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Playing a full role in the Pacific
Melissa Conley Tyler | August 27, 2024Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is in Tonga for the Pacific Islands Forum leaders meeting alongside 18 leaders from across Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia.
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Phew, what a scorcher
Andrew King | August 27, 2024The current burst of winter warmth is already breaking records across Australia and future warm spells will be hotter still, if humanity’s greenhouse gas emissions continue.
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Only disconnect
Martijn Boersma | August 27, 2024Australian workers now have the right to refuse to read or respond to work-related calls, texts and emails outside their working hours, unless that refusal is unreasonable, but will employers respect it?
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Profit + purpose
Tracey Danaher | August 26, 2024Can companies strike a balance between social purpose and private profit? International research involving Monash University suggests the two aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Automating education
Annette Vee | August 26, 2024Tech entrepreneurs want to use AI to ‘revolutionise’ education, but high tech replacements for human teachers have a long history of failure to overcome.
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Telling the climate story
Andy Pitman | August 26, 2024People tend to pay more attention to narratives than raw data, and so framing climate risks as “storylines” could transform the way Australia’s firms and organisations understand and report their climate impacts and exposure.
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The men who killed the news
Denis Muller | August 25, 2024A new book examines the way modern media and technology moguls have dismantled journalistic ethics in pursuit of personal profit and undermined democracy itself.
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Treemageddon
Hannah Thomas | August 25, 2024For all its protestations of environmental purity, Australia continues to be one of the world’s worst offenders in clearing native forest for agriculture.
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Saving the reef
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg | August 25, 2024Australia’s iconic Great Barrier Reef will continue to deteriorate due to climate change, pollution and other human factors and the window to secure its future is rapidly closing according to a major new report into the state of the reef.
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Choose hope
Emma Shortis | August 24, 2024Kamala Harris’ optimistic and inspiring acceptance speech at the Democratic congress stands in sharp contrast to the mean spirited rambling of her Republican adversary.
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The first battle for Kursk
Harry Bennett | August 24, 2024Ukrainian forces have humiliated the Russian army in Kursk, where Soviet forces once overcame the last big German push on the Eastern front in the Second World War.
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The pleasures of paradox
Open Forum | August 24, 2024Paradoxes are not just an interesting exercise in speculative philosophy, but can also make us realise that good questions can have more than one answer – or perhaps none.
