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Lone voice pleads for help in unfolding catastrophe

Lone voice pleads for help in unfolding catastrophe

As Anthony Albanese and the world pretend to wring their hands over both the ‘inevitability’ of AI and the ‘struggle’ to set guardrails, the...

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Amy Remeikis

When rogue AI agent ‘scaled a fence’, it reinforced Albanese’s case for tough guardrails

When rogue AI agent ‘scaled a fence’, it reinforced Albanese’s case for tough guardrails

The revelation that an AI agent turned rogue and breached a firewall to get at Medicare statistics has strongly reinforced Anthony Albanese’s case...

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Michelle Grattan

What OpenAI hack reveals about our cyber security

What OpenAI hack reveals about our cyber security

An OpenAI artificial intelligence agent gained unauthorised access to an Australian government Medicare statistics portal in June, accessing both...

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Meena Jha

Govt is hyping AI, but its figures tell another story

Govt is hyping AI, but its figures tell another story

Both last year’s Productivity Commission’s figures and Treasury’s in the Intergenerational Report this week promise enough benefits from AI to...

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Bill Browne

Why Coalition, One Nation want to tear down super

Why Coalition, One Nation want to tear down super

The Liberals, Nationals and One Nation are at it again – promising to tear down good, enduring policies for the Australian people for the base...

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Craig Emerson

Time to say 'ick' to Apple’s latest smart watch

Time to say 'ick' to Apple’s latest smart watch

The latest Apple Watch models have some new features – they can listen to the sounds around you all day, transcribe snippets of conversation on...

23.09.2026 10

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Luke Heemsbergen

Women, power and the politics we choose

Women, power and the politics we choose

The rise of women within populist-right politics complicates assumptions about representation, showing that putting women in positions of power does...

23.09.2026 20

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Meg Schwarz

No.1 lesson from Intergenerational Report

No.1 lesson from Intergenerational Report

Every few years, Treasury performs a task that demographers do every day. It tries to imagine Australia decades into the future.  The 2026 version...

23.09.2026 20

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Simon Kuestenmacher

Could Australia follow Canada into a ‘Eurovision’?

Could Australia follow Canada into a ‘Eurovision’?

During his visit to the US, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese refused to rule out Australia joining the European Union, after US President Donald Trump...

22.09.2026 20

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Tim Harcourt

Digital duty of care: Good, bad and the ugly

Digital duty of care: Good, bad and the ugly

Social media and digital services have become central to our daily lives. From sharing experiences with friends and family, to shopping, ordering...

21.09.2026 20

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Kate Chaney

AI is becoming an ideal partner. Why that's an issue

AI is becoming an ideal partner. Why that's an issue

Artificial intelligence did not suddenly arrive in our love lives with ChatGPT. Dating apps have used algorithms and machine learning for years to...

21.09.2026 20

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Lisa Portolan

Taxable super matters to you, and your beneficiaries

Taxable super matters to you, and your beneficiaries

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...

21.09.2026 20

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Craig Sankey

Gagging and blacklisting: What's going on in the NT

Gagging and blacklisting: What's going on in the NT

Amid Pauline Hanson’s latest racism controversy, Australia’s most right-wing government announced yet another life-changing and devastating...

20.09.2026 20

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Amy Remeikis

Burke delivers overdue migration baby

Burke delivers overdue migration baby

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...

19.09.2026 20

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Michelle Grattan

More rate rises are coming, but wages won't follow

More rate rises are coming, but wages won't follow

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...

19.09.2026 20

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Greg Jericho

Thanks, Trump: Why Canada is cosying up to EU

Thanks, Trump: Why Canada is cosying up to EU

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...

18.09.2026 10

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Stewart Prest

Long-awaited migrant plan reflects needs and fears

Long-awaited migrant plan reflects needs and fears

The Albanese government will stop the entry of students’ family members, attack “visa hopping”, and drastically cut the numbers of those on...

18.09.2026 20

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Michelle Grattan

Super not the solution to Australia’s housing issues

Super not the solution to Australia’s housing issues

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...

17.09.2026 20

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Twane Wessels And Lucia Viegas

Migrant debate is just hot air looking for a problem

Migrant debate is just hot air looking for a problem

With all the talk about Australia’s migration “issue”, there is one question that has remained noticeably absent. What problem are we solving?...

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Amy Remeikis

Town's big 1888 move is key to lower energy bills

Australia’s electrification story started in 1888 in Tamworth, when that far-sighted regional community installed the nation’s first electric...

16.09.2026 30

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Luke Menzel

Australia has problems, but it could get much worse

While Australia has problems (housing, productivity, social cohesion, shrinking middle class, skills shortage), regular readers of this column will...

16.09.2026 30

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Simon Kuestenmacher

How can we tax the robots that replace humans?

