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As Anthony Albanese and the world pretend to wring their hands over both the ‘inevitability’ of AI and the ‘struggle’ to set guardrails, the...
The revelation that an AI agent turned rogue and breached a firewall to get at Medicare statistics has strongly reinforced Anthony Albanese’s case...
An OpenAI artificial intelligence agent gained unauthorised access to an Australian government Medicare statistics portal in June, accessing both...
Both last year’s Productivity Commission’s figures and Treasury’s in the Intergenerational Report this week promise enough benefits from AI to...
The Liberals, Nationals and One Nation are at it again – promising to tear down good, enduring policies for the Australian people for the base...
The latest Apple Watch models have some new features – they can listen to the sounds around you all day, transcribe snippets of conversation on...
The rise of women within populist-right politics complicates assumptions about representation, showing that putting women in positions of power does...
Every few years, Treasury performs a task that demographers do every day. It tries to imagine Australia decades into the future. The 2026 version...
During his visit to the US, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese refused to rule out Australia joining the European Union, after US President Donald Trump...
Social media and digital services have become central to our daily lives. From sharing experiences with friends and family, to shopping, ordering...
Artificial intelligence did not suddenly arrive in our love lives with ChatGPT. Dating apps have used algorithms and machine learning for years to...
Hi Craig, If my super fund with a 60 per cent taxable component is converted totally into pension mode, will this pension fund also have 60 per cent...
Amid Pauline Hanson’s latest racism controversy, Australia’s most right-wing government announced yet another life-changing and devastating...
Tony Burke was late to the National Press Club to announce the government’s migration policy on Thursday. Six weeks late, to be precise. After the...
In their appearance before the House economics committee on Friday, the executive of the Reserve Bank made it quite clear that we can expect more...
Can a country change continents? Canada seems set to try. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced an intention to seek some novel form of...
The Albanese government will stop the entry of students’ family members, attack “visa hopping”, and drastically cut the numbers of those on...
Superannuation as a solution to the housing crisis risks trying to fix one problem by making another worse. The proposal from One Nation to allow...
With all the talk about Australia’s migration “issue”, there is one question that has remained noticeably absent. What problem are we solving?...
Australia’s electrification story started in 1888 in Tamworth, when that far-sighted regional community installed the nation’s first electric...
While Australia has problems (housing, productivity, social cohesion, shrinking middle class, skills shortage), regular readers of this column will...
Collecting an appropriate amount of revenue from multinational corporations is challenging enough for the Australian Taxation Office, but how will it...
One Nation on Monday released a radical policy proposing Australia net overseas migration (NOM) be negative over three years, as the country reduced...
There has rightly been a lot of talk this week about what Australia’s teenagers see and do online. Bullying, body image issues, and violence against...
Since time immemorial, governments of all ideological persuasions have regulated harmful forms of speech, including laws addressing fraud, terrorism,...
Swimming in political paddling pools means swallowing a lot of hypocrisy, just as a matter of course. For most commercial politicians, opinions tend...
In a heated interview on ABC’s 7.30 this week, One Nation’s would-be treasurer Barnaby Joyce was unable to explain how much superannuation...
Pauline Hanson declared in a recent News24 (formerly Sky News) documentary: “I don’t back down”. This week Hanson and her party followed...
The “Gish gallop” debating technique involves making so many false or misleading claims in quick succession to sneak away without proper...
The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were unlike anything the world had seen before. For America, and the watching world, September 11 (or 9/11)...
Labor is no doubt dreading the likelihood of further interest rate rises, despite Treasurer Jim Chalmers talking up the economy. When One Nation...
Sovereignty is one of those words that gets thrown around when politically expedient, but without the gravity it actually deserves. It’s basic...
The headline feature of the federal government’s exposure draft of its long-promised digital duty of care is an “off switch”. Social media...
Migration debates have a nasty habit of forcing us into two silly camps. Apparently you either need to defend the migration system exactly as it is or...
One Nation’s rise reflects deeper economic insecurity, political alienation and distrust in institutions. Defeating it requires more than...
In a sign of the brutal impact of the Reserve Bank’s three interest rate rises, more than a million Australians worked multiple jobs in the June...
Last week, One Nation announced it would cut tobacco excise by 75 per cent. Not to be outdone, Opposition Leader Angus announced that the Coalition...
I am struggling financially; with mortgage and bills, there’s not much left after paying them to live for a fortnight. I am a 61-year-old single...
If you were born after 1990 or so, you grew up during one of Australia’s great eras of prosperity. And you were raised to believe that if you...
Treasurer Jim Chalmers would have sighed with relief at this week’s economic growth figures. Despite some preview talk of possible stagnation, we...
As the Reserve Bank of Australia contemplates yet another rate rise, it is worth considering how we ended up with an economic system that means a war...
When it comes to protecting personal privacy, opting out is no longer an option. Smart glasses have upended the idea that consumers still have a...
The far right does not emerge outside mainstream political culture. Its nationalism, authoritarianism and populism draw on ideas with deep roots in...
One Nation’s historic victory in the once safe Labor seat of Secret Harbour was of no more surprise than its recent defeat of the Liberals in the...
Anthony Albanese’s recent response to China at the Pacific Island Forum revealed two things. One, he knows how to screw nice, diplomatically, when...
Is US President Donald Trump insane? Are those who believe Trump’s artificially fabricated world insane? Are they making the rest of us insane? I...
The 2026 census was a question short – “how many babies has each woman ever given birth to?”. In the dry language of the Australian Bureau of...
Nick Kyrgios, Rafael Nadal and Kylie Minogue took very different paths to success. Their lives raise a deeper question about ambition, sacrifice and...
Neither Labor nor the Liberals needed the bruising Secret Harbour byelection to tell them One Nation had become a major player. But Saturday’s...
Banks are clawing back rewards as new credit card fee rules threaten their profits, raising bigger questions about competition, cash and who...