AQ: Australian Quarterly

10/01/2025

AI facial recognition has already been used on Australians - do you know if your face has been scanned? Australia is behind the rest of the world in regulating the controversial tech - and we all need to be involved in the discussion.

Otherwise, once again, we will be the lambs, watched over by faceless wolves. Find out more, only in AQ: https://buff.ly/3TG4wWR

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09/01/2025

Your Mouth Matters...we live in a society where there's money in bad health so there's little investment in preventative medicine. Dental health is an example of this. It's estimated 87,000 hospital visits could have been avoided in Australia there had been earlier intervention on patients dental issues.

Australia needs to "put the head back on the body" and understand that what happens in your mouth has huge repercussions for your whole body health. Find out more in the new AQ

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07/01/2025

When we think chronic pain, we generally don't think about kids - yet internationally 20% of kids experience chronic pain, and neither they or their community are equipped to discuss and deal with this.

It ends up being a huge burden and can lead to education and social issues long term. Pain education in school could make all the difference, find out more in the new AQ!

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04/01/2025

Did you know Australian taxpayers are footing the bill for native forrest logging?! The industry loses huge amounts of money, propped up by government money - Why??

It's not to save jobs. In the new AQ, we look at governments subsidising the destruction of native forests, habitat for increasingly precarious native animals - and why a transition away could actually result in more jobs.

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03/01/2025

Happy New Year junkies! It's going to be a big year so start getting up to speed with what's happening at the intersection between science, policy and society - only in AQ!

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26/12/2024

New AQ out Jan 1st! Criminal economics destroying native forests, preventative medicine and social innovation, and the erosion of your privacy by AI facial recognition - this edition has it all!

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29/10/2024

$$ of education in Oz is increasing - yet are the benefits declining? What can be done to fix and uni funding itfor students, universities and the Gov.

's education expert, Prof Ken Gannicott, marks HECS on it's performance. All this and more in the new AQ: https://buff.ly/4e0H2T5

27/10/2024

The is only weeks away - so far it has been toxic, powered by hate speech, fearmongering and prejudice. What can Australia do to inoculate us against going down the same road?

First we can understand that language is the first weapon of violence. In the new AQ, dissects the mechanics of .

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25/10/2024

in the Pacific is already affecting economies. But what about the non-economic effects to connections to land, culture and traditional knowledge?

New AQ looks at the impossible choices facing these communities.

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12/10/2024

has changed the course of Australia's history, enabling huge numbers of students to go to uni - but now the economic value of getting a degree has decreased. In many cases, the value of a degree is less than the debt to get it...

In the new AQ, we look at what can be done with HECS to reinvigorate it for a new age.

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10/10/2024

Oz's Housing Crisis is not uniform - Sydney and Darwin have different challenges but equally need intervention.

In the new AQ we look at what the issues and solutions might be with a tale of two cities.

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Science, Politics, Society and the spheres in which they collide. AQ brings you in-depth analysis of the debates shaping Australia.

08/10/2024

Pacific islands are already suffering losses - the loss of culture, connection to country and the things that cant be accounted on a spreadsheet? And what happens when losses are inevitable?

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Science, Politics, Society and the spheres in which they collide. AQ brings you in-depth analysis of the debates shaping Australia.

07/10/2024

The Middle East crisis is testing Australia's - and when tensions flare up, language is the first weapon of violence. Only by understanding the mechanics of hate speech, can we identify it and inoculate our society against it.

Read the cover article of the new AQ now - "Going Through Social Red Lights: Combatting Hate Speech, Prejudice, and Incitement"

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13/08/2024

has just released 'Informit Explore', Australia’s first major research and learning database designed for secondary schools and public libraries, offering ready-made teaching and learning tools that guide students, educators, and library patrons towards reputable, trusted sources of information.

And AQ is featured! Use Informit Explore to delve deep into the AQ archives or use it to find new sources of reliable information is this age of confusion!

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06/08/2024

Thanks to AQ author, Bjorn Sturmberg, for taking AQ to his parliamentary meetings, including with Assistance Minister for Climate Change and Energy, !

A really diverse and engaging edition, touching on everything from energy equity and a Basic Energy Right for all Australians, through to Australia's defence spending, a new age for our tax system, and the world's addiction to growth.

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04/08/2024

Every year, 50 million people are affected by sepsis – 1 in 5 won’t survive. Yet a new Australian treatment might be able to treat the worst outcomes of the disease, potentially saving huge amounts of lives

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31/07/2024

Despite decades of efforts to reduce humanity’s material footprint, we are using the planet’s natural resources at an accelerating rate. Capitalism and the metrics by which we measure ‘growth’ demand an ever-increasing consumption, directly at odds with our own planetary survival.

We refuse to entertain the idea that we are on a squirrel wheel of consumption that we can’t get off. Can we reimagine ‘growth’ and find a way to have a society-wide discussion on ‘When is enough, enough?’

Read Dr Vishnu Prahalad in the new AQ on the details we all need to know!

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31/07/2024

For thousands of years, military capability has been equated with the power of a country amongst its neighbours. As a result, nations have dedicated substantial budgets to their military and defence industries.

Yet the rise of digital technologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI), has begun to challenge this definition of power. Threats to a nation’s stability can no longer be held off by military power alone – they are digital, informational, social. Yet our defence spending hardly reflects this changing threat landscape.

In the new AQ, Giorgia Franciamore, interrogates whether Australia's defence spending is really protecting us from the likely threats.

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