Jessica Brown
Do corporations have a role to play in reforming important public institutions such as the United Nations? Absolutely, says Lani Cossette, chief-of-staff of Microsoft’s UN office, which opened last year. The tech giant claims to
Jessica Brown
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The surgical mask will be an enduring symbol of 2020: an icon of the pandemic. Flexible, durable and disposable, it is an ideal tool for infection control. Yet these very qualities also make masks emblematic
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On a sunny Saturday morning, an orderly queue of speedo and sandal wearers forms outside Bondi Surf Bathers' Life Saving Club. One-by-one, people disappear inside, re-emerging a few minutes later. Most then collect a hot
Jessica Brown
Until the pandemic struck, 2020 was set to be a big year for saving the oceans. As the new decade dawned, spirits among the loose community of activists, scientists, policymakers and businesspeople who had built
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In the pandemic panic, policymakers the world over have rushed to splash cash. ‘Helicopter money,’ dropped like manna from the sky into the wallets of ordinary citizens (and perhaps designed to be remembered come polling
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Not long ago, belching buses were the blight of almost all big cities. Today, commuters are increasingly likely to hop on a quiet, clean electric bus. “When we started speaking to manufacturers about electrifying bus
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The Qantas fleet of A380s may be languishing thousands of miles from home in the dry heat of the Mojave desert, but chief executive Alan Joyce is optimistic about the airline’s future. Delta, American, United,
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From teens on Tik Tok and bankers in beach houses to rural kids climbing rooftops to get a signal strong enough for school, the pandemic has shown up the economic, social and educational chasm that
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In what turned out to be two of his last public appearances before resigning, on August 6th in Hiroshima and three days later in Nagasaki, Shinzo Abe, Japan’s Prime Minister for the past 12 years,