Labor’s furtive attempt to fix up years of unlawful tax collection can only diminish public trust. So why is the opposition ...

Will AI become conscious? Or, at least, the version that has appeared in news headlines this year. Any minute now, we are ...

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The prime minister forcing the treasurer to backdown on proposed superannuation changes shows this government’s direction – ...

2025: With Australia’s political institutions being key to its prosperity, do we require a form of conservative radicalism to preserve them? When I proposed the title for this talk to the ABC, I was ...

John Anderson is a sixth-generation farmer and grazier from New South Wales, who spent 19 years in the Australian parliament including six years as deputy prime minister.

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DNA studies have provided the identity of the Somerton Man, but can’t explain why our fascination with his fate endures At last, the identity of Somerton Man, found dead on an Adelaide beach 73 years ...

Both Nettle and Brereton are entitled to judicial pensions – Nettle of about $366,000 a year and Brereton about $298,500. It is not clear whether they are receiving those on top of what they are being ...

Does a New Zealand start-up hoping to revolutionise the car-parts supply chain demonstrate how best to use AI? The story of New Zealand AI-based start-up Partly ticks a lot of the usual tech start-up ...

Talking to Karen Hao about writing Empire of AI underscores the difference between human authorship and AI’s text generation Sometimes it’s not the questions you ask, it’s the fact that you are there ...