For over 85 years AQ: Australian Quarterly has been packing its pages with the country’s most distinguished and passionate thinkers, tackling the big issues in science, politics and society. With longer-style articles written by those at the forefront of the debates, AQ is unique in bridging the gap between journal and magazine, combining the compelling writing of a glossy with the intellectual rigour of a journal. If it matters to Australia then it matters to AQ.

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Game of Sabotage: The culture war for the ABC • Let’s say you’re a conservative MP and you don’t really like the national broadcaster. You think it’s a bit too woke and progressive and you’re over the way it gives voice to sections of the community that don’t like what your government is doing. What can you do to rein it in and make it behave the way you’d like?

Can artificial intelligence be trusted with our human rights? • Too often, we humans make bad decisions. And those bad decisions have consequences, including for our human rights. Artificial intelligence offers the promise of better decisions, removing prejudice and other harmful irrationality—but how realistic is this promise? Focusing on facial recognition technology, this article explores how effectively AI is living up to the hype, and whether it will improve our human rights protections.

How does facial recognition work?

A cause for celebration • A paradigm shift in macroeconomics is underway

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What do you hope for in 2021?

AQ | Q&A WITH DR KATHRYN BOWEN • With COVID-19 demonstrating just how interconnected everything in our society is, AQ chatted with climate change and health expert, Dr Kathryn Bowen, who graciously agreed to Zoom in-between home schooling sessions from her lockdown in Melbourne…

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