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Beware the 'cauldron of paranoia' as China and the US slide towards a new kind of cold war

  • Written by Tony Walker, Adjunct Professor, School of Communications, La Trobe University
Beware the 'cauldron of paranoia' as China and the US slide towards a new kind of cold war

In September 2005, before an audience of some of the most powerful business figures in the United States, then US Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick unveiled his “responsible stakeholder” formula for China’s global engagement.

China is big and growing… For the United States and the world the essential question is how...

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Treasury revises JobKeeper's cost down by massive $60 billion, sparking calls to widen eligibility

  • Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra

The federal treasury has revised down by a massive $60 billion the estimated cost of the JobKeeper wage subsidy program, from an original $130 billion to $70 billion.

Treasury revealed its huge recalculation in a joint statement with the Australian Taxation Office, which also revealed there had been a large reporting error in estimates of the...

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Internet traffic is growing 25% each year. We created a fingernail-sized chip that can help the NBN keep up

  • Written by Bill Corcoran, Lecturer & Research Fellow, Monash Photonic Communications Lab & InPAC, Monash University
Internet traffic is growing 25% each year. We created a fingernail-sized chip that can help the NBN keep upThis tiny micro-comb chip produces a precision rainbow of light that can support transmission of 40 terabits of data per second in standard optic fibres. Corcoran et al., N.Comms., 2020, CC BY-SA

Our internet connections have never been more important to us, nor have they been under such strain. As the COVID-19 pandemic has made remote working,...

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Target's decline is part of a deeper trend

  • Written by Jason Pallant, Lecturer of Marketing, Swinburne University of Technology

Wesfarmers’ decision to close or rebrand up to 167 of its 284 Target and Target Country stores should not come as too much of a surprise.

The once popular store has been ailing for years, outmanoeuvred by its successful and popular sister business, Kmart.

Up to 75 Target and Target Country stores will be closed, with the balance being...

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  2. Is it time to reopen our borders? For states still recording new cases, it's too soon
  3. How universities came to rely on international students
  4. 7 questions answered on how to socialise safely as coronavirus restrictions ease
  5. Michelle Grattan on the China-Australia trade war and state border policy
  6. New shows tell our isolation stories on screen – making the most of what's at hand
  7. What defines casual work? Federal Court ruling highlights a fundamental flaw in Australian labour law
  8. 3 experts rate Australia's emissions technology plan
  9. From spit to scrums. How can sports players minimise their coronavirus risk?
  10. Lockdowns, second waves and burn outs. Spanish flu's clues about how coronavirus might play out in Australia
  11. 'wolf warriors' ready to fight back
  12. Low staff levels must be part of any reviews into the coronavirus outbreaks in NZ rest homes
  13. Australian barley growers are the victims of weaponised trade rules
  14. Rich and poor don't recover equally from epidemics. Rebuilding fairly will be a global challenge
  15. Australia, it's time to talk about our water emergency
  16. the Melbourne bookshop that ignited Australian modernism
  17. Australian quantum technology could become a $4 billion industry and create 16,000 jobs
  18. Border wars split political leaders and embroil health experts
  19. Tonight we riot? What Nintendo's 'revolutionary' video game misses about worker liberation
  20. Donald Trump is taking hydroxychloroquine to ward off COVID-19. Is that wise?
  21. Childcare is critical for COVID-19 recovery. We can't just snap back to 'normal' funding arrangements
  22. NSW has approved Snowy 2.0. Here are six reasons why that's a bad move
  23. Immunity passports could help end lockdown, but risk class divides and intentional infections
  24. Architecture was built on copies – China wants it built on nationalism
  25. 15 ways to keep your indoor cat happy
  26. Does vitamin D protect against coronavirus?
  27. The Senate inquiry into family violence has closed, missing an important opportunity
  28. Why it is "reasonable and necessary" for the NDIS to support people's sex lives
  29. Coronavirus has turned retail therapy into retail anxiety – keeping customers calm will be key to carrying on
  30. When the Coronavirus Supplement stops, JobSeeker needs to increase by $185 a week
  31. Recessions scar young people their entire lives, even into retirement
  32. Home of the Arts – inside an arts centre keeping body and soul together
  33. How Mumbai's poorest neighbourhood is battling to keep coronavirus at bay
  34. After the bushfires, we helped choose the animals and plants in most need. Here's how we did it
  35. Plane cabins are havens for germs. Here's how they can clean up their act
  36. New Zealand's COVID-19 Tracer app won't help open a 'travel bubble' with Australia anytime soon
  37. Jim Chalmers on JobKeeper's flaws and the Eden-Monaro byelection
  38. 7 ways to manage your #coronaphobia
  39. Morrison government dangles new carrots for industry but fails to fix bigger climate policy problem
  40. The world agreed to a coronavirus inquiry. Just when and how, though, are still in dispute
  41. Coronavirus is a 'sliding doors' moment. What we do now could change Earth's trajectory
  42. Denied intimacy in 'iso', Aussies go online for adult content – so what's hot in each major city?
  43. why saliva tests could offer a better alternative to nasal COVID-19 swabs
  44. A thousand yarns and snapshots – why poetry matters during a pandemic
  45. The pieces of Australia post-coronavirus are falling into place
  46. how to count like a bee
  47. Don't want to send the kids back to school? Why not try unschooling at home
  48. Thanks to The Conversation's authors, for going above and beyond
  49. Recession hits Māori and Pasifika harder. They must be part of planning New Zealand's COVID-19 recovery
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