary definition of nature from “as opposed to humans” to “including humans” would encourage people to use the word in a way that reflects how humans are intertwined with the whole web of life.
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Small is beautiful
Tim Rock | May 18, 2024While large animals may dominate nature documentaries, most life on Earth is very small indeed, for very good reasons.
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Speaking up for women in sport
Catherine Ordway | May 17, 2024As Australia grapples with a “national crisis” of violence against women, what can men in sport do to help? A minute’s silence is fine in itself but being quiet isn’t enough.
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Review bombing
Nick Hajli | May 17, 2024Customer reviews on the internet have long been corrupted by shills, Google’s advertising schemes and SEO optimisation, but a tsunami of AI generated garbage is now rendering them useless unless users exercise great care.
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Natural philosophy
Open Forum | May 17, 2024Public policy should be based on scientific evidence – but scientists often lament the gap between science and policy, while policy-makers feel that scientists don’t deliver the evidence that is needed, so perhaps philosophical expertise can help close the gap between research and policy.
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Crime waves
Virginia Comolli | May 16, 2024Economic diversification is exposing Pacific islands countries to new criminal threats, according to the latest report by the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime.
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The discrete charms of the analogue world
Michael Beverland | May 16, 2024The backlash against digitisation, artificial intelligence and the appropriation of human culture by a handful of technology giants is exemplified by a growing interest in classic analogue synths, rather than their soulless digital successors.
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Only the astronauts
Tony Hughes-d'Aeth | May 16, 2024Adrift in outer space, a motley crew of human-made objects tell their tales, making real history a little sweeter and stranger, in the new collection of short stories by Ceridwen Dovey.
