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Australia needs a capability state
Australia has immense natural, financial and scientific wealth, but has failed to turn enough of it into productive industries, skills and long-term national capability.
The disappearance of political shame
AUKUS leaves Australia with the long nuclear goodbye – part two
Multiculturalism is the middle ground Australia needs
Artists need copyright plus in the age of AI
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