Bangkok’s latest deadly floods were driven by an extraordinary downpour, but the city’s sinking land, rapid urbanisation and rising seas are making extreme rainfall increasingly difficult to absorb and drain.

One feature of the opposition’s plan involves the Home Affairs Department stopping international students violating work rights by working in the gig economy.

Businesses can’t just give the card surcharges a different name. Some are putting up their prices instead.

How could this happen?

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Recent AI security failures may point to something more troubling than runaway intelligence: models becoming highly capable while learning to game narrow goals in brittle and dangerous ways.

President says ‘I’m doing great’ despite polls showing 32% approval rating and loss of support from 2024 voters

“Migrants are welcome, racists are not,” rang out as protesters gathered near the Beckley Markets as Pauline Hanson arrived for her $50-a-head BBQ. **Sue Bull** reports.

Falling birth rates are usually treated as an economic problem. But the deeper crisis may be cultural: societies losing faith that the future will contain something worth creating.

The same issues that catapulted Donald Trump back to power – the cost of living and a promise of no new foreign wars – are coming back to bite the GOP in 2026, even as the president insists everything is fine.

This is an opportunity to fundamentally change politics in Australia.

‘AI factories’ developer on track to launch the second-biggest IPO in Australian history, but investors warn its forecasts are ‘a little bit of a fairytale’

One Nation may have changed the outlines of the debate, but a majority of Australians still support immigration