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How China’s chip strategy outsmarts Trump’s tariff trap

China’s semiconductor chip industry is decentralised, politically curated and immune to single points of failure

Politics & Society

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Opinion

The Australian Opposition’s electoral woes will get worse before they get better

Focusing on the ‘Trump-lite’ policies of the Liberal Party obscures the deep structural issues it faces

Politics & Society

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Opinion

Like Canada, Australia has rejected Trump’s disruption

Many Australians saw this Federal election as a referendum on the country’s future in a world re-shaped by Donald Trump. Labor’s confident win is a data point in a global realignment

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Analysis

Are young men really becoming more conservative?

Many young Australians are angry and disenfranchised, not least young men, but stigmatising and demonising them is counterproductive

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Analysis

US tariffs have backfired, and China is winning in Southeast Asia

Punishing nations for cooperating with China just pushes them closer to America’s economic rival

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Book extract

Why do women still have less status and power than men?

A new book, Patriarchy Inc., makes the case for a new approach to gender equality in work – one that’s fairer, more secure, and more rewarding for all of us

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Opinion

Is the US Government handing its tariff decision making to AI?

There are big risks in replacing experts with AI to make decisions on global trade, and we may be about to find out what can go wrong

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Research

Reuniting artist Reggie Uluru with his restored Ngintaka sculpture

When Aṉangu artist Reggie Uluru’s sculpture was damaged, conservators from the Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation repaired the work, ready for repainting

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Analysis

What Adolescence gets right (and wrong) about the manosphere

The Netflix series Adolescence raises the important issue of online radicalisation and the manosphere – but there’s no easy solution

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Opinion

We’re living through an age of technical, cultural and political disruption

Feeling unsettled? We’re living through the consequences of a culture of disruption that’s been centuries in the making