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Future Leaders is a national Initiative about leadership and the future of Australia. It seeks to involve, inform and inspire young people.
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“Western liberal thinkers and politicians note with pride democracy’s expansion across much of the globe …”
“The year 2010 was climatically distinctive. Globally, it was one of the two hottest years in the 150-year (surface thermometer) record …”
“Much of our agricultural land is presently straining under the ‘worst drought in living memory’: 80% of Queensland is drought declared …”
“There are many different ways that faults in the genetic code can occur. Alterations to the genetic code can arise at any level …”
“Genes influence every aspect of a person’s health, from the ability to resist infection with a pathogen, to how medication is metabolised …”
“To the great surprise of many well-informed people in developed countries, malaria remains a major problem in the world today …”
“Our world in the second decade of the 21st century is characterised by extensive growth of the human population (7.2 billion humans in 2014 …”
“Noncommunicable diseases (NCDs; e.g., cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and respiratory disease) represent a profound threat to the health …”
“Most people care about the welfare of future generations. Parents want their children and grandchildren to live good lives …”
“If an advertising guru, a famous writer and an even more famous philosopher between them are right, in order to foster creativity we need curiosity about life …”
“Soon after the internet began to expand as a global communication network, in the early days of Web 1.0, the founder of a US-based, now worldwide …”
“Why can’t we get action from science?
As a child health researcher and advocate, there are many
situations which make me anxious in Australia in 2014. Child
abuse and neglect is apparently …”
“In 1989, the American scholar Francis Fukuyama wrote a famous essay called The End of History?. This is the way he subsequently …”
“Gender equality’s great promise is that it benefits all people, children, life partners, workplaces, our economy and democratic culture …”
“As a child I worried about the poor. I thought about them almost as much as I thought about how much I wanted to own a horse …”
“What’s the big deal about the present moment? When we reflect on our most important formative experiences in life – and they do not come along every day …”
“Future justice has an economic dimension because economic decisions made today will have an impact on the level of wellbeing …”
“The medical profession is perhaps best known for its contribution to curative medicine. Each day we read about advances …”
“Just three years ago WikiLeaks was virtually unknown and its founder, Julian Assange, was next to unrecognisable as a national, let alone global identity …”
“When I was a judge for a writing prize on climate change, I came across and was impressed by an essay by Stephanie Foster …”
“Alcohol and drugs: Why do people take them, what do they hope to get out of taking them? Why do things go wrong sometimes? How do people get into trouble? …”
“On a physical level Homo sapiens (Latin: ‘wise man’) have changed little over the last 20,000 years. Nonetheless, there has been a tremendous evolution …”
“In 64AD, the city of Rome, mistress of the known world, was ravaged by a ferocious fire. The blaze swept through the crowded alleyways …”
“The emergence of the Internet is one of the most significant leaps in the history of humanity. Information, knowledge and culture are exchanged …”
“It is 40 years since the first land rights claim by Aboriginal people was instituted in Australia. It was dismissed: Milirrpum v Nabalco Pty Ltd (1971) …”
“In the second week of rehearsals I was going to the toilet so often I knew the exact number of steps it would take to get me there …”
“And then, that must be space. Because we call it space …”
“In this chapter I will be discussing the role of the media in a liberal democracy, and the tension between the essential free flow of information in a free society …”
“In Australia we cherish the freedom to tell it as it is. It’s part of our heritage, and now ingrained in our culture …”
“Some time back, I was reading the death notices in The Age, as one does, of course, when one retires and returns to Melbourne! One death notice intrigued me …”
“A few years ago, a survey asked several hundred Americans what they feared more: death, or running out of money during retirement …”
“We are living in the future.
No, seriously … we are, it is true! …”
“In September 2007, IBT Education Limited, Australia’s only stock market-listed provider of higher education, held its annual …”
“It took over 10 years and US$3 billion to sequence the first human genome. Next generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have made it possible …”
“When I was a child, I was by no means alone in having Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) as one of my great heroes …”
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