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After 'WannaCrypt', should governments stockpile software vulnerabilities? Experts respond

  • Written by Greg Austin, Professor, Australian Centre for Cyber Security, UNSW

The “WannaCrypt” malware has disrupted vital infrastructure in almost 100 countries so far. Security analysts are concerned it may be part of a dump of security flaws a group called the Shadow Brokers claims to have stolen from the United States’ National Security Agency.

In a blog post Sunday, Microsoft’s president and...

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What types of people will lead our great energy transition?

  • Written by Marc Hudson, PhD Candidate, Sustainable Consumption Institute, University of Manchester

We sit transfixed, watching the Great Barrier Reef bleach, while our leaders brandish lacquered lumps of coal and energy policy is shaped by tweets.

Each day reminds us of the line credited to the US poet Dorothy Parker: “what fresh hell is this?”

Her contemporary Antonio Gramsci, got it about right when he wrote:

The crisis consists...

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'Show me the sole': the exhilarating sight of sneakers on show

  • Written by Clarissa ball, Lecturer in History of Art, University of Western Australia
imagePierre Hardy's Poworama, 2011 Collection of the Bata Shoe Museum, gift of Pierre Hardy. Ron Wood Courtesy American Federation of Arts/Bata Shoe Museum

It is not often that one walks into an art gallery to be greeted by an air of exhilaration. Such was the case at the Art Gallery of Western Australia on “Sneaker Saturday”, the opening...

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Helping drug users get back to work, not random drug testing, should be our priority

  • Written by Nicholas Lintzeris, Clinical Professor and Addiction Medicine specialist, University of Sydney
imageUrine samples can pick up some types of illicit drugs but can't say whether that drug use affects someone's ability to look for work.from www.shutterstock.com

Drug testing people on welfare, as proposed in this year’s federal budget, is a blunt way of tackling problems drug users face when looking for work.

The underlying concept of increasing...

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  1. The off-topic Conversation #123
  2. Why do some graziers want to retain, not kill, dingoes?
  3. Navigating the post-truth debate: some key co-ordinates
  4. Los Angeles Overnight – one of the best films you will (probably) never see
  5. Coalition two-party vote slips in post-budget Newspoll
  6. From 'white flight' to 'bright flight' – the looming risk for our growing cities
  7. The gender pay gap is hurting productivity
  8. Why bad moods are good for you: the surprising benefits of sadness
  9. Terahertz spectroscopy: the new tool to help detect art fraud
  10. Fairytale no more: when love turns to hatefully ever after
  11. Australia’s biggest emitters opt to 'wait and see' over Emissions Reduction Fund
  12. Fireworks, feelings, and fraught relations at Eurovision 2017
  13. Massive global ransomware attack highlights faults and the need to be better prepared
  14. Former FBI director James Comey very likely caused Trump's win
  15. Drug testing welfare recipients raises questions about data profiling and discrimination
  16. Black is the New White gives the comedy of manners an irreverent makeover
  17. Two years after the earthquake, why has Nepal failed to recover?
  18. The federal budget doesn't do enough to save free-to-air TV
  19. Weekly Quiz: what is Colony Collapse Disorder?
  20. Don't be fooled, the Medicare Guarantee Fund provides no real guarantee
  21. Remembering Bill Tutte: another brilliant codebreaker from World War II
  22. Should we worry about Islamism in Indonesia?
  23. VIDEO: Michelle Grattan on the 2017 budget
  24. Distrust of experts happens when we forget they are human beings
  25. Every critic counts: why Fairfax must keep its arts journalists
  26. Why media reform in Australia has been so hard to achieve
  27. La théologie a-t-elle sa place à l’université ?
  28. Shorten fights on fairness in budget reply, but will it be enough?
  29. Friday essay: smile and stay thin – life as a 60s air hostess
  30. Not a lizard nor a dinosaur, tuatara is the sole survivor of a once-widespread reptile group
  31. Found: 'lost' forests covering an area two-thirds the size of Australia
  32. Assessment design won’t stop cheating, but our relationships with students might
  33. There's a strong link between anxiety and depression, and sleep problems, and it goes both ways
  34. Budget 2017 charts new social and affordable housing agenda
  35. Grattan on Friday: With Malcolm Turnbull in pursuit, Bill Shorten decides to run faster
  36. Labor to oppose Medicare levy for lower and middle earners
  37. Vale Mark Colvin: eternal optimist and journalistic force of nature
  38. Budget 2017: welfare changes stigmatise recipients and are sitting on shaky ground
  39. Mental health funding in the 2017 budget is too little, unfair and lacks a coherent strategy
  40. The 2017 budget has axed research to help Australia adapt to climate change
  41. Aussies don't always copy the US - unlike Americans, our self-esteem has stayed the same since the 70s
  42. Budget 2017: a glimmer of support for innovation and advanced manufacturing
  43. Budget 2017: lack of competition is why government is moving so hard against the banks
  44. Speaking with: Mia Woodruff about using 3D printing to replace body parts
  45. Survival of the fittest? Perhaps not if you're a Tasmanian devil
  46. The off-topic Conversation #122
  47. Explainer: how the brain changes when we learn to read
  48. Humane and intimate, how the Red Cross helped families trace the fates of WW2 soldiers
  49. How our gut bacteria affect cancer risk and response to treatment
  50. Budget needs a sharper policy scalpel to help first home buyers

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