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U.S. midterms hinge on healthcare, housing and energy

Healthcare, housing and energy will be major issues in the U.S. midterm elections. How Australia ...  
Trump’s lies should be the headline

Mainstream media has normalised Donald Trump’s lies, allowing deceit to become a powerful ...  
AI warfare accelerating beyond human control

AI is accelerating warfare and raising the risk of conflict spiralling beyond human control.  
Coalition boxed in by working holiday visa policy

The Coalition’s opposition to tighter working holiday visa rules is at odds with its lower ...  
Democracy must be measured by more than elections

China, India, the United States and Australia reveal why democracy must be judged not only by ...  
Australia's craven newsrooms suffer worst week in a very bad year

The mainstream media continue to deny the positives, amplify the negatives and fabricate falseh ...  
Monty Python homage: What have migrants ever done for us?

Mick & his mates pay homage to Monty Python while debating the benefits of immigration.  
One Nation's jittery demagoguery leads immigration policy

Bidding wars and nonsense targets are the focus of immigration policy in Canberra, with the ...  
Australia’s efficiency obsession has created a culture of distrust

Australia’s obsession with metrics, audits and managerial efficiency has created a culture of ...  
Oligarchs, AI and fascism: The perfect storm against democracy

As Australia finally joins the voices calling for sanity on AI and the Ku Klux Klan say they find ...  
Victoria’s koala crisis hidden behind questionable numbers

A long-awaited report on Victoria’s koalas has exposed alarming health problems and raised ...  
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EDITORIAL: Oligarchs, AI and fascism: The perfect storm against democracy

As Australia finally joins the voices calling for sanity on AI and the Ku Klux Klan say they find ...  
Democracy demands more than a vote

Democracy demands more than elections, requiring both the power to challenge governments and the ...  
Fuel crisis exposes Australia’s need for greater self-reliance

Global fuel disruptions are exposing Australia’s vulnerabilities and strengthening the case for ...  
Tom Tate and the battle over the Gold Coast’s public land

Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate is just the symptom of a much larger malaise in the heart of civil ...  
Killer robots turn technological utopia into deadly dystopia

A century-old science-fiction play foresaw the promise of AI becoming an existential threat to ...  
Press freedom under attack from algorithms and cruel clickbait questions

Press freedom is under attack from algorithms and journalists trying to wound rather than infor ...  
Triple Zero: Band-Aid solutions won't deliver structural reform

Commonwealth considering establishing statutory authority to take responsibility for the Emergency ...  
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