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So Trump wants Greenland? Don’t laugh, America’s been here before

Jan 9, 2025 | smh.com.au | Stuart Rollo

International relations researcher January 9, 2025 — 6.00pm, register or subscribe to save articles for later. Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Donald Trump’s inflammatory remarks about his incoming administration’s desire to acquire Greenland “for national security purposes” – whether as a purchase or by force – have been met with a chorus of stern responses from European leaders, including German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot.
Regional doctors staffing platform Go Locum doses up on $350,000 Seed raise

Jul 19, 2024 | startupdaily.net | Simon Thomsen |James Der Derian |Stuart Rollo |Sarah Nolet

Medical staffing platform Go Locum, which connects doctors with temporary roles in regional and remote areas, has raised $350,000 in Seed funding from Darwin VC Paspalis. This round will support the software startup’s international expansion plans and the launch of an app to streamline locum (fill-in doctor) recruitment in Australia. Go Locum was founded by Dr Joshua Case and Phoebe Bardsley in 2022, and has since built a community of more than 2,500 health professionals on social media.
Alongside the race to develop quantum, we need to think about the risks

Jul 19, 2024 | startupdaily.net | James Der Derian |Stuart Rollo |Simon Thomsen |Sarah Nolet

The United Nations has proclaimed 2025 as the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology. The goal is to recognise “the importance of quantum science and the need for wider awareness of its past and future impact”. But why quantum? Why now? Quantum science is both complex and weird. It’s not easy to wrap your head around concepts such as entanglement, light existing as both a wave and a particle, or a cat in a box that is both alive and dead (until observed).
Militarised Brisbane: weapons manufacturers, university partnerships and grass-roots activism

Mar 24, 2024 | overland.org.au | Miriam Deprez |Stuart Rollo |Giovanni Tiso

At about 9 am on Monday 8th January, in an industrial outer suburb of Brisbane, roughly thirty activists took over the Ferra Engineering manufacturing floor. Banners read “Ferra Spreads Terror” and “Stop Arming Israel” as the protesters shut down, albeit temporarily, the Ferra production line. The suburb of Tingalpa seems a long way from the Middle East, but has found itself as part of the global supply chain for lethal weapons manufacturing.
Another Great War? Lest we forget what happens when diplomacy fails

Nov 10, 2023 | smh.com.au | Stuart Rollo

Opinion International relations researcher Save Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Got it As Australians pause to reflect on the service and sacrifice of the fallen, remembrance of the origins and consequences of the First World War is more important than ever.
Segregation? No. For our family, David's special school met all his needs

Oct 3, 2023 | smh.com.au | Stuart Rollo

Karonga (and the many special schools like it around the country) provides high-quality individualised programs for its students, tailored to meet their specific needs in regard to learning, behavioural and medical support, therapy and community-based programs.
The Perils of Tech-Utopian Thinking

Mar 17, 2023 | orfonline.org | Stuart Rollo

IntroductionDiscussions on the benefits and harms of technological innovation are often limited to accounts of the merits and disadvantages of particular technologies insofar as they make human life more or less easy, efficient, comfortable, and safe. Less common are discussions that investigate the differences between exactly who benefits, and who pays the costs, of the rollout of any given technological innovation.
Technopoly And Its Discontents - Analysis - Eurasia Review

Mar 6, 2023 | techtelegraph.co.uk | Stuart Rollo

By Stuart RolloDiscussions on the benefits and harms of technological innovation are often limited to accounts of the merits and disadvantages of particular technologies insofar as they make human life more or less easy, efficient, comfortable, and safe. Less common are discussions that investigate the differences between exactly who benefits, and who pays the costs, of the rollout of any given technological innovation.
Technopoly and its Discontents

Mar 4, 2023 | orfonline.org | Stuart Rollo

This article is a chapter in the journal — Raisina Files 2023. Discussions on the benefits and harms of technological innovation are often limited to accounts of the merits and disadvantages of particular technologies insofar as they make human life more or less easy, efficient, comfortable, and safe. Less common are discussions that investigate the differences between exactly who benefits, and who pays the costs, of the rollout of any given technological innovation.