Why are white people expats and people of colour immigrants?
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    I have always been called an expat, not an immigrant. But shouldn’t that be the same thing?

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    @saidruth
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    Why does Australia have such a rigid two party political system?
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    In Australia we’ve got the dominant view that hung parliaments and large cross benches are ‘unworkable’ and ‘feral’. Why? In Europe hung parliaments are normal, and there are often many parties represented in the parliament.

    Would we benefit from more diverse parties and viewpoints in parliament?

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    @CaseyBriggs
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    How is a good collective decision made?
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    John Briggs
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    Are words more important than actions?
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    @oliviaejallen
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    Will there always be a European Union and a UN, or have these kind of collective endeavours lost their way under 21st century individualism?
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    @emsexton
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    What can western cultures learn from other cultures about the grieving process?
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    I currently have a family member who is dying from cancer… and I recently had a friend who died prematurely. Our rituals are so brief. Other cultures morn for days, weeks and sometimes months in ritualistic ways. Is it the threat to economic functioning or is it truly better to just get on with it?

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    Sophie
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    If love is the answer, what is the question… and who wants to know?
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    I really want to know!

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    Shamapeni
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    Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
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    Makes a better world if we heed this question.

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    Christine Day
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    How will we end chronic homelessness in Australia?
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    Matt
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    What are the problems that money solves? Are there other solutions?
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    Climate change and the arts are two prime examples of areas where seems difficult to apply this metric-based approach. I am curious about alternatives. What if everyone had a smartphone? Could we something radically different emerge?

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    Emmanuel
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    Why can’t the world ‘live in peace’?
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    How many times does this have to be asked?

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    Jenny
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    Appeals to compassion have had little impact on attitudes to inequality, both internationally and domestically. Is it time to use fear as a catalyst for change?
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    In the mid 1970’s I heard a bureaucrat [Bob Lansdowne] argue that social change came from shifts in compassion or compulsion-he was discussing our relationship with Indonesia and argued that compassion was in short supply. He was suggesting that huge disparities in income and wealth in an increasingly open and global environment were a recipe for instability and conflict–and that we should be afraid of the consequences of failing to address it. His concern is even more relevant today.

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    norman huon
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    Is identification with the ‘self’ the greatest cosmic joke there is?
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    @stevenadams52
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