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The changing face of terrorism
Alexander Howard | March 12, 2026The Iranian revolution installed an Islamic regime which funded and transformed global terrorism, replacing left‑wing radicalism with religious fundamentalism.
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Into the manosphere
Steven Roberts | March 12, 2026Louis Theroux’s new Netflix documentary explores the world of ‘manosphere’ influencers and podcasters and their appeal to young men in a world which not only doesn’t seem to need them, but actively despises them.
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Beware of zombies
Seth Robinson | March 12, 2026Zombie fiction imagines a world that has been changed forever, but also offers hope that individuals can still resist and repel despair and assimilation, rather than one than succumb to it without a fight.
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Don’t let AI do your thinking for you
Misia Temler | March 11, 2026It’s tempting to offload your thinking to artificial intelligence but cognitive science shows why that’s a bad idea. For a successful relationship with AI, we need to exercise all our mental skills – otherwise we really do risk losing them.
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USA-Iran war highlights Australia’s fuel vulnerability
Raelene Lockhorst | March 11, 2026Rather than treating fuel security purely as a stockpiling problem, Australia should think about distributed fuel resilience, including larger northern storage facilities, greater redundancy in import terminals and expanded capacity to move fuel across the continent during disruption.
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The Milky Bar kid
Bernard Paul Corden | March 11, 2026Kevin Rudd was seen as a breath of fresh air after replacing the long serving John Howard as Australia’s Prime Minister in 2007 but leadership battles with Julia Gillard and a failure to embrace radical reform doomed his premiership to failure.
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Bridging the great divides
John Coyne | March 10, 2026Maintaining social cohesion is a crucial factor in preserving Australia’s security but policy makers shouldn’t make it a national-security issue.
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The sea, the sea
Sean Andrews | March 10, 2026The current conflict in the Middle East highlights the importance of maintaining Australia’s naval and commercial fleets and improving home grown oil refining capacity.
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This is my truth, now tell me yours
Bernard Paul Corden | March 10, 2026British Labour icon Nye Bevan popularised Friedrich Nietzsche’s phrase “This is my truth, now tell me yours” 80 years ago, but the challenge remains as aposite as ever.
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Final BESS edition released
Peter Fritz | March 9, 2026The final double issue of the Journal of Behavioural Economics and Social Systems (BESS) examines democracy, wellbeing and accountability in a period of institutional, economic and technological transition, with particular attention to human-AI collaboration.
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A history of innovation
Martie-Louise Verreynne | March 9, 2026A new book by Andrew Leigh maps the drivers of history’s big breakthroughs and why they still matter in an age when AI threatens to rewrite the rule book of human progress, and perhaps replace it altogether.
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Forever Jung
Nick Haslam | March 9, 2026Where Freud reduced the human psyche to repressed drives, Jung expanded it into something vast and mythic. Indeed, his concepts of the collective unconscious, archetypes and individuation were an audacious attempt to map what it means to be human in an age before biological neuroscience.
