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China’s ‘airborne cruiser’
Bill Sweetman | January 10, 2025China’s new large strike aircraft may be the first of a new class of plane which extends its threat across Asia and the Pacific.
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AI in the workplace
Talitakuum Ekandjo | January 9, 2025AI “assistants” promise to increase worker productivity by handling repetitive tasks, but what do people think about them in practice?
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Battling the blob
Maria Pia Dunne | January 9, 2025The internet is overrun by bots designed to spam and imitate us and it’s time to fight back.
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The golden age of the gaffe
Frank Bongiorno | January 8, 2025Though trivial in themselves, a politician’s “gaffe” can hint at much greater political failings, but the media’s eagerness to pounce on missteps rather than analyse policy substance may be a bigger problem.
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Tales of Taiwan
John West | January 8, 2025Taiwan has evolved from its autocratic origins to rank as the most democratic nation in Asia, as well as the most economically dynamic, but these attributes have increased China’s determination to crush the former and absorb the latter, the same motivations as Russia’s disastrous invasion of Ukraine.
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You make your own luck
ANU Editorial Board | January 7, 2025If it is to avoid having its luck run out, Australia needs a reform agenda suited to the structure of the Australian economy and its new position in the world.
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Water world
Open Forum | January 7, 20252024 was another year of record-breaking temperatures, driving the global water cycle to new climate extremes and contributing to ferocious floods and crippling droughts, according to a new report led by The Australian National University.
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Worshiping technology
Charles Barbour | January 6, 2025A new book – Tech Agnostic by Greg Epstein – argues that technology has become the world’s most powerful religion and needs a reformation already.
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The curious case of Ferdinand von Sommer
Alexandra Ludewig | January 4, 2025Dutch-born Ferdinand von Sommer was Western Australia’s first official geologist, but a little digging into his own life reveals as many frauds as real achievements.
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7 steps forward on climate change
Kim Reid | January 3, 2025News, by its very nature, tends to be bad, not least about climate change, but there were positive steps forward last year on every continent in the world.
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Bambi meets Godzilla
Bill Sweetman | January 2, 2025China’s unveiling of radical prototype aircraft has sent shockwaves through the West’s defence establishment, as China now threatens to out-innovate as well as out-produced its democratic counterparts in terms of military might.
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The man behind the mountain
Darius von Guttner Sporzynski | January 1, 2025The Polish freedom fighter Tadeusz Kościuszko never visited Australia yet lent his name to this nation’s highest peak and, as a new biography makes clear, exemplifies its best qualities.
