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Should a young person’s vote count for more?
Kim Angell | October 29, 2024To most people, the idea of ‘one person, one vote’ is sacrosanct, but could a case be made that in certain circumstances, some voters should have more of a say?
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Building back better
Antonia Settle | October 29, 2024We need to increase the resilience of Australian homes as insurance will only be affordable if risk exposure is reduced.
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Nature positive legislation required
Open Forum | October 29, 2024A team of Australian researchers is calling for urgent reforms to the nation’s environmental laws to meet the Federal government’s ambitious nature-positive commitments.
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Can pre-schools cut youth crime?
Jacqueline Allen | October 28, 2024A new evaluation finds that preschool programs can cut the number of young people appearing before the courts by more than 50% and the right types of family support can reduce the chances of children committing crimes even further.
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Reading together
Open Forum | October 28, 2024Research suggests that reading groups, in which people from all walks of life meet regularly to read and discuss literature, can provide the kind of meaningful social connections which alleviate loneliness, particularly as we age.
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Getting more teachers in schools
Open Forum | October 28, 2024Teaching needs to be made more attractive to a wider pool of graduates to tackle shortages in the profession, according to new international research comparing 18 countries.
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Pacific nations will ‘not sit quietly’ on climate change
Liam Moore | October 27, 2024How can Australia offer itself as the partner of choice in the Pacific while continuing to explore for, extract and export coal and gas?
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Triple threat
Bill Wyman | October 27, 2024It seems incredible that a failed pro-Putin President with a string of criminal convictions and an attempt to overthrow American democracy itself under his belt may still be re-elected to power, so what might explain Trump’s apparently impervious appeal to his cult followers?
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The moral shock of war
Michael Pezzullo | October 27, 2024Going to war is an uneasy and difficult compromise for democratic nations, forcing us to balance our love of peace and our conscience against the risk of being coerced and subjugated by authoritarian aggressors.
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Can treaties end the war in Ukraine?
Open Forum | October 26, 2024A peace treaty ending Russia’s disastrous war against Ukraine will be hard to draft because Russia has never declared war, despite waging more than a decade of aggression against its democratic, western-leaning neighbour.
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The biggest game in town
Open Forum | October 26, 2024The global health impact of commercial gambling is worse than previously understood and stronger regulatory controls are needed, according to a new Lancet Public Health Commission report.
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Battleground USA
Emma Shortis | October 26, 2024The upcoming American Presidential election will be fought and won in the key swing states of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Georgia, Nevada, Arizona, North Carolina.
