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Move over Canada and EU, Australia is best placed to benefit in the US-China trade tug-of-war

  • Written by: Giovanni Di Lieto, Lecturer of international trade law, Monash Business School, Monash University

Australian firms are in a sweet spot between the bickering United States and China, where they can sell more and buy more cheaply because of weaker competition in both markets. Essentially, the mutual tariffs are a double blessing for Australia.

The latest escalation of the ongoing tariff war promises to impact on international trade exchanges to...

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on the trail of the London thylacines

  • Written by: Penny Edmonds, Associate Professor, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, University of Tasmania
on the trail of the London thylacinesThylacine joey, from the collections of the Natural History Museum, LondonPenny Edmonds

On a cold, dark night in the winter of June 2017, hundreds of people gathered on the lawns of Hobart’s parliament house to join a procession that carried an effigy of a giant Tasmanian tiger (thylacine) to be ritually burnt at Macquarie Point.

In an act...

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Why Australia should be wary of the rise of the warrior cop, with tools to match

  • Written by: Terry Goldsworthy, Assistant Professor in Criminology, Bond University
Why Australia should be wary of the rise of the warrior cop, with tools to matchPart of the concern about any move to arm frontline police with military hardware is the rise of the 'warrior cop' phenomenon.AAP/James Ross

Heightened concerns over terrorism and claims of an escalation in gun-related crime have led to calls for Australian police to gain more widespread access to military-style rifles.

Two propositions need to be...

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blending science with science fiction

  • Written by: Christopher Benjamin Menadue, PhD Candidate, Literature and Society, James Cook University
blending science with science fictionFact or fiction? Either way, an alien still seems menacing. Cindy Zhi/The Conversation, CC BY

This article is part of our occasional series Zoom Out. Here we offer authors a slightly longer essay format to widen their focus, and explore key ideas in science and technology in the broader context of society and humanity.

Theoretical physicist Stephen...

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