AQ: Australian Quarterly

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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AQ: Australian Quarterly

Living Under the Influence Behaviourism and the Hidden Costs of Intervening in Human Complexity • In his 2006 book Infotopia: How Many Minds Produce Knowledge,1 Harvard Law Professor Cass Sunstein imagined a hypothetical future in which technological protocols of openness, and collaborative socio-political norms, result in an unprecedented explosion of useful and accurate knowledge becoming available to ever greater numbers of people.

The Politicisation of Open Debate: The Hypocrisy of the Robert Menzies Institute • From August to November 2021, Joel completed an internship with the Australian Institute of Policy and Science (AIPS) in concert with a university subject. He provided this provocation as part of his work for the AIPS.

Apartment Chic, Apartment Sick? The Quiet Virtues of Due Diligence • The pressure in Australia for medium and high-density living involves a property class previously associated with public housing. Can today’s private sector make a better fist of it? Without responsible regulation and mindful building occupants, a slippery slope might leave dense apartment living chic one day, sick the next. Some years from now, mass strata occupancy could be seen as a live experiment in sociality and institutional organisation. But for now any retreat from energetic construction activity seems impossible, given union potency, political acquiescence and facilitation, and limited alternatives towards the holy grail of national economic growth.

International Law, Organised Crime and the Chinese Communist Party • On the 19th of July 2021, US Secretary of State, Mr Antony Blinken attracted considerable attention when he referred to acts allegedly carried out by criminals in collusion with the People’s Republic of China (PRC) Ministry of State Security (MSS). Mr Blinken claimed that the MSS ‘…fostered an ecosystem of criminal contract hackers who carry out both state-sponsored activities and cybercrime for their own financial gain.’1

Leading for the Future: The Tall Poppy Awards 2021

Tall Poppy Awards 2021 Winners

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