Nobody wakes up to sudden authoritarianism. We relinquish ourselves to it by allowing our favoured government to get away with bending norms and rules. Over time, these bends become clean breaks.

On the pitch, Manchester City impressed everybody last season. Now let’s take a look behind the scenes – on the men who own the club.

In each incident, the technology appeared to be conducting mundane data collection and resorted to hacking techniques to get it, researchers said.

The reheated plans to scrap renewable schemes, boost fossil fuels and revive nuclear are transparently Trumpian

RBA governor says AI is ‘great white hope’ but its adoption is so far adding to inflation, rather than economic growth The Reserve Bank governor said AI could be a bubble and there was no evidence it is making the economy more efficient, as the Albanese government claims the technology will solve Australia’s economic malaise. Ahead of an expected interest rate rise next week, Michele Bullock also said the slump in house prices was deeper than others in Australia’s recent history. Continue reading...

‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will have a huge impact on communities across the world

Electric hatch drops to $19,990 drive-away, undercutting every petrol car in the country as Beijing warns its brands off price wars

The admission appeared in a newly unredacted filing in the landmark copyright infringement legal battle playing out between newspapers like the Orlando Sentinel and tech companies Microsoft and OpenAI...

Businesses can invest in electrification, low-carbon fuels and new production technologies. But they need confidence that enough renewable energy will be available.

New modelling shows Australia can still help limit climate overshoot, but only with much steeper emissions cuts, faster electrification and a genuine fossil fuel phase-out.

The plug-in solar panels can be used by renters and taken when they move house. Apartment dwellers can hang them on balconies – or just use a “suitcase battery” to store cheap daytime energy from the ...

The Environment Protection Agency says the move will save the country billions of dollars and reduce energy prices.

A floating garden of native plants in Victoria's east cuts a wastewater lagoon's emissions by about 30 per cent, with researchers now testing the approach on farm dams.

The owner of the Yallourn power station in Victoria and the Mt Piper plant in NSW says retiring coal sites are the perfect fit for new data centres.

We estimate the effect of the staggered adoption of carbon pricing policies across the globe between 1990 and 2017 on per capita $$\text{CO}_2$$ emissions from fossil fuel combustion. We use recent ec...

There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.

On Friday, Defence deputy secretary Celia Perkins began her evidence before a senate inquiry into asset sales by the department and Australian military with an embarrassing manoeuvre. 'In closing, I ...

We round up the winners at awards for achievements that ‘first make people laugh and then make them think’

Rising extreme weather costs fuel campaign ahead of new resilience strategy

Melbourne has officially recorded the warmest winter since records began in 1855.

Business used the collapse of unions to suppress wages and oligopoly power to increase prices. Expecting it now — using AI — to fix declining productivity, rising inequality, generational anger and po...