95.3 Jul-Sept 2024

AQ: Australian Quarterly

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EDITOR: Grant Mills ASSISTANT EDITOR: Stephen Burke DESIGN AND PRODUCTION: Art Graphic Design, Canberra PRINTING: Newstyle Printing, Adelaide Stephen Burke, General Manager, AIPS Leon R Beswick (co-Chair) Andrew Goodsall Maria Kavallaris (co-Chair) P
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When is Enough, Enough?
It is hard to write about a subject that is as typically dry and tedious as economics in a way that is consistently engaging. One writer who managed to do that, as indicative of the opening quote, was Harvard economist, diplomat, and presidential adv
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Losing Control: Later Retirement and Wellbeing
As you near the end of your working life, it’s natural to start counting down the days until your ‘retirement’. For the lucky ones, retirement is voluntary and can be a decision made independent of government policy. For others, it is a countdown to
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A Word
Once again, we have an edition bursting with ideas – from an Australian scientific discovery that could save millions of lives around the world, to comprehensively rethinking our tax and energy systems. There has been a significant, if subtle, shift
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Watt Equity?
Within the energy industry there is a popular, feel-good refrain that the energy transition will deliver a system that is ‘democratised’, in addition to being ‘decarbonised’, ‘digitised’, and ‘decentralised’. Here democratised is used as an umbrella
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Beyond The Battlefield: Rethinking Resilience In The 21st Century
SPOILER ALERT: This article discusses details of the movie ‘Leave the World Behind’, currently on Netflix. Some spoilers will be unavoidable. Leave the World Behind was one of the most provocative movies of 2023, representing an all too modern apocal
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Read-Write-Own-Tax
Blockchain technology and the consequential cryptoeconomy it enabled, may be described as one of the biggest digital revolutions since the internet. We have seen web technology shift from its beginnings of ‘read’ only (web1) to ‘read-write’ (web2). T
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References
1. Galbraith, J.K., 1958/1999. The Affluent Society. Penguin, London. 2. Ibid. 3. Chang, H.J., 2014. Economics: The User’s Guide. London: Penguin Books. 4. Veblen, T., 1899/2007. The Theory of the Leisure Class. Oxford University Press. 5. Galbraith,
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Combatting Sepsis, the Biggest Killer in Intensive Care Units
Vulnerable populations, especially in low-income and developing countries are disproportionately affected by this devastating disease. Due to an ageing population and an increasing prevalence of antibiotic resistance, the annual incidence of sepsis,

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