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On the difficulty of being a world citizen

  • Written by: Mark Beeson, Professor of International Politics, University of Western Australia
imageGlobal cooperation is necessary to fight our greatest challenges. Making it happen is much harder.Shutterstock

To say the idea of world government gets mixed reviews would be an understatement, to put it mildly. Many people dismiss the idea out of hand as either a utopian fantasy or a recipe for dictatorship by unaccountable elites bent on world...

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Pitting mozzies against mozzies to stop the spread of disease

  • Written by: Cameron Webb, Clinical Lecturer and Principal Hospital Scientist, University of Sydney

Mosquitoes and the burden of disease they cause continue to weigh down many communities around the world. Despite their fragile appearance, mosquitoes continue to resist our best efforts to eliminate them. We’ve drained and polluted their wetland homes, and we’ve filled the skies with clouds of insecticides, but still they persist.

There...

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Will the Great Barrier Reef recover from its worst-ever bleaching?

  • Written by: Tracy Ainsworth, Research Fellow, ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University

A fifth of the Great Barrier Reef’s corals are dead after the worst bleaching event on record. Most of these deaths occurred in the northern part of the reef above Lizard Island.

Months after the bleaching event, research teams are now taking stock of the damage. Corals can recover from bleaching. But in a changing world they will have less...

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Made in China: three ways Chinese business has evolved from imitation to innovation

  • Written by: Bruce McKern, Honorary Professor, Business School; Recently Visiting Fellow at Hoover Institution, Stanford University and Oxford University, University of Sydney

Businesses and governments around the world are watching as China grows, innovates and extends its influence. We explore how the country got to where it is and what might be in store for its future in our series Understanding China’s Influence.


Most of us use products made in China every day and are aware of its growing economic power as a...

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