The Reformers were once ‘twentysomething-year-old guys’ hoping to shift the NSW party to the right. Their messages show how it all went wrong

A new study has found hardly any of the $1.2 million worth of elephant ivory sold or advertised in a six-month period in Australia came with paperwork proving its origin.

If only we knew then what we know now. In August 2025, Queensland’s LNP Government announced it was abandoning a court case against Adani over unpaid coal royalties, a case that started in 2023 under ...

A solar plant built in the 1980s in a remote opal mining town has been recognised for its pioneering contribution to the renewable energy industry.

CSIRO study finds households with solar and batteries are enjoying periods of "limitless" electricity, a shift that clashes head on with concepts of energy sharing and efficiency.

We speak to the prominent AI researcher and leading critic of the AI industry, Timnit Gebru, who was recently awarded a 2026 Right Livelihood Award for her work investigating the harms and hype behind...

The risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals

Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.

There is no greater treachery than this failure to face up to the climate crisis. How can we now fend off despair?

Avoiding a rise in unemployment is important for the RBA – but apparently not a dealbreaker

Reddit is ending support for RSS feeds, as the company continues tightening access to its trove of user-generated content.

Union figures and leading academics want big tech companies building Australian data centres to help fund the local AI industry through a levy.

Doctors and pharmacists have criticised Eli Lilly's new online platform LillyDirect that will dispense certain medicines, starting with Mounjaro, directly to a patient's door.

Satellite imagery shows construction accelerating, but advanced packaging could cap 2027 deployment in the low 20s of gigawatts

The NSW Independent Planning Commission (IPC) approves plans that will allow Hunter Valley Operations to continue coal mining at a site near Singleton until 2045.

For decades, successive governments have kept unemployment payments in Australia below all accepted measures of adequacy - JobSeeker now sits at just 41% of the minimum wage, and Youth Allowance is ev...

A senior executive at the company behind the popular ChatGPT tool said Australia was “on the leading edge of how folks are thinking about technology policy”.

Sure, seems safe.

Employees and security researchers said that they had cautioned the company on safely testing its A.I. models and strengthening its corporate infrastructure, but that OpenAI did not listen.

Authoritarian-friendly mass surveillance has never been more adorable