Do Australian attitudes towards Chinese investment reflect racism? It’s a question I’ve often been asked but it’s a tough one to answer.
According to the 2014 Lowy Poll 56% of Australians think that the government is allowing too much investment from China.
Yet Australian Bureau of Statistics data shows that in 2014 China only...
Productivity seems to be one of the measures the Federal Government is using to justify its policy decisions in the lead up to the budget.
The Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull invoked this little understood term in relation to the bill to resurrect the Australian Building and Construction Commission.
He said:
When the Australian Building and...
The first robotically assisted hip replacement operation in Australia is due to be performed today on a patient in Brisbane.
A total hip replacement (THR) is one of the most successful operations that surgeons perform, with more than 43,000 carried out last year in Australia alone.
The robot technology to help in such operations has been used for...
Are compound eyes the window to the soul?Gilles San Martin/Flickr, CC BY-SADo bees like the taste of nectar? Does the ant foraging for your crumbs feel better when she finds one?
Are insects merely tiny robots? Or, in the phrase popularised by the philosopher Thomas Nagel, is there something it is like to be a bee?
Until recently, most scientists...
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For a long time, you might have defaulted to overseas suppliers when sourcing fabricated metal components for a project. The unit price was lower on paper, and the maths seemed straightforward. That...
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