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What can AI do you for?
Sandra Peter | October 4, 2024Amid the excitement around generative AI, it is important to remember that AI is more than chatbots. It impacts many things beyond the flashy conversational tools – often in ways that quietly improve everyday processes.
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Better messaging for the next pandemic
Shauna Hurley | October 4, 2024How can we improve public health messaging for any future pandemics in an age of misinformation and distrust?
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Manufacturing more resilient supply chains
John Coyne | October 4, 2024Australia should define and maintain a minimum manufacturing capacity to enhance its national resilience in an age of continuous, concurrent and cascading crises.
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Iran gambles on war
Shahram Akbarzadeh | October 3, 2024Iran has waged war against Israel through proxy terrorist groups like Hamas and Hezbollah for years, but the barrage of missiles it launched directly against Israel will invite massive retaliation, and perhaps threaten the regime itself.
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The rise of cube-sats
Mustafa Aksoy | October 3, 2024The swift progress and substantial investments already made in CubeSat missions could help make humans a multiplanetary species. But that journey will be a long one – and depends on the next generation of scientists to develop this dream.
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Australia needs a coast guard
Nell Bennett | October 3, 2024Australia should establish a coast guard to counter China’s use of grey zone tactics in expanding its territorial claims in the South China Sea.
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Taiwan belongs in the United Nations
Lin Chia-lung | October 3, 2024Accepting Taiwan into the United Nations would acknowledge its economic and strategic importance and signal global opposition to Communist China’s plans to invade and annex the thriving island nation.
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Jimmy Carter’s century
Christopher Simmonds | October 2, 2024Jimmy Carter is turning 100 years old and will be remembered as much for his common human decency out of office as his single term in the White House.
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How brands exploit green certification
Arne Nygaard | October 2, 2024Greenwashing, free-riding, and institutional inertia can undermine the value of environmental certifications, posing challenges for businesses and consumers alike.
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Championing women’s rights in Afghanistan
Susan Hutchinson | October 2, 2024Meryl Streep’s speech at the UN General Assembly about the myriad ways the Taliban is rolling back the rights of women in Afghanistan was a powerful reminder that Western withdrawal from the country shouldn’t mean we abandon its people.
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Improving state cooperation on security threats
John Coyne | October 1, 2024Cooperation between federal and subnational Australian governments on national security must continue to evolve in the face of the complex terrorism, espionage and foreign interference threats.
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Smooth operator
Ian McCarthy | October 1, 2024Recent measurements of the distribution of matter in the universe appear to contradict the predictions of the standard model of cosmology, for decades our best understanding of how the universe works.
