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Australian quantum technology could become a $4 billion industry and create 16,000 jobs

  • Written by Cathy Foley, Chief Scientist, CSIRO
Australian quantum technology could become a $4 billion industry and create 16,000 jobsNick Bowers/Silicon Quantum Computing, Author provided

Quantum technology is not a phrase discussed over kitchen tables in Australia, but perhaps it should be.

Australia’s quantum technology research has been breaking new ground for almost 30 years. Governments, universities and more recently multinationals have all invested in this research....

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Border wars split political leaders and embroil health experts

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

Who’d be Queensland premier Annastacia Palaszczuk right now?

Facing a tough election in October, Palaszczuk is coming under huge pressure to open the state’s borders, so visitors in search of winter sun can start to get the tourist industry back on its feet.

She’s in the sights not just of the federal government, with Peter Dutton...

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Tonight we riot? What Nintendo's 'revolutionary' video game misses about worker liberation

  • Written by Dan Musil, PhD Candidate, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University

“In a world where the wealthy elite control the media, elections and lives of working people, we’re faced with two choices – accept it or fight for something better.”

That’s the premise of Tonight We Riot, a new video game for touted as a leftist response to the “neocon fantasies” like Call of Duty.

Too many...

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Donald Trump is taking hydroxychloroquine to ward off COVID-19. Is that wise?

  • Written by Teresa G. Carvalho, Senior Lecturer in Microbiology, La Trobe University

The White House’s confirmation that US President Donald Trump has been taking hydroxychloroquine every day for the past two weeks, with his doctor’s blessing, has reignited the controversy over the drug. It has long been used against malaria but has not been approved for COVID-19.

Trump said he has “heard a lot of good stories&rdqu...

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  2. NSW has approved Snowy 2.0. Here are six reasons why that's a bad move
  3. Immunity passports could help end lockdown, but risk class divides and intentional infections
  4. Architecture was built on copies – China wants it built on nationalism
  5. 15 ways to keep your indoor cat happy
  6. Does vitamin D protect against coronavirus?
  7. The Senate inquiry into family violence has closed, missing an important opportunity
  8. Why it is "reasonable and necessary" for the NDIS to support people's sex lives
  9. Coronavirus has turned retail therapy into retail anxiety – keeping customers calm will be key to carrying on
  10. When the Coronavirus Supplement stops, JobSeeker needs to increase by $185 a week
  11. Recessions scar young people their entire lives, even into retirement
  12. Home of the Arts – inside an arts centre keeping body and soul together
  13. How Mumbai's poorest neighbourhood is battling to keep coronavirus at bay
  14. After the bushfires, we helped choose the animals and plants in most need. Here's how we did it
  15. Plane cabins are havens for germs. Here's how they can clean up their act
  16. New Zealand's COVID-19 Tracer app won't help open a 'travel bubble' with Australia anytime soon
  17. Jim Chalmers on JobKeeper's flaws and the Eden-Monaro byelection
  18. 7 ways to manage your #coronaphobia
  19. Morrison government dangles new carrots for industry but fails to fix bigger climate policy problem
  20. The world agreed to a coronavirus inquiry. Just when and how, though, are still in dispute
  21. Coronavirus is a 'sliding doors' moment. What we do now could change Earth's trajectory
  22. Denied intimacy in 'iso', Aussies go online for adult content – so what's hot in each major city?
  23. why saliva tests could offer a better alternative to nasal COVID-19 swabs
  24. A thousand yarns and snapshots – why poetry matters during a pandemic
  25. The pieces of Australia post-coronavirus are falling into place
  26. how to count like a bee
  27. Don't want to send the kids back to school? Why not try unschooling at home
  28. Thanks to The Conversation's authors, for going above and beyond
  29. Recession hits Māori and Pasifika harder. They must be part of planning New Zealand's COVID-19 recovery
  30. Australia doesn't need more anti-terror laws that aren't necessary – or even used
  31. why we need to focus on increased consumption as much as population growth
  32. China used anti-dumping rules against us because what goes around comes around
  33. Australia must outperform to come out even from COVID-19
  34. Before epidemiologists began modelling disease, it was the job of astrologers
  35. Be worried when fossil fuel lobbyists support current environmental laws
  36. Why is the Australian government letting universities suffer?
  37. Democracy 2025 - Political trust in times of COVID-19 with Michelle Grattan, Mark Evans, Peter Shergold, and Renée Leon
  38. Could blood thinners be a lifesaving treatment for COVID-19? Here's what the science says and what it means for you
  39. These young Queenslanders are taking on Clive Palmer's coal company and making history for human rights
  40. Climate change threatens Antarctic krill and the sea life that depends on it
  41. Coronavirus anti-vaxxers aren’t a huge threat yet. How do we keep it that way?
  42. how history might read Morrison's coronavirus leadership
  43. Fang Fang's Wuhan diaries are a personal account of shared memory
  44. Is another huge and costly road project really Sydney's best option right now?
  45. The big stimulus spending has just begun. Here's how to get it right, quickly
  46. Are New Zealand's new COVID-19 laws and powers really a step towards a police state?
  47. Health-care workers share our trauma during the coronavirus pandemic – on top of their own
  48. View from The Hill: Bill Kelty's five-point plan for coming out of COVID
  49. the tertiary education union's deal with universities explained
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