Collecting an appropriate amount of revenue from multinational corporations is challenging enough for the Australian Taxation Office, but how will it...

15.09.2026 20

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Craig Emerson

One Nation would have more people leaving

One Nation on Monday released a radical policy proposing Australia net overseas migration (NOM) be negative over three years, as the country reduced...

15.09.2026 20

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Michelle Grattan

Algorithm off-switch might make us better voters

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...

14.09.2026 20

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Tom Mooney

The tide has turned against big tech’s harm

Since time immemorial, governments of all ideological persuasions have regulated harmful forms of speech, including laws addressing fraud, terrorism,...

14.09.2026 20

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Josh Bornstein

Libs' top culture warrior tied in free-speech knots

Swimming in political paddling pools means swallowing a lot of hypocrisy, just as a matter of course. For most commercial politicians, opinions tend...

13.09.2026 30

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Amy Remeikis

One Nation and super: Barnaby Joyce might be dumb, but he’s no idiot

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...

12.09.2026 20

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Greg Jericho

Hanson’s overreach on Hastie puts spine into Libs

Pauline Hanson declared in a recent News24 (formerly Sky News) documentary: “I don’t back down”. This week Hanson and her party followed...

12.09.2026 20

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Michelle Grattan

Profits of doom: Gas boss stretches the truth

The “Gish gallop” debating technique involves making so many false or misleading claims in quick succession to sneak away without proper...

11.09.2026 10

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Tim Baxter

Failure to stop 9/11 was not the biggest error

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)...

11.09.2026 30

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Greg Barton

Economy not the only reason for One Nation's rise

Labor is no doubt dreading the likelihood of further interest rate rises, despite Treasurer Jim Chalmers talking up the economy. When One Nation...

11.09.2026 20

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Carol Johnson

Sovereignty has become an issue-by-issue choice

Sovereignty is one of those words that gets thrown around when politically expedient, but without the gravity it actually deserves. It’s basic...

10.09.2026 30

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Amy Remeikis

'Censorship' and social media algorithms explained

The headline feature of the federal government’s exposure draft of its long-promised digital duty of care is an “off switch”. Social media...

10.09.2026 30

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Rob Nicholls

Migration reform badly needed, but it's no answer

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...

09.09.2026 40

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Simon Kuestenmacher

One Nation is a symptom. ALP must treat the cause

One Nation’s rise reflects deeper economic insecurity, political alienation and distrust in institutions. Defeating it requires more than...

09.09.2026 20

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Kim Carr

Record numbers of Aussies working multiple jobs

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...

08.09.2026 30

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Greg Jericho

Coalition, One Nation in reckless race to the bottom

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...

08.09.2026 30

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Craig Emerson

Super can help with cost of living before we retire

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...

07.09.2026 30

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Craig Sankey

Young Aussies go backwards despite following rules

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...

06.09.2026 40

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Amy Remeikis

Govt’s talk outpaces walk on one economic measure

Treasurer Jim Chalmers would have sighed with relief at this week’s economic growth figures. Despite some preview talk of possible stagnation, we...

05.09.2026 30

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Michelle Grattan

RBA's view of inflation misses our lived experience

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...

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Ben Spies-Butcher

Smart glasses upend the idea of choice and privacy

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...

04.09.2026 30

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James Birt

Why unhappy voters are shifting right, not left

The far right does not emerge outside mainstream political culture. Its nationalism, authoritarianism and populism draw on ideas with deep roots in...

04.09.2026 30

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Ibolya Losoncz

Why Greens aren't getting voters lost to Labor

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...

03.09.2026 30

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Richard Denniss

'Chaos is the point': Labor's giant One Nation error

Anthony Albanese’s recent response to China at the Pacific Island Forum revealed two things. One, he knows how to screw nice, diplomatically, when...

03.09.2026 40

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Amy Remeikis

Donald Trump is nuts, and he's making us nutty too

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...

02.09.2026 30

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Robert Reich

Birth differences for Oz-born, migrant mums

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...

02.09.2026 30

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Simon Kuestenmacher

Why Nick Kyrgios might really know what he's doing

Nick Kyrgios, Rafael Nadal and Kylie Minogue took very different paths to success. Their lives raise a deeper question about ambition, sacrifice and...

01.09.2026 20

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Adrian Rosenfeldt

After WA win, how will One Nation do in the east?

Neither Labor nor the Liberals needed the bruising Secret Harbour byelection to tell them One Nation had become a major player. But Saturday’s...

01.09.2026 30

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Michelle Grattan

Banks claw back credit card rewards

Banks are clawing back rewards as new credit card fee rules threaten their profits, raising bigger questions about competition, cash and who...

31.08.2026 30

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Crispin Hull