Could the use of AI in decision-making by governments, the public service and the judiciary breach constitutional requirements that public officials be people?

With 3.5 million households experiencing food insecurity last year, food banks are struggling to meet demand, while some communities can’t even access them.

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

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Independent Planning Commission says climate change impacts from Hunter Valley project will be ‘outweighed’ by economic benefits

One Nation’s rise is often treated as cultural anger. New data point to something more concrete: poor health, financial insecurity and communities left without the services that make life work.

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

After a flood of tech industry cash, President Donald Trump killed a requirement that AI giants disclose their riskiest

For decades, we couldn’t trace the link between new fossil fuel projects and their damage to people and planet. But now we can.

Carbon Impacts Tracer can be used to estimate climate impact from emissions across eight different factors, including lost food production The biggest coal project before authorities in New South Wales, the HVO mine, will emit the equivalent of about 809m tonnes of climate-warming carbon dioxide if it wins approval. That number, for most people, will carry little meaning, as might the calculation that adding that amount of greenhouse gas to the atmosphere will cause an extra 0.00036C of global heating. But what if the public was instead told that that amount of carbon dioxide would expose almost half a million people to unprecedented heat, or kill nearly 15 million coral colonies on the Great Barrier Reef every time it bleaches? All those statistics come from a new tool that translates the emissions from burning fossil fuels into estimated real-world climate effects taken from peer-reviewed climate studies. “Small numbers in global warming can mean catastrophic impacts,” says prof Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, a climate scientist at the Australian National University who is part of a team launching the Carbon Impacts Tracer. Continue reading...

The appointment of a senior Murdoch executive to a plum diplomatic posting in New York has raised questions about Anthony Albanese’s judgement and his relationship with the right-wing mogul.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese opened Climate Week NYC on Monday by leaning on Australia's renewables progress: massive rooftop solar uptake, ten thousand home batteries a week, enough wind and solar...