If the entire world had just one universal currency and there was a person on each of the five notes, who should they be?
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    There is so much to consider – finding appropriate continental/ethnic/gender balance, avoiding anyone who may upset a particular group…… Can anyone come up with even two people to agree upon?

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    Sam
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    Why do we want to be happy?
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    Just wondering.

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    Charlie McMillan Summons
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    Why after the fifteenth century philosophers de bunked religion and with all the trouble in the world to-day why does the establishment promote it
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    It matters to me because of all the killing that has been done in the name of religion

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    Gerry
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    If a Journalist enters the woods, and doesn’t make a brand for themselves, do they still make a sound?
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    I’m a journalism student, and I’m sick of being asked to respond to the notion of a ‘brand’. I even had Fairfax present a curriculum as part of my course which spent a week on “brand building”. I find this insufferable, and I’d like to see how other current practitioners and other students feel about this notion. Obviously, change is inevitable, but to what extent are journalists performers, too?

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    @alnwdn
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    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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    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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    Why is it that Australians get a hefty fine if they don’t vote for elections but then leaders have been chosen over night without their votes? Should Australia adopt the European model like that of England where voting isn’t compulsory?
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    Sandra Di Francesco
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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 are we so afraid of the soul?
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    I don’t believe it is considered enough. I believe the soul is at the core of what makes us beings, but we seem to shy away from treating our souls with tenderness and significance.

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    Kirsty Murphy
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    What makes you a good parent?
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    New parent myself – but more importantly in light of the Syrian refugees placing their children in scary waters in the hope of providing their children a better life in Europe.

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    Tammy Iliou
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    Fundamentally are our world governments purely self-interested and corrupt?
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    ADi
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    Is democracy in danger of becoming irrelevant?
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    People are increasingly concerned that it does not matter who you vote for, it often does not change anything. There is a crisis of satisfactory leadership throughout the world, where vested interests control things behind the scenes rather than governments, eg. Wolfgang Scheuble: ‘Elections change nothing.’

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    Dr George Stabelos
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    When further growth becomes impossible on our planet, what will replace growth as the great economic driver?
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    The huge increase in standard of living for two centuries has been driven, and is measured by, economic growth. To continue to progress without destroying the planet we need a replacement or significant morphing of growth.

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    @geeforce77
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