The Abbott government resisted the disruptive changes of the 21st century. To succeed, the Turnbull government will need to shed this reactionary mindset and embrace inevitable change.
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There’s no single region in the brain responsible for all moral decision making. But neuroscience research has shown specific brain regions are involved when we’re faced with moral dilemmas.
Teenagers are more interested in gadgets and flashy desig in their first car than they are about safety features. So how do we make them think safety is important?
Since 2007 Australia has not really had prime ministers of sufficient calibre. Instead, we have had an incessant struggle for power by those who believed they had the goods.
Is serious reform to stamp out political corruption in Iraq even possible given inevitable opposition from those with a vested interest in the status quo?
Two years on from the Coalition’s promise of a national broadband network that would be faster, cheaper and delivered sooner than Labor’s plans, what have we got?
Beyond the creation of some lucrative learning tools, talking about “the brain” in education doesn’t mean much as teachers can’t measure what’s going on up there.
Like cancer, bullying will affect a majority of employees during their working lives, as a victim, witness, or perhaps as the alleged bully. And like cancer, there’s no silver bullet to cure bullying.
Australia’s failure to lead on climate action marks a stark shift in political priorities in the past decade. The government is all about immediate economic returns whatever the long-term costs.
Uber is in a global fight to win a regulatory environment favourable to its business model. It could go one of two ways.
For more than a decade the coal industry’s favoured response to climate change was carbon capture and storage, or CCS. CCS is still the main defence, but the absence of functioning projects is making it ever more threadbare.
All too often, the debate around the BDS movement is lost in a cacophony of anti-Semitism accusations and the focus shifts to Western institutions instead of Palestinian rights.
We’ve heard promises to act on domestic violence too often before. But a new Queensland plan offers public accountability measures – which could finally turn rhetoric into real action.
The government plans to change the law so green groups don’t automatically qualify to mount legal challenges against environmental approvals. That would make it much harder for green watchdogs to act.
Carbon tax debates have been happening ever since the late 1980s, when policy-makers first started taking the “greenhouse effect” seriously.
El Niño has arrived, it’s getting stronger, and it’s not about to go away soon. And already there are rumblings that this could be a big one.
For at least some Australians, it seems that Indigenous culture is acceptable only as an object of consumption for tourists visiting the remote north.
What can the new Speaker do to restore the Australian public’s faith in the office – and in MPs more broadly – after Bronwyn Bishop’s resignation due to a series of lavish entitlement claims?
New research shows that we’ll have to remove carbon from the atmosphere for any chance of keeping warming below 2C.
No matter whether it’s targets or quotas, “merit” is always held up as the stalwart gold standard. But can we judge merit without bias? And is merit really the right measure for ability anyway?
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Professorial Fellow, Jumbunna IHL, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor in Astronomy, Monash University
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Lecturer, Public Policy and Political Communications, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, School of Education, University of Southern Queensland
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Senior Industry Fellow, RMIT University
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Research Scientist, The University of Queensland
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Visiting Fellow, SPRU, University of Sussex Business School, University of Sussex
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Chair Professor, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Indigenous Health; Executive Director, Carumba Institute, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, Family & Sexual Violence, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in History, CQUniversity Australia
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Doctoral student, University of Adelaide
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ARC Australian Laureate Professor, University of Tasmania
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Deputy Director, Australian National Centre for Public Awareness of Science, Australian National University
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Professor of Psychology, Professor of Music (rtd), University of Sydney
