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Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce: Hypocrisy is thy name

Parliamentary expenses show extraordinary waste from anti-waste campaigners Pauline Hanson and ...  
Australia needs AI skills — not just more data centres

Data-centre approvals should reflect demonstrable demand, energy availability and rapidly changing ...  
Trump’s man in Canberra brings God, markets and AUKUS

Trump’s new ambassador brings his evangelical faith, free-market creed and unwavering support ...  
Big Tech tightens its grip on Australia’s undersea cables

As Google and Meta expand their control of vital undersea infrastructure, Australia risks surre ...  
Why wealth matters and why Australia is a world leader

Australia’s high and relatively evenly distributed wealth underpins living standards and leaves ...  
Gaza war fuels hatred and division at home in Australia

The war in Gaza is fuelling hatred, division and violence far beyond the Middle East, with Aust ...  
Forest carbon scheme puts Great Koala National Park at risk

A Federal Government controversial forest carbon scheme is raising fears that conservation is ...  
Flailing newsrooms stymied by household luxury spending splurge

Multiple reports from the statutory authorities confirm living standards for all Australians are ...  
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 ...  
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 ...  
Australia's sanctions aren't stopping Israel's settler funding

Despite three rounds of sanctions, Israel's financial support for the settler movement Aust ...  
Big Tech: When 1984 meets The Godfather

The development of AI is inevitable, but when Nineteen Eighty-Four meets The Godfather in real ...  
Negative gearing reforms expose a new housing trap

Negative gearing reforms may boost new housing, but also lock up the established homes first home ...  
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 ...  
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 ...  
Ceuta crisis exposes Europe's dangerous dependence on Morocco

Spain's latest border crisis exposes Morocco's growing leverage over Europe and the unresolve ...  
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