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Technology, once thought the enabler of democracy, is threatening to kill it off

  • Written by: David Glance, Director of UWA Centre for Software Practice, University of Western Australia
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Democracy has entered a new phase characterised by hacking by foreign states and fake stories discrediting political representatives, disseminated by social media. The social media companies have been incapable, or unwilling, to do anything about the fact that a large part of the dissemination of this...

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Catholics vow to go hard in schools fight with government

  • Written by: Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
imageTreasurer Scott Morrison is digging in behind the government's changes to the way schools are funded.AAP/Lukas Coch

The battle between the Catholics and the government on the schools funding plan appears to be ramping up, with Catholic education authorities deciding to intensify their campaign.

Catholic education sources said a discussion of the way...

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The great climate silence: we are on the edge of the abyss but we ignore it

  • Written by: Clive Hamilton, Professor of Public Ethics, Centre For Applied Philosophy & Public Ethics (CAPPE), Charles Sturt University
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After 200,000 years of modern humans on a 4.5 billion-year-old Earth, we have arrived at new point in history: the Anthropocene. The change has come upon us with disorienting speed. It is the kind of shift that typically takes two or three or four generations to sink in.

Our best scientists tell us insistently that a calamity is unfolding,...

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