Indholdsfortegnelse for 89.3 Jul-Sept 2018 i AQ: Australian Quarterly

Excuse me for a moment, I’d like to co-opt a recent Turnbull-ism: It’s an exciting time to be an Australian. I suspect that our PM and I would disagree on the reasons for this statement but hear me out. Yes, our political debate had become increasingly parlous over the last 20 years; yes, trust and faith in government have never been lower; yes, the overarching economic trend from the top-down continues to be tax-and-service-cuts-to-benefit-the-rich… But I’d like to inject a touch of optimism. Around the country the din of protest and genuine debate can be heard. It seems that no topic is publicly broached without the lens of inequality being considered; community and industry-pressure continue to frustrate antiquated energy policy; even some of our political parties are sticking their heads…

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“Human beings are not born to work for anybody else,” Muhammad Yunus tells me, words tumbling out in a near stream-of-consciousness. “For millions of years that we were on the planet, we never worked for anybody,” he says, his eyes sparkling. “We are go-getters. We are farmers. We are hunters. We lived in caves and we found our own food, we didn’t send job applications.” Professor Muhammad Yunus is a man that genuinely cares about human beings and their experience of living. He believes we are all born entrepreneurs, not mere workers and certainly not just ‘consumers.’ He believes that our modern economic system misunderstands human nature—sells it short—and that this is the cause of many of the problems facing our economic system. And he believes that every person should…

A nation in pain: Can medicinal cannabis help? 1 http://www.painaustralia.org.au/about-pain/painful-facts 2 https://www.aipc.net.au/articles/chronic-pain-definition-statistics-and-causes/ 3 http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/by%20Subject/3303.0~2016~Main%20Features~Drug%20Induced%20Deaths%20in%20Australia~6 4 http://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/marijuana-lethal-dose_us_58f4ec07e4b0b9e9848d6297 5 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2338266 6 https://www.nap.edu/catalog/24625/the-health-effects-of-cannabis-and-cannabinoids-the-current-state 7 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamainternalmedicine/fullarticle/1898878 8 https://www.racgp.org.au/newsGP/Racgp/RACGP-calls-for-consistent,-simplified-medicinal-c A new horizon: Australia in the global space race This is a truncated reference list. Access the full list at: http://bit.ly/AQSpace 1 https://www.industry.gov.au/industry/IndustrySectors/space/Documents/Australian-Government-Response-to-the-Review-of-Australian-Space-Industry-Capability.pdf 2, 70 Dougherty, Kerrie, Australia in Space (Hindmarsh, SA: ATF Press, 2017), pp 9-46. 3 Dougherty, above fn 3, pp 168-172. 4 https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/australian-space-agency-rhetoric-reality/ 5, 6, 12, 23, 24, 37, 38, 40, 75 https://www.industry.gov.au/industry/IndustrySectors/space/Documents/FINAL_ERG-Review-Report_10-May_accessible.pdf 7 The Space Foundation, The Space Report 2016: The Authoritative Guide to Global Space Activity (Colorado Springs, CO: The Space Foundation, 2016), p vii. 8 Accessed 22 May 2018 https://tradingeconomics.com/australia/gdp 9 https://www.industry.gov.au/industry/IndustrySectors/space/Documents/BRYCE-Australia-Global-Space-Industry-Dynamics-Paper.pdf 10 https://www.morganstanley.com/ideas/investing-in-space 11 https://www.cnbc.com/2017/10/31/the-space-industry-will-be-worth-nearly-3-trillion-in-30-years-bank-of-america-predicts.html 13 https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/new-partnershipadvances-australia’s-space-mission-capabilities and https://www.inovor.com.au/products/ 14 https://www.unsw.adfa.edu.au/space-research/space-research/research-themes/satellite-formation-flying 15 Hampson, Joshua, The Future of Space Commercialisation…

With shards of light spreading out over the dark green vista of trees below, Caprio reached into the urn and took out a handful of ash. He leaned over and opened his fingers, eyes welling, as the ashes blew away in the strong westerly wind. “My dad was in excruciating back pain and all he wanted was some relief,” Caprio, 34, told me. “But when he asked his doctors for some medicinal cannabis to help with the pain, the doctors wouldn’t prescribe it. The doctors were like, ‘Have some opioids instead’.” Caprio’s father was living in Canada when the forklift he was operating flipped over, causing a back injury that prevented him from returning to work. “It was a downward spiral after that,” Caprio, who was only 13 at the…

Barangaroo is a 22-hectare waterfront site to the west of Sydney's CBD. It became available for development after the shipping operations were moved to Port Botany in the 1990s. It is owned by the state government and has come to illustrate the issues of business and developers fighting for control of the development. In 2005 a design competition was launched for the site. The winning design had a harbour-side park along the entire waterfront, 233,000 m2 of commercial space and 35,000m2 for a hotel. The tallest building was 92 metres. But the design was jettisoned, and under the auspices of the Barangaroo Delivery Authority (note the name) that was established in 2009, the proposed floorspace has almost doubled, the waterfront park has shrunk to a 6-hectare site at the headland,…