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While this influence (often euphemistically described as ‘lobbying’) is an established element of the legitimate dialogue between democracies and businesses, in this instance the social media giants let their mask slip, illustrating the disproportion

After the first wave of imported cases from returning travellers subsided in early 2020, many decision makers responded rapidly and aggressively to any outbreaks stemming from imported cases. Most states and terri-tories endured such “snap lockdowns”

It is the highest level since 1988, in the quarterly data published by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA)1 and the Bank of International Settlements (BIS)2. But a few minutes’ browsing on the RBA website will locate Occasional Paper No. 8: Australia

Although soil may no longer be the ‘black box’ that it once was for ecologists and agricultural scientists, the ecosystems beneath our feet are complex. We have only lit a candle in a very large dark room. Microorganisms, including fungi, dominate so

EDITOR FORWARD This year we celebrate the incredible milestone of 90 years of the ABC! As such, AQ has dived back into the archives to find our earliest mention of Aunty – 1936 – only 4 years after the ABC’s creation. And it’s a cracker of a time-cap

1. Bjarke Mønsted & Sune Lehmann 2022 ‘Characterizing polarization in online vaccine discourse—A large-scale study’ Plos One https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263746, Demos 2020 Renew Normal https://renewnormal.co.uk/ and Erik Peterson & Shanto I