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There is an obscure opera about a woman who has eternal life (fellow opera nuts will recognise The Makropulos Case by Janacek). The plot involves...
Last week's depraved proposal to live stream the execution of Nidal Hasan, who was convicted of fatally shooting 13 unarmed US soldiers at the...
Let me be a little self-indulgent for a moment. At the end of the week, the paper I work for will celebrate its hundredth birthday so it's time...
Already, the deeper story of the next federal election is written - tattooed, as it were, on the distended abdomen of our body-politic. Subscribe now...
Politicians often complain that people have lost faith in institutions. Governments lament declining trust. Public servants scratch their heads over...
Australia, we need to talk about revenue. Thanks to the business lobby, "tax reform" in Australia has become synonymous with cutting taxes,...
Being just old enough to remember the furore over the execution of Ronald Ryan, the last person to be hanged in this country, in 1967 I have always...
What do you think of when you hear there is a local council election coming up? Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue...
For the White House, the midterm elections are always agony. They are always a referendum on the president. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login...
There is something badly missing from the increasingly heated debate about feral horses in Kosciuszko National Park. Subscribe now for unlimited...
When, way back, the opposition started talking about cutting immigration it would have thought, on the basis of polling, that it was tapping into a...
Filthy stinking rich. That's me. I'm loaded, baby. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading Sixty-million...
I have had very little to do with AI - at least not in a way I recognise. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading If...
Surcharges on paying with a card are very annoying. I don't quite know why but I feel as though I'm being ripped off when I see those extra...
Does it strike you as odd that the much-loved statement "All men are created equal" was written in the USA when they most certainly were...
May Jeffrey Archer rest in peace. His novels are not my cup of tea but they have their devotees. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup...
Is Anthony Albanese the worst prime minister in living memory? Certainly a few days ago someone called Steve Price thought so: "Albo is our worst...
One of Australia's leading pollsters and repositories of knowledge about what and how Australians are thinking gave us some very encouraging...
Since the Iran-US military conflict began earlier this year, disrupting global oil markets, Australia's electric vehicle (EV) market has...
Artificial intelligence has suffered the worst advance publicity campaign in the history of human invention. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login...
It is one of the more scathing critiques of the ALP even if it is six decades old. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue...
Too often our elected leaders talk of accountability and yet fail when put to the test. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to...
In the Palace Electric this weekend, a film with a boring title about a dead, straightlaced politician who once led a distant country is playing. The...
Two schools, same age range, same catchment area. At school A, the kids asked me questions of depth and perception. At the end of my workshop every...
The Albanese government must stop gaslighting Australians about the state of the economy, public finances and the dire implications for future...
It was a stay of execution. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading For more than two months the fate of the dominant...
Having a "Pre-COP" meeting in Fiji and Tuvalu is one of those initiatives that seemed a good idea at the time. Subscribe now for unlimited...
Ever had déjà vu, that unsettling feeling you've experienced something before? Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue...
As I've said many times before, I am so glad I am not a parent to young children right now. The stress would destroy me. Subscribe now for...
There's a woman I see most days whom I don't really like. I've never said a word to her and she hasn't said a word to me but...
The Albanese Labor government sometimes thinks it is playing four-dimensional chess - an economy that is somehow flat-yet-overheating, a mad man in...
An amazing, literally jaw-dropping, story appeared yesterday: the artificial intelligence company Anthropic has warned investors that advanced AI...
Which communities will be most impacted by this week's interest rate increase? Which communities will be most impacted by this summer's...
I had an economics teacher who once joked that he set the same exam questions year after year. It was not a problem, he said, "Because I just...
If you walk our streets and return home with clean shoes, you should spare a thought for Edward H. Lehner who has died at the age of 93. Subscribe now...
The headlines were impossible to miss: Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading "Rogue AI hacks Medicare"....
As a precocious young lad in the late 1960s I was mightily influenced by a book called Facing the Atomic Future by Sir Ernest William Titterton, a...
Opposing American lawlessness is a patriotic act with less downside than the government realises. Just ask voters. Subscribe now for unlimited access....
Australia is once again pushing for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council, alongside Finland and Mongolia, because "a safer world is...
Artificial intelligence is pouring into streaming music, forcing Spotify and the wider industry to decide what an artist actually is. But the best...
The revelation that an AI agent turned rogue and breached a firewall to get at Medicare statistics has strongly reinforced Anthony Albanese's...
America has been a particularly annoying notional ally and former friend over recent months. But what would be the point of complaining? President...
Poor bloke. He's lost so much it's almost too awful to contemplate. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading...
That Intergenerational Report scared the bejesus out of me. Here's what frightened me most. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup...
Bureaucrats are easy scapegoats for the ills that come with governments supplying thousands services. Sure they make some ridiculous and identifiable...
First of all, my humble thanks for the warm reception my first essay in this forum on Tuesday received from Echidna readers. Subscribe now for...
The many ponderous pundits, armchair analysts, talking heads and paid-up members of the commentariat who have spent the last few days critiquing the...
The proposal that Canada could become an associate member of the European Union is of historic moment and something which Australia should take heed....
I was born in Gunnedah, on the Liverpool Plains in north-central New South Wales - a small farming town with a population of about 10,000 people,...
Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading Having been born at the tail end of the baby boom, it was inevitable I would...
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