How do we really fight world hunger and poverty? Or is it possible to get rid of inequality altogether?
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    I am asking this question because the UN has identified a set of development goals such as equal access to education and eradication of poverty that it made me wonder if we as citizens of the world can truly achieve these goals.

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    @mikaelakristin
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    How far are we from a borderless, visa-less world?
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    I’m a traveller, and as an Indian, I find travelling beyond India quite challenging due to Visa restrictions. This is a symptom of a larger problem. Till the time there are boundaries, there are going to be conflicts. The direction of history has been towards unification, we have far less independent political sovereignities today in the world than ever in history, but world unification still seems elusive. Is it going to happen anytime soon?

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    @itaintsodeep
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    Is the world changing for the better or worse?
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    I always wonder!

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    @shohrem
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    Does democracy allow for diversity, which is equitable?
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    I am a teacher and very interested in finding peaceful pathways for multi-culturalism.

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    @@PreludePrefect
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    How do you maintain the discipline that allows you to be wild?
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    For Cheryl Strayed. Getting started might be an impulse. From there to the finish requires something else.

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    @Peterhgh
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    what does it mean to be ‘wild’ in an urban world?
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    Modern existence is tethered to urban environments, but many aspects of human nature don’t fall in neat urban planned lines; whilst activities and initiatives exist to give life to the city, what would true urban freedom, the capacity to grow uncontrolled or unrestrained mean for health and happiness?

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    @keelymalady
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    What will it take for Australia to stop targeting Islam?
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    Australia has had several significant waves of migration (eg. Greeks, Vietnamese, Africans). Each wave coincides with which group mainstream Australia directs it’s vitriol, fear mongering and racism. But the targeting of Islam has been particularly intense.

    This matters to me as a daughter of migrant parents, and a mother of bi-racial kids, who simply wants them to grow up in a world free of racial and religious judgement.

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    @miss_dianne_t
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    How can we build a social consensus to enable us to constructively and urgently combat runaway climate change?
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    I have a deep concern that our continued inability to seriously confront this climate change issue will result in massive and irreversible damage and ultimately destruction of our beautiful home,Planet Earth.

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    David Jewell
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    Who is the expert – the observer, or the person who has lived the experience?
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    Think about the various ways seeing and how expertise is allotted in our society and which point of view is given privilege of expression, employment, publicity and notoriety…

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    @initiallyno
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    What are the practical, everyday benefits we might experience living in a ‘more agile’ Australia?
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    Political rhetoric seldom translates easily into discernible difference at the individual level. When Malcolm Turnbull proposes an increasingly ‘agile’ Australia, what real difference will this occasion in our 21st-century, day-to-day lives?

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    @T1MK
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    If we were in groundhog day but didn’t realise, every day would be identical. How can one explain ‘free will’ in that context?
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    Sure Bill Murray is awesome but what about poor Ned Ryerson had he no agency?

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    Tim
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    Can you really combat terrorism when terrorism is whatever the state wants it to be?
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    Thinking about the past Communist vs Fascist dualism, and now the “good” vs “evil” i.e. the “West” vs “terrorism” dualism, and past and present governments using these terms as pawns for their own agenda, perhaps rendering them meaningless. Also thinking about the list of organisations deemed ‘terrorist’ orgs by Australia, e.g. the PKK Kurdish Workers Party who are fighting ISIS (therefore, terrorism) in Kobane

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    @spoonfulofthyme
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    What is the minimum threshold for people to have to wear a helmet?
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    Is it pace of movement? Does it depend on the way others around you move? Should sprinters be required to wear a helmet if speed and congestion are criteria?

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    Adam
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