Opinion

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How athletes perceive their human rights is, at last, getting attention, says Nikki Dryden, Olympian and Associate at the Australian Human Rights Institute at UNSW Sydney.

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We’re facing a significant advance in AI using methods that are not described in scientific literature, and with datasets restricted to a single for-profit company.

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Almost 200 countries are reckoning with the world’s extraordinary loss of the variety of life at the COP15 nature summit in Canada. Here’s why Indigenous involvement is crucial.

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The assumption that women are just smaller versions of men has been widely used in biomedical research. A new mouse study indicates that’s unlikely to be true.

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The licence didn’t extend to trading in cryptocurrenices, and had been granted to a firm FTX took over, rather than FTX itself.

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Ada Lovelace said computers could not invent. But a century later, Alan Turing pointed out inventiveness in machines could be found in their capacity to produce surprising and innovative results.

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Nona Willis Aronowitz, daughter of a second-wave feminist, ranges across the contemporary sexual landscape – and looks back at the history of feminism – in a ‘zig zag pursuit of sexual liberation’.

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There has been much debate about the “details” of the Voice to Parliament, but the referendum is on the principle.

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The Albanese government wants to change the way referendums work ahead of the Voice to Parliament vote. There are still flaws, but it is a step in the right direction.

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After participation in the Literacy for Life Foundation adult literacy campaign, serious offences by students dropped by almost 65%.

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