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Sure, travel hacking isn’t free, and it isn’t as easy as taking gifts from Qantas, but it’s more dignified.
Rowena Orr should be a no-brainer for the Victorian courts’ top job. But with an election looming, politicians are eyeing up the courts as a...
RBA governor Michele Bullock is putting Australia on notice that fighting persistent inflation is now the priority, even at the cost of employment.
For too long, the road to AI riches has been paved by pirated content. Forcing big tech to account for the costs on creators is necessary.
Firmus is heading towards the ASX in the biggest float in a generation, and yet a massive wave of M&A is quickly running down options for equities...
Look deeper than the personality clashes and hatreds, and the Coalition’s civil war was a fundamental contest between the progressive and...
A conventional rate cycle would be brutal for equities and private markets. Yet investors are behaving as though the first Fed hike in three years is...
The technology, which is being adopted rapidly by firms such as KPMG and EY, still needs humans in the loop.
Employees aren’t resisting AI because they lack the technical skills to use it – they’re resisting because they feel threatened by it.
The declaration often heard in focus groups echoes back: it is time to blow the place up. Goulburn seems to have decided that Pauline Hanson is the...
Polls have warned about this since support for One Nation began to rise. The government has spent almost its entire time in power hoping it would go...
The government should not just mechanically limit temporary migration, but retarget the program to bring in the most needed and most qualified...
A mass migration program in itself does nothing to lift productivity, which is the only variable that can improve living standards over the long run.
Chris Bowen’s strict renewable power mandates threaten to lock Australian start-ups out of the sector while deep-pocketed US firms dominate.
Those seeking refuge in Australia used to have 45 days to make a claim. The Rudd government changed the rules, leading to a deluge of applications and...
Climate-induced disasters know no borders. China hopes to enhance cooperation with Australia and others on disaster preparedness and climate response.
The warnings are clear, and so is the lesson: Australia must not wait any longer to regulate this all-powerful new technology.
If Australian companies can borrow more cheaply from Chinese lenders, there is a case for being realistic about the benefits – while managing the...
The stakes for the great power competition may be too high to slow down artificial intelligence development, strange as this may sound, given the...
Fuel price spikes and trade disruption from the wars in Iran and Ukraine are converging with extreme weather and overinvestment in AI to paint a bleak...
The current push for a digital duty of care could mean the difference between women staying in the public sphere or walking away.
Since the budget, the treasurer has been doing the bare minimum to provide a sound bite aimed at silencing legitimate criticism.
The Hollywood actress is under fire from female athletes for a vulgar sports betting campaign, with one describing it as a “kick in the face”.
As China expands its reach in the Pacific, the American-Australian alliance is moving from mateship to modernisation of our joint forces’ capacity.
Australia cannot pace the frontier on its own, but we can decide what artificial intelligence agents do inside our governments and companies.
Reducing migration is rapidly becoming a popular and powerful stance for progressive governments, rather than something they reactively treat as...
Any such agreement just requires getting half a dozen companies in the US and China – those with the resources to be pushing the frontier – to toe...
No region has been more affected by the energy supply disruptions caused by the Iran war, but Asia has been mostly absent from efforts to resolve it.
Successive governments in all three countries have concluded that the nuclear submarine technology partnership serves their national interests.
Copying Canada’s approach suggests the once-fringe party’s proposals aren’t necessarily extreme and that some recalibration of migration...
Cutting migration by 766,000 over three years would damage our economy, hit the budget and weaken our capacity to provide services for Australians.
I am baffled by the descent of some into a place where loyalty to the idea and values of ANZAC are “othered” by the loud, pernicious,...
Criticising Pauline Hanson risks generating more sympathy for her. But there can be no pandering to populism when fundamental legal and military...
CBA has privately calculated that if Macquarie Bank were to have the same capital framework as CBA, it would have to raise an additional $18 billion...
One Nation will again aim to set the agenda, this time with an immigration policy which, while hard line, is not unsophisticated.
Global technology giants have used consumer popularity to shield their activities from national governments. Their problem is that the public mood has...
Perhaps our biggest collective job is to rebuild optimism: that growth is good, growth is for everyone and growth is possible.
It’s the biggest shake-up in the market for more than 20 years, and if current trends persist, big banks are facing hefty declines in credit card...
A close look at One Nation’s new superannuation policy reveals how high earners could bounce cash through their fund to score thousands in tax...
For Australia, the irony is that we import the shock without the boom. We account for a sliver of AI capex, yet an open economy pays the world price...
Lack of budget discipline will compromise our ability to weather the uncertain economic implications of the global bond storm now under way.
Sensible conservatives have warned that unregulated platforms have too much power; the populist right treats restraint on that power as an assault on...
The former accountant is forensically assessing the structure of key divisions, including whether the group’s tech spend is being deployed...
The pandemic confirmed that the public health lobby should not be left to determine the policy trade-offs, incentives and costs of seeking to...
Artificial intelligence has become remarkably good at mathematics. These advances are part of a wider revolution pushing the boundaries of knowledge.
As the years go by, and I get older, I think more about the leadership I saw that day and the power of rebuilding.
With Donald Trump now engaged in another forever war and the rest of us screwed at the bowser, one can’t help thinking that Osama bin Laden got...
If the ubiquity of global sports encourages Australians youngsters to look overseas for professional sporting careers, the AFL and NRL may find...
Before voting on this Bill, members of the upper house ask whether it makes Victoria a more attractive place to do business, to invest time, and to...
Political elites have much to fear from the ‘little-people’ talking among themselves. It is perfectly understandable that the government would...