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The good, the bad and the ugly
Amanda Dunn | November 10, 2025How have the 10 prime ministers who have held office in the 50 years since Gough Whitlam’s dismissal changed Australia?
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“Bug drugs” could help cure cancer
Josephine Wright | November 10, 2025We’re still a long way from a “cure” for cancer but one day we could have programmable, self-navigating bacteria that find tumours, release treatment only where needed, then vanish without a trace.
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Why Whitlam still matters
Michelle Arrow | November 10, 2025Gough Whitlam is remembered for being the only Prime Minister to be sacked by the Governor General, but half a century after his fall, Whitlam’s progressive national vision has done more than most of his peers to define contemporary Australia.
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What to expect from COP30?
Jacqueline Peel | November 9, 2025The United Nations COP30 climate summit in the Brazilian Amazon city of Belém faces a new range of challenges, not least the open hostility of the Trump administration.
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Trump first
Abhinandan Kumar | November 9, 2025Trump’s “America first” foreign policy is a cloak for his all consuming ‘Trump first” agenda and, like his domestic policies, aims to wrong-foot traditional norms and institutions to tighten his authoritarian control.
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Name badges help protect retail staff from customer abuse
Open Forum | November 9, 2025A QUT team has found that simple personalised “under badges” worn by frontline retail staff can make them more relatable and significantly reduce verbal abuse from customers.
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Are people resigned to losing data privacy?
Josh Widera | November 8, 2025Governments and corporations are collecting ever more personal information on us all to control our lives and bombard us with advertising but most citizens and consumers don’t seem to care.
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How genetics differentiates male and female brains
Jenny Graves | November 8, 2025As well as the obvious physical differences between men and women, a growing body of scientific evidence shows hundreds of genes act differently in the brains of the two sexes, and may be linked to brain disorders such as Alheizmer’s and Parkinson’s disease.
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The case for civil defence
Marc Ablong | November 8, 2025The escalating geostrategic threats to Australia demand more than military might in response and a resilient, united and proactive civil defence framework could help safeguard citizens and build national resilience.
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50 years on from the ‘dismissal’
Michelle Grattan | November 7, 2025The dismissal of Gough Whitlam as Australia’s Prime Minister 50 years ago remains seared in the memory of many Australians who were adults or even children at the time, and was a life-changing day for everyone in Canberra’s Parliament House.
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Could a ‘grey swan’ sink AI?
Cameron Shackell | November 7, 2025Could a ‘grey swan’ – a rare but foreseeable event such as the popping of an economic bubble – upset the current hype around Artificial Intelligence?
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Plugging the ‘leaky pipeline’
Jessica Borger | November 7, 2025The “leaky pipeline” has been used to justify the attrition of women from science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine, but the metaphor obscures the cultural, structural and institutional barriers that continue to obscure women’s career pathways in academic and industry STEMM.
