Australia
Meet Claude: ABC’s new regional cadet journalist

ABC is rolling out AI-written news stories, but only in its regional newsrooms.  
Four-year federal terms: a referendum that is positive, logical and winnable

A Referendum on four-year terms is likely to succeed and should benefit Australian politics ...  
Labor's transformation on net overseas migration

The Albanese Government's plan reassures the public and requires the Minister to proactively repo ...  
A Muslim vision of what Australia might be by 2050

When our children and grandchildren look around Australia in 2050, I hope they will not ask ...  
Mobile roaming must be part of Australia’s communications resilience

Australia needs a layered communications system in which different technologies and providers can ...  
Far-Right secretive political group Advance appears at election inquiry

Far-Right Advance "stacked" with Liberal Party operatives and backed by billionaires.  
Barnaby Joyce discovers the political power of pinkwashing

Sexuality does not confer political virtue any more than ethnicity or faith does.  
The Tampa crisis: 25 years on

It was winter 2001 when the Tampa hullabaloo blew up: the watershed moment when decent agreement ...  
NBN’s success vindicates original vision — but the job's not done

NBN Co's FY26 results demonstrate the transition from copper to fibre is producing the bene ...  
JEFF MCMULLEN: Living dangerously — the life of a dingo

NSW Parliament will begin hearings on 8 September 2026 on the management of dingoes in national ...  
Jillian Segal's 'Understanding Antisemitism in Australia': A lesson in propaganda

Jillian Segal's 'Understanding Antisemitism in Australia' report is an embarrassment, writes Dr ...  
Melongate: Anthony Albanese's oafish self-inflicted undiplomatic gaffe

Anthony Albanese's gaffe-ridden Bush Deep podcast interview with Nikki Osborne was puerile and ...  
Business pushes trickle-down myth then blames government for its inevitable failure

Historic economic growth and productivity gains have largely failed to translate into broadly ...  
Harry Bridges: The Australian unionist who defied the U.S. Government

Harry Bridges’ story should not be forgotten on American shores, but it should also be known on ...  
AI near misses: The space between potential and catastrophe

The goal is enough AI near-miss transparency to show what went wrong, who noticed, who acted and ...  
Obscene wealth: Money and political power accumulated by a minuscule few

The average billionaire generates around one million times more carbon emissions than the average ...  
Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce: Hypocrisy is thy name

Parliamentary expenses show extraordinary waste from anti-waste campaigners Pauline Hanson and ...  
Climate change rebellion, anyone? Aussie Gen Z says...Meh!

Why are the young often quiescent when their very lives and future livelihoods are in real dan ...  

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