Australia is campaigning for a Security Council seat on a promise to defend international law. Yet Albanese condemned Russia by name while saying nothing comparable about US actions – even after Trump threatened from the same UN stage to “annihilate” Iran.

Australia’s Left must unite and rise to meet the moment

There is more opportunity to push back against toxic centrism

Two Israeli directors made a documentary about their own military's killing of Palestinian civilians. The Israeli government called it treason.

Safe abortion has always been a union issue. Because when politicians choose to turn abortion from a reproductive health procedure into a criminal offence, it’s not their rich mates who lose access t...

A handful of tech billionaires are racing to build superhuman AI. Nobody voted for this. Sign the petition: Australia must push for a global slowdown.

Ballot for new leader expected next week after Waters quits to manage pre-existing kidney disease that has ‘declined significantly’ * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Greens leader Larissa Waters has announced she will step down due to ill health, with a party room meeting scheduled for next week to choose her successor. Waters revealed on Monday night she has been managing a pre-existing kidney disease, but that it had “declined significantly over the course of recent months”. Continue reading...

In early September, the organization behind Canada's push for small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) quietly signalled their demise, researcher and author Susan O'Donnell writes in analysis for The Ene...

Prime minister says he told chief executive he was disappointed it had taken company ‘way too long’ to inform government of breach

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Labor, Coalition agree OpenAI's Medicare breach proves the need for Australia to secure "a seat at the AI table" by rolling out data centres nationally.

State and federal energy ministers say investments in new renewable energy and storage should ‘fully offset’ new datacentres’ energy needs

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One hundred years ago Don Dunstan was born and 50 years ago, in October 1976, the then South Australian premier published a cookbook. It sounds like a charming eccentricity of the era. It was actually a small expression of a much larger political idea.

The mother of Glen Newport who died on the job from extreme heat in 2013 has written to Deputy Premier Jarrod Bleijie to say she is sickened by his actions in suspending the workplace heat policy best...