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Young people are key to Pacific prosperity
Olivia Baro | August 5, 2024Young people in the Pacific are vital to the continuing development of their nations’ environments, economies, society, and cultures.
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Queen bee of the K-Hive
Ava Kalinauskas | August 5, 2024Kamala Harris’ campaign is harnessing social media to paint Trump as old and ‘weird’ while increasing her appeal to young audiences online.
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Deep thought
Brian Ball | August 5, 2024The philosopher’s union in Douglas Adam’s “Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy” demanded clearly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty when faced with the spectre of super-computer Deep Thought, but then took its advice to clean up on the discussion circuit debating its implications. Nearly 50 years later, fiction is becoming fact.
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The enemy within
Liam Auliciems | August 4, 2024The Soviet Union relied on ideologically motivated spies in the West to leak defence and technology secrets and the recent arrests of two Russian spies in Australia suggests this problem is now re-emerging.
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Language lessons
Zaid Zada | August 4, 2024New research suggests that large language models can predict how linguistic information is encoded in the human brain and can become a new tool to interpret human brain activity.
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Delaying dementia
Open Forum | August 4, 2024Research from the 2024 update of the Lancet Commission on the prevention, treatment and care of dementia suggests that almost half of dementia cases around the world could be prevented or delayed.
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AI in academia: Embracing our Ozempic moment
Amanda Wilson | August 3, 2024AI in education, like Ozempic in healthcare, is not a panacea, but a powerful tool that, when used responsibly, can enhance human capabilities rather than replace them.
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Australian defence and deterrence
John Blaxland | August 3, 2024Robbin Laird’s “Australian Defence and Deterrence: A 2024 Update” serves as a handy summation of the Defence challenges faced by Australia in a more contested world.
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The pressure’s on
Lucas Walsh | August 3, 2024This year’s Australian Youth Barometer survey finds that young people are worried about housing affordability, employment and climate change.
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The 10 year plan for Australia’s schools
Glenn Savage | August 2, 2024The Albanese government has released details of the next funding agreement for Australian schools in its new “Better and Fairer Schools Agreement”.
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California dreamin’
Mark Shanahan | August 2, 2024Ronald Reagan sold America a sunny Californian vision of a fresh start after years of malaise, and Kamala Harris can do the same for a reinvigorated Democratic party.
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Planet polycrisis
Open Forum | August 2, 2024Humanity is facing its greatest emergency, a crisis consisting of many, interlinked, catastrophic risks, and a global plan of action is urgently needed, according to a roundtable of 30 international scientific and sustainability organisations.
