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Big Tech: When 1984 meets The Godfather

The development of AI is inevitable, but when Nineteen Eighty-Four meets The Godfather in real ...  
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 ...  
Most popular HR & HRIS systems in Australia for 2026 

Popularity gets thrown around loosely in HR software, so it pays to anchor it in something you can ...  
How smarter garden planning can help Australian homes adapt to climate change

The classic Australian backyard – big lawn, English hedge, maybe a rose bed – made sense when ...  
Forty-three years after Hawke, Australia needs a new economic debate

More than four decades after the Hawke-Keating Accord reshaped Australia's economy, it's time for ...  
Disclosure Day reveals that aliens aren't the real outsiders

On the surface, Steven Spielberg's latest can be taken as a sci-fi thriller with a message, but ...  
CARTOONS: The AUKUS caucus is decidedly raucous!

Meanwhile, in the U.S., Donald Trump's approval ratings appear to be tanking.  
Australia's sanctions aren't stopping Israel's settler funding

Despite three rounds of sanctions, Israel's financial support for the settler movement Aust ...  
Negative gearing reforms expose a new housing trap

Negative gearing reforms may boost new housing, but also lock up the established homes first home ...  
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EDITORIAL: Big Tech — When 1984 meets The Godfather

It's obvious that technology will evolve and that the development of artificial intelligence is i ...  
Ed Husic doesn’t give a shit; William Blake might

Ed Husic's blunt outburst says more about Labor's political paralysis than party discipline, th ...  
How the gig economy is reshaping where Australians work

The rise of app-based and contract work has changed more than how Australians earn. It is also ...  
U.S. arsenal stretched as Australia weighs alliance risks

America's dwindling missile stockpiles are forcing Australia to confront the strategic risks of e ...  
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 ...  
AI job applicant screening — the law still applies

We were promised the machine would make hiring fairer. Instead, it made the unfairness quieter.  
Sky infrastructure: Starlink, Australia and the dynamic global telecommunications order

No longer niche — one in five rural households that switched broadband providers in the past ...  
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