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How can Australia and the UK build public trust in elections? How are they countering misinformation and foreign interference? Why is the absolute independence of their electoral commission so important? In this National Security Podcast, Australian Electoral Commissioner Tom Rogers and Commissioner of the UK Electoral Commission Vijay Rangarajan join Professor Rory Medcalf to discuss electoral integrity in Australia and the UK.
What’s behind the silence and lack of post-Voice analysis? How can Australia confront its true history? And how can we modernise our democracy and constitutional processes? On this episode of Democracy Sausage, publisher and founding editor of Griffith Review Professor Emerita Julianne Schultz joins Professor Mark Kenny to talk about the Voice to Parliament referendum and understanding what we mean when we say 'Australia'.
"More than 16 per cent of young adults in Australia are acting in a caring role for someone with a long-term health condition or chronic illness, according to a new survey from The Australian National University (ANU) ... According to the survey, most young carers are providing between two to five hours of care per week. Professor Edwards and his team also asked the cohort of young carers about their future career and study aspirations."
In the third instalment of Little Red Podcast's series on the Chinese criminal pig butchering scams enslaving people from at least 66 different countries, Graeme is joined by Jason Tower, director of the Burma Program at the United States Institute of Peace, and Greg Raymond from the ANU Strategic and Defence Studies Centre. They also identify a shift in which countries are the most profitable choice for scammers.
In the first of a new blog series in which they analyse Australian Census data to explore the demographic characteristics of the Pacific diaspora, ANU experts Huiyuan Liu and Toan Nguyen focusing on age. Aside from interesting national
differences, they show that overall, Pacific migrants are younger than those from Europe, North America, and New Zealand. Though they arrive older, they haven't typically lived in Australia for as long.
As the Australian Government implements Labor's Future Made in Australia agenda, how should Australia define 'economic security'? How much should Australia focus on China, and could 'supply chain chokepoints' really be weaponised to coerce Australia? In this episode of Australia in the World, Darren welcomes Dr Huw McKay to the podcast, offering listeners a perspective on economic security from the realm of big business.
"Regardless of whether their actions are by Beijing’s design, China stands to benefit from the international spread of its AI firms. As well as the increased international influence that Beijing is likely to reap thanks to the expanding role of Chinese technology companies in overseas markets, the reach of its firms is normalising China’s preferred AI standards and potentially its approach to governance more generally."
"No campaigners said the Voice wasn’t the right solution, that they had better alternatives. In the 12 months since the referendum failed, no one’s offered any real solutions."
"The same is true of the government. The pursuit of market-based wealth for some privileged few First Nations peoples and communities ... is not 'economic development' for all mobs."
In this episode of Tech Mirror, Professor at the ANU School of Cybernetics Angie Abdilla and co-author of the Indigenous Protocols for Artificial Intelligence joins Johanna. They discuss the value of seeing technology from with a non-western worldview, Indigenous Knowledge systems, Deep Time technologies, Country Centred Design Practices, and Indigenous data sovereignty, especially in the context of the Closing the Gap reforms.
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