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ENVIRONMENT

Saving the Reef means learning from its past battles
- Michele Gierck
- 28 February 2025
Dr. Paul Hardisty has spent years chronicling the Great Barrier Reef—not just its breathtaking beauty, but its battles for survival. In In Hot Water, he traces a century of near-misses and looming catastrophe, from oil drilling threats to climate-driven bleaching, revealing the fragile, high-stakes fight to save the world’s largest coral ecosystem.
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INTERNATIONAL

Cheques and (power) balances reshape aid in a post-liberal world
- Cameron Hill
- 26 February 2025
With cuts to USAID, international aid programs confront mounting challenges. Amid evolving power dynamics and strategic realignment, humanitarian assistance now faces fundamental questions about its future.
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INTERNATIONAL

Is this the end of American hegemony?
- David James
- 26 February 2025
With China and Russia asserting influence, alliances shifting, and economic nationalism rising, the unipolar era may be over. Is the U.S. retreating, recalibrating, or losing control? For decades, America dictated the global order. Now, the world is learning to move without it.
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INTERNATIONAL

The Art of the Self-Serving Deal
- Andrew Hamilton
- 06 February 2025
Donald Trump’s presidency, often dismissed as chaotic, follows a clear, transactional logic: power over principle, loyalty over institutions, and reshaping America into a high-stakes deal-making enterprise. But history suggests such a system cannot last. In the meantime, how should we respond?
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AUSTRALIA

Smartphones took over the world. Can we opt out?
- Binoy Kampmark
- 04 February 2025
Smartphones dictate access to commerce, communication, and even education, and face-to-face transactions have all but disappeared. Have we willingly surrendered choice for convenience? As digital payments become the norm, are those choosing to live without a smartphone excluded from modern society?
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INTERNATIONAL

Friendship in freefall: Unpacking a crisis of civic disconnection
- David Halliday
- 13 December 2024
In 2024, a fifth of Americans reported having no close friends, and the number is growing, especially among those without college degrees. So what are the societal structures behind this crisis in loneliness, and how we can rebuild meaningful connections?
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Keywords: Industrial

Saving the Reef means learning from its past battles

Cheques and (power) balances reshape aid in a post-liberal world

Is this the end of American hegemony?

The Art of the Self-Serving Deal

Smartphones took over the world. Can we opt out?

Friendship in freefall: Unpacking a crisis of civic disconnection