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Business & Economics

Australia’s economic challenges – and the political implications

The federal budgets brought down in 2020 and 2021 during the height of the pandemic were thought to be some ...
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Law & Politics

What social science is telling us about polarisation (Part 2)

This article is published in two parts. You can read Part 1 here. Despite George Orwell’s Politics and the English ...
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Law & Politics

What social science is telling us about polarisation (Part 1)

There has been much social science research on polarisation recently – some assisted by AI-driven analysis of social media; some ...
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Philosophy & Psychology

Why we trust experts – even when they admit they don’t know the answer

We constantly make decisions about who to trust. Much of the time we’re bombarded with massive amounts of information on ...
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Art, Humour & Poetry

MBJ’s view

See current affairs through the eyes of cartoonist Matt Bissett-Johnson.
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Philosophy & Psychology

Are we a failed species?

A very old friend and longtime mentor of mine, now 85 years of age, recently expressed the gloomy opinion that ...
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