The comment floored me.

Nidal Hasan, army psychiatrist who killed 13 people, will be executed by firing squad on 3 December

Angus Taylor acknowledges that some aged care workers would be affected by the Coalition's proposed migration changes as business and education groups warn of wider economic damage.

Progressive voters and supporters of incumbent president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva left reeling after far-right surge

Candidate Mark Nicholson said former premiers Daniel Andrews and Jacinta Allan would be ‘in prison by Christmas’ if One Nation won the election

President using rare power to revoke expenditure with bipartisan approval to aid immigrant services

A feature called AI Overviews has been a profound change, and the browsing habits of billions of people are shifting

Trump administration expresses ‘serious concerns’ that forcing firms to allow algorithm optout would infringe Americans’ free speech

New rules also include a ban near schools and childcare centres and require them to source their own renewable energy

Potholed roads are ‘devastating political advertising’ for the Victorian government – but Ben Carroll has made them the focus of his campaign

The Australia Institute has done something I wish political parties would do more often themselves. It has taken the Victorian Liberals’ fiscal pitch, opened the spreadsheet, and asked a very boring ...

Thanks to a little-known feature in Instagram, I try to travel back to 2012 – before everything on the internet was an ad

The prime minister has predicted blowback to the scheme, which will affect social media, search engines and AI chatbots

Being able to touch and examine garments in person can be a vital source of inspiration for designers. Now a collection which does just that has relocated from Europe to Melbourne

In the long term Chalmers, O’Neil and Albanese will want to own any improvement in intergenerational equity, so maybe it’s better to start now

Inside my mantra that ‘culture is how people do things on repeat’ sits a secret.

It’s bad for your brain and worse for democracy.

Biologists say cargo ships stranded in Gulf may carry highly potent invasive species around the world as trade resumes

Commonwealth and Western Australia to fund study into construction of large-scale petrol refinery as buffer against fuel vulnerability

‘We already have more than 1,000 recommendations. The knowledge gap isn’t there. There’s an implementation gap,’ policy expert says

Enter the 2026 Smart50 Awards — celebrating Australia's 50 fastest-growing SMEs. Category awards, Smart50 list and a gala event in Melbourne.

President Milei’s plans to turn my country into an anarchic tech paradise makes him just the latest character in the nation’s long history of chancers and dictators, writes Uki Goñi

PM to declare Australia the first country worldwide to bring economic, social, security and environmental issues from AI under single office in major speech

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During the parade for newly minted United States NBA champions, the New York Knicks, Mayor Mamdani didn’t simply say, ‘Well done, boys.’ He turned his speech into a rally and referendum on the spirit ...

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Calls are growing for new datacentre approvals to be halted until stronger protections are considered

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