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Why Australia should engage with the unemployment crisis affecting Indian youth

  • Written by: Craig Jeffrey, Director and CEO of the Australia India Institute; Professor of Development Geography, University of Melbourne
Why Australia should engage with the unemployment crisis affecting Indian youthMumbai, India. sladkozaponi/Shutterstock

Loki Singh is a 28-year-old living in the west of Uttar Pradesh, India. He has three university degrees from the local college, but despite persisting, he has not been able to get a government job.

“Degrees here are useless,” he told me. “A university is a place where the professors...

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India's grand experiment in corporate social responsibility is heading for trouble

  • Written by: Monika Kansal, Senior Lecturer, Accounting, CQUniversity Australia
India's grand experiment in corporate social responsibility is heading for troubleHeading for failure: shifting the burden of social development programs to business enterprises may prove to be a huge mistake by India's national government.Shutterstock

Rubina Akbar has given birth to 17 children. That’s high even in her village, where mothers average eight children. But here, in a rural district less than 100 kilometres...

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it might take revenge in the future

  • Written by: Nicholas Agar, Professor of Ethics, Victoria University of Wellington
it might take revenge in the futureWe might not like the way future AI responds to us.Shutterstock/Mykola Holyutyak

Artificial intelligence (AI) systems are becoming more like us. You can ask Google Home to switch off your bedroom lights, much as you might ask your human partner.

When you text inquiries to Amazon online it’s sometimes unclear whether you’re being...

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How recognising Jesus as a victim of sexual abuse might help shift Catholic culture

  • Written by: David Tombs, Chair professor, University of Otago
How recognising Jesus as a victim of sexual abuse might help shift Catholic cultureCrucifixion was a form of state terror and victims were likely to be stripped. from www.shutterstock.com, CC BY-SA

The crisis of sexual abuse within the Catholic Church, and the institutional denial and cover up, has left many people of faith shocked by the lack of appropriate response toward survivors.

Archbishop Mark Coleridge of Brisbane, the...

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