Australia is at a tipping point. Choosing the brave route – taxing gas and raising revenue – would also, in this case, be the right one.

Climate Council Media Release  The NSW Independent Planning Commission (IPC) has approved the Hunter Valley Operations Continuation Project (HVO), the largest coal mine expansion ever proposed in New ...

Former deputy prime minister Kim Beazley has issued a warning that is difficult to ignore. Australia, he says, risks becoming an “outsider” if One Nation enters government. Beazley is hardly an unfami...

UNSW Sydney Media Release  UNSW academics have cracked a problem in proportional representation posed by leading researchers – the latest chapter in a mathematical debate more than 200 years old. In p...

Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock has refused to rule out a fifth interest rate rise when the board meets again in just over a month.

The Reserve Bank has lifted the official cash rate for the fourth time this year, taking interest rates to a 15-year high.

The immigration debate obscures the real economic pressures behind the voter drift away from the major parties.

The politics of discontent BBC news reports that an 87-year-old woman was evicted from her unit in Madrid for not being able to pay her rent. She had lived in that home for almost 70 [...]

In every country that’s slid into strongman rule over the past half-century, the first step was capture of media by friends of the regime.

As the world wrings it's hands over AI, which it seems to be enabling, a lone voice called for help fighting a true global catastrophe.

A widely circulating vintage-style photo of Pauline Hanson in a busy fish and chip shop in the late 1980s is actually an AI fake.

The Speech On 25 September 2026, Anthony Albanese addressed the United Nations General Assembly. He named climate change, artificial intelligence, and the “breakdown of international rules” as the def...

It’s become the disease of affluence: How do wealthy countries limit, restrict or totally bar migrants (whether they arrive through regular channels or otherwise) who are seen as ills to be shunned ra...

There are occasions in international politics when a photograph says rather more than the people in it probably intended. The United Nations General Assembly is one of those occasions. World leaders g...

RE-Alliance Media Release  RE-Alliance response to the Coalition’s proposed energy bill Australians want affordable, reliable power and cleaner energy. Delivering all three requires steady, responsibl...

There are many faces to Donald Trump, which is not particularly reassuring for world leaders who find themselves sitting across the negotiating table from him. Which President Trump will they be dealing with? The toddler? [...]

From a dangerous new bioweapon to total societal breakdown, is a ‘superintelligent’ AI capable of wiping out humanity?

With Heather Lofthouse and yours truly, Robert Reich

Continued from What Went Wrong? (Part 5) Part 6: Have We Moved Forward? There was a time when I genuinely believed we were moving forward. I remember the election of Barack Obama in 2008 and the [...]

Amid Hanson’s latest controversy, Australia’s most right-wing government announced yet another devastating decision for Indigenous people.

Has everybody gone nuts? Don’t they notice that AI is not actually making any money? The Wall Street Journal explains – Spending on AI Is at Epic Levels. Will It Ever Pay Off? Tech companies pour hund...

The Desert and the Budget Victory – Reallocation, Control, and the Erosion of Scrutiny in the Albanese Government “The question is not whether the Albanese government will change. It will not. The question is whether [...]

Countries have a duty to see that migrants who leave their birthplace for richer countries do so under conditions that make sense. If Australia’s public health services actively recruit nurses from ot...

Labors long-awaited migration policy will be wedged between those who think it doesn't go far enough and those who believe it's draconian.

The RBA made it quite clear we can expect more interest rate rises – but made little suggestion real wages will improve any time soon.

Continued from What Went Wrong? (Part 4) Part 5 – The Vacuum At the end of Part 4, I suggested that we had reached the next stage of this story. When people lose faith in [...]

Recent election results in Germany have seen the AfD, a right wing, neo-Nazi party achieve gains in regional elections. Likewise in Sweden and Norway, The Netherlands, Britain, France and Italy, right...

It’s bleak. “They are racing straight toward self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives.” So stated researcher Jacob Coxon on those artificial intelligence firms so keen on imposing ...

Immigration Minister Tony Burke has finally unveiled a plan to "soften" the number of new migrants, including a crackdown on "visa hoppers".

Is AI going rogue the worst that could happen? Maybe not …

Continued from What Went Wrong? (Part 3) Part 4 – The Present At the beginning of this series, I asked a simple question: What went wrong? I began with the optimism I felt when Barack [...]

Continued from What Went Wrong? (Part 2) Part 3 – The Reset Button By the time Donald Trump left the White House in January 2021, Americans were exhausted. Exhausted by the anger, exhausted by the [.....

It’s complicated and everyone is having a lot of feelings

Continued from What Went Wrong? Part 2 – When Institutions Became the Enemy At the end of Part 1, I was left with a question that was considerably more disturbing than the one with which [...]

Yet another example of a right-wing-libertarian-anti-government-anti-welfare fuckwit not having the self awareness to realise that they themselves are ACTUALLY FUNDED BY TAXPAYERS.

I don't believe AI will kill all or most humans, which seems to put me in a small group. I have a theory, and I'll try to write it down when I can. In summary: billions of years of evolution are not ...

With Heather Lofthouse, W. Kamau Bell, and Michael Lahanas Calderón

There was a time when I genuinely believed things were getting better. I remember the election of Barack Obama in the United States. After the years of George W. Bush, the wars, the divisions and [......

Federal environment department tells industry representatives the government does not want to ‘exacerbate cost of living pressures’

Officers found one 14-year-old’s ebike was capable of hitting 90km/h. Owners have two weeks to appeal the seizure before the bikes will be crushed

What sounds like the overwrought penultimate episode in a sci-fi series about AI doom is now our reality

The question is when, if, and how Congress will stop him

Alarming warnings from industry insiders increase pressure for curbs on artificial superintelligence

Sovereignty should be on the minds of most Australians, but it’s not – mostly because politicians don’t want it there.