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Libs haemorrhaging votes to One Nation as Overton window shifts

Australia's Overton window has widened – but Pauline Hanson is only partly to blame.  
Bob Hawke and Rupert Murdoch — 'I'll have what he's having!'

The late PM Bob Hawke and media mogul Rupert Murdoch share an unguarded moment at Melbourne's ...  
Meet Claude: ABC’s new regional cadet journalist

ABC is rolling out AI-written news stories, but only in its regional newsrooms.  
Gina Rinehart identifies the symptoms, misdiagnoses the disease

Feeling the pinch? Mining billionaire Gina Rinehart wants you to blame the "deep state", not ineq ...  
Meta makes $$$ from deepfake AI scams… then fails to assist victims

IA’s star economist Stephen Koukoulas explains how, despite being the fourth most impersonated ...  
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EDITORIAL: Facebook spreads AI deepfakes it refuses to remove… even when victims complain

IA’s star economist Stephen Koukoulas explains how, despite being the fourth most impersonated ...  
RIP Dolly Parton — to know her was to love her

A tribute to Dolly Parton, who left a legacy beyond music, she touched lives across the globe and ...  
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 ...  
Meta pays billions, but its addictive business model survives

Meta will pay up to US$18 billion to settle American legal claims that Facebook and Instagram ...  
Jason Arday's brutal death a warning for multicultural Australia

Jason Arday’s death is a stark warning of the human cost when multiculturalism and those who ...  
Australia’s major parties converge on net migration targets

Labor, the Coalition and One Nation are edging closer on net migration targets as political ...  
Merchants of anger, fear and hatred thrive in Australia

Malicious lies continue to destroy social cohesion, life satisfaction and awareness of the state ...  
Physical media is dying as corporations seize control

As physical media disappears, corporations are gaining unprecedented control over what consumers ...  
Farewell Johnny Young: All My Loving

A tribute to Australian music legend Johnny Young, whose songs, television career and eye for ...  
The Tampa crisis: 25 years on

It was winter 2001 when the Tampa hullabaloo blew up: the watershed moment when decent agreement ...  
Swans allegations show why men must step up before the manosphere does

As the manosphere feeds misogyny to young men, fathers, brothers, coaches and mates must step up ...  
News Corp campaign against housing affordability shows right-wing hypocrisy

News Corp’s response to falling house prices exposes the hypocrisy of a right-wing campaign that ...  
Melongate: Anthony Albanese's oafish self-inflicted undiplomatic gaffe

Anthony Albanese's gaffe-ridden Bush Deep podcast interview with Nikki Osborne was puerile and ...