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Australian climate policy after the bushfire crisis
Andrew Walter | February 9, 2020The economic gains from a bold Australian decarbonisation strategy could be significant, and allow the nation to restore its reputation for positive, innovative policy leadership and secure its regional and global partnerships in the coming decades.
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The fog of Wuhan
Raphael Veit | February 9, 2020After initially suppressing news of the Wuhan virus outbreak, we can’t be sure whether authoritarian China is now using a sledgehammer to crack a nut, or whether this new coronavirus presents a serious global health threat.
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Understanding our crazy weather
Rob Warren | February 9, 2020What do the wild weather extremes of recent weeks, not least in Sydney and Melbourne, tell us about our changing climate?
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The challenge of free speech
James Arvanitakis | February 8, 2020Universities should be bastions of free speech and open inquiry, but intolerance of “politically incorrect” opinions and party political meddling is threatening to close down rational debate on a range of hot-button social and scientific issues.
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My world is not your world
Alan Stevenson | February 8, 2020While we assume we experience the same unfiltered and objective reality, our senses and brains combine to make sense of the world around us from birth in very complex – and individual – ways.
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Racist comments are damaging, so is “othering” the one who said it
Jake Sandler | February 8, 2020Calling people racists can merely entrench them in their beliefs, but accepting our individual complexity, celebrating our common humanity and calling out the sin, rather than the sinner, can have a more positive effect.
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GAP Summit calls for better career education in schools
Catherine Fritz-Kalish | February 7, 2020As discussions about the future of jobs and lifelong learning intensify around the world, young people are increasingly looking for meaningful career advice to help them navigate the ever more complex world of work. The latest report from Global Access Partners offers some new perspectives.
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Sports rorts and public accountability: why Bridget McKenzie took so long to resign
Dominic O'Sullivan | February 7, 2020Although eventually forced to resign over misapplied sports grants, Bridget McKenzie clung to office in the hope of riding out the storm, protected by Australia’s monolithic party system.
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The circus moves on
Daniel Steedman | February 7, 2020The impeachment trial of President Trump has ended with his exoneration. Without question the process has damaged the American political system. It won’t break it, but it will test it.
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Mapping the spread of coronavirus
Jodie McVernon | February 6, 2020Mathematical modelling gave us an early warning about the size of the coronavirus outbreak – now, researchers are doing the numbers daily to work out how the virus could spread.
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Hacking the headlines
Elise Thomas | February 6, 2020Journalists and media organisations should be asking much tougher questions whenever a cybersecurity company tries to shop them a story that sounds a little too cinematic to be true.
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Don’t text and walk
Open Forum | February 6, 2020In news that will surprise no-one, pedestrians who text while walking are more likely to walk into traffic than people paying attention to the world around them as they walk.
