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Australia must heed the lessons of ‘hybrid warfare’ to avoid falling behind on the battlefield

  • Written by: John Blaxland, Senior Fellow, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
imageThe future battlefield will look very different.Josh Smith/Reuters, CC BY-NC

The Australian Army’s top brass are assembled in Adelaide for the Land Forces 2016 conference. Cutting-edge military equipment, including autonomous vehicles associated with “hybrid warfare”, will be on display.

But what is hybrid warfare? Is it just...

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How happiness improves business results

  • Written by: Petrina Coventry, Professor, University of Adelaide
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In business the concept of happiness is likely to make some groan, roll their eyes or be dismissive. But increasingly we can’t ignore the evidence that it helps business.

Modern science is measuring the positive effects of happiness on the mind and body more effectively, so businesses are becoming more interested in how it can be achieved and...

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Please can we give up on complementary, alternative and 'integrative therapies' now?

  • Written by: Michael Vagg, Clinical Senior Lecturer at Deakin University School of Medicine & Pain Specialist, Deakin University

A purportedly serious publication in a serious forum that was published this week has given rise to a bunch ofbreathless CAM-related headlines in my news feed. CAM being Complementary and Alternative Therapies.

I presume that this is what the authors and their employer wanted, as the supposed good news story is in fact one of the most blatant...

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Apple and Ireland are betting on 'Nation Inc' and a world of shareholder citizens

  • Written by: Carl Rhodes, Professor of Organization Studies, University of Technology Sydney
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When the European Union decided to fine Apple €13.5 billion for tax evasion in Ireland last week, it didn’t take long for the Irish government to join with Apple to announce it would appeal the ruling.

The alignment between the tech giant and a nation state shows how governments can be held to ransom by corporations. And more broadly, it...

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  1. China’s G20 summit was big on show, but short on substance
  2. Company results wrap: news publishers are transforming, but into what?
  3. Sydney property market spreads price shocks to other capital cities
  4. NT royal commission is the cost of failing to meet international standards on torture
  5. Vitamin D may protect against severe asthma attacks and hospitalisation
  6. Improving teaching in rural schools - we need to stop borrowing approaches from overseas
  7. The ethical and cultural case for culling Australia's mountain horses
  8. With energy, ideas and cheek to spare, Richard Neville was the boy of OZ
  9. Extinction alert: saving the world from a deadly asteroid impact
  10. Company results wrap: retail sales flat, but some retailers buck the trend
  11. FactCheck Q A: is $30 billion spent every year on 500,000 Indigenous people in Australia?
  12. Absurdist, poignant slapstick – plus a brass band – in En Avant, Marche!
  13. US-China ratification of Paris Agreement ramps up the pressure on Australia
  14. Can, or should, we save ARENA?
  15. Brazil ousting demonstrates the new coup rocking Latin America
  16. Health Check: is it bad to regularly sleep wearing earplugs?
  17. Protected areas are helping save our favourite animals – but let's not forget the others
  18. If the TPP dies, Australia has other game changing trade options
  19. Paranoid politics: how does Donald Trump get away with it?
  20. Habitat III: the biggest conference you’ve probably never heard of
  21. New Grattan research shows what is at stake in the superannuation debate
  22. Vital Signs: all eyes on the central bankers
  23. Explainer: what's meningococcal meningitis and what are the signs?
  24. Students are not hard-wired to learn in different ways – we need to stop using unproven, harmful methods
  25. The Climate Change Authority report: a dissenting view
  26. Careful surveillance and pet wearables: at home with animals
  27. Why old theories on Indigenous counting just won't go away
  28. Will airlines ban Samsung phones after their recall for exploding batteries?
  29. Liberal Party 'internals' have a bad attack of acid stomach
  30. Victorian ReachTEL: Labor leads, but Andrews damaged by CFA dispute
  31. Boyer Lectures: Episode 1 – Health inequalities and the causes of the causes
  32. Turnbull flays colleagues after government's humiliation
  33. Food for thought: feeding our growing population with flies
  34. Creatine: what is it and should we supplement our diets with it?
  35. A Chinese company gave $3.6 million to Labor while bidding for government work – and it's totally legal
  36. Graf all you want, but don't you dare be poor!
  37. It's time to speak up about noise pollution in the oceans
  38. ACCC unlikely to secure compensation for Volkswagen customers
  39. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the shambles in the lower house
  40. Explainer: what treatment do young children receive for gender dysphoria and is it irreversible?
  41. Australian small businesses could be stretched by changes to commercial credit cards
  42. ACCC takes VW to court -- but will it help consumers?
  43. Questioning the 'miracles' of Saint Teresa
  44. Can Turnbull change course in Indigenous affairs?
  45. Direct Action not as motivating as carbon tax say some of Australia's biggest emitters
  46. Interactive: what powers does ASIO have to question and detain terror suspects?
  47. Explainer: what are drug cryptomarkets?
  48. To raise status of teaching, Australia needs to lift pay and cut teacher numbers
  49. The Climate Change Authority's gamble on political pragmatism
  50. Beneath the surface of tourism in Bali

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