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Can AI speak up for science?
Jon Whittle | April 30, 2024AI tools are already being widely used in science. But can they, and the science they help produce, be trusted?
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Airfares are staying sky-high
David Beirman | April 30, 2024The post-pandemic surge in airfares is easing, but a return to the halcyon days of relatively cheap flight tickets abroad might be over for good.
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Down the plughole
John Coyne | April 30, 2024Wastewater analysis shows that Australia’s consumption of a range of illicit drugs continues to climb, despite the best efforts of law enforcement and harm minimisation schemes.
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Failure to launch
Laura Woodbridge | April 29, 2024The lack of women in the national legislature suggests our political system is misfiring, and this inequality of gender representation also undermines the democratic notion of government being for the people, by the people.
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Boardroom blitz
Open Forum | April 29, 2024A new report has revealed the extent to which Australian universities’ governing bodies have become stacked with unelected big business appointees.
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Plastic planet
Open Forum | April 29, 2024An international team of researchers has found that more than half of branded plastic pollution in the environment is linked to just 56 companies.
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Filling in the blanks
Neil Sipe | April 28, 2024The housing crisis created by Australia’s high rate of immigration mean that governments and developers are eying every square inch of under-used land in our cities, but plans for ‘in-fill’ development are often slow to materialise in reality.
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The political thought of Xi Jinping
John West | April 28, 2024Like Vladimir Putin in Russia, Xi Jinping has established himself as China’s absolute dictator but his policies of internal repression and external aggression are motivated by ideology as well as personal power and nationalism.
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The great art robbery
Oliver Bown | April 28, 2024AI threatens to replace real human artists, just as machines have replaced people in a host of other activities, but AI models were trained on artists’ works without permission or payment.
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Palaeo-conservation
Lachlan Gilbert | April 27, 2024Novel rewilding projects by scientists, ecologists and conservationists could give hope to critically endangered animals around the world fresh hope of survival.
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The end of the ice
Annie Foppert | April 27, 2024In 1897, the former whaling ship RV Belgica left Antwerp in Belgium on first voyage of what would become known as the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration. As so many ships before, it became trapped in polar ice, at a location which is now open water.
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The war on women
Danielle Cave | April 27, 2024A spate of murderous attacks on women around Australia has heightened calls for the Australian government to establish a Royal Commission into gender-based violence.
