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Posted inNational, Solutions

After a bushfire, people need new housing fast. This might be the answer

11 April 202511 April 2025

Australia’s experience with modular housing after the 2019-20 bushfires is helping shape disaster recovery solutions in LA, showcasing how Aussie innovation supports fast, sustainable rebuilding worldwide.

Posted inLocal, Solutions

Why regional communities need local news to be told

11 April 202511 April 2025

Provision of local news is critical to healthy and engaged regional communities. It is vital local news coverage is supported as traditional outlets cut back.

Posted inOpinion

Education at Risk

10 April 202510 April 2025

Local educator Denise McHugh says Dutton’s relentless attacks on education are an insult and need to be called out.

Posted inNational, Solutions

Repositioning the perception of public transport and active mobility to counter car dependency

9 April 20258 April 2025

The most significant national health emergency of our recent lifetime and experience officially came to an end on 20 October, 2023, when the Australian government declared that COVID-19 was no longer a communicable disease of national significance.

Posted inNational, Think

Selling your old laptop or phone? You might be handing over your data too

8 April 202516 April 2025

You’re about to recycle your laptop or your phone, so you delete all your photos and personal files. Maybe you even reset the device to factory settings.

Posted inSocial, Think

Maybe the problem isn’t critical thinking, but how we assess it

5 April 20255 April 2025

There is a growing concern that Australia’s university students lack critical thinking, but maybe the problem is how we teach and assess it

Posted inPolitics

Could this election campaign be less inspiring?

5 April 202516 April 2025

RK Crosby asks where have all the good leaders gone?

Posted inSolutions

Risky business: Bridging the insurance gap

4 April 20255 April 2025

Australians facing steep insurance premium rises in a world of disasters are sharing a global problem. The solutions are out there, but they are complex.

Posted inPolitics

The new kids shaping the election block

3 April 20253 April 2025

Gen Z and other relatively young Australians who feel they owe little to major parties are an unpredictable voting force heading into the 2025 federal election.

Posted inLocal

Need for Public Transport in northern New England

1 April 20259 April 2025

Siri Gamage calls on federal election candidates to advocate for better public transport, and restoring train services north of Armidale.

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