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An amazing, literally jaw-dropping, story appeared yesterday: the artificial intelligence company Anthropic has warned investors that advanced AI...
Which communities will be most impacted by this week's interest rate increase? Which communities will be most impacted by this summer's...
I had an economics teacher who once joked that he set the same exam questions year after year. It was not a problem, he said, "Because I just...
If you walk our streets and return home with clean shoes, you should spare a thought for Edward H. Lehner who has died at the age of 93. Subscribe now...
The headlines were impossible to miss: Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading "Rogue AI hacks Medicare"....
As a precocious young lad in the late 1960s I was mightily influenced by a book called Facing the Atomic Future by Sir Ernest William Titterton, a...
Opposing American lawlessness is a patriotic act with less downside than the government realises. Just ask voters. Subscribe now for unlimited access....
Australia is once again pushing for a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council, alongside Finland and Mongolia, because "a safer world is...
Artificial intelligence is pouring into streaming music, forcing Spotify and the wider industry to decide what an artist actually is. But the best...
The revelation that an AI agent turned rogue and breached a firewall to get at Medicare statistics has strongly reinforced Anthony Albanese's...
America has been a particularly annoying notional ally and former friend over recent months. But what would be the point of complaining? President...
Poor bloke. He's lost so much it's almost too awful to contemplate. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading...
That Intergenerational Report scared the bejesus out of me. Here's what frightened me most. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup...
Bureaucrats are easy scapegoats for the ills that come with governments supplying thousands services. Sure they make some ridiculous and identifiable...
First of all, my humble thanks for the warm reception my first essay in this forum on Tuesday received from Echidna readers. Subscribe now for...
The many ponderous pundits, armchair analysts, talking heads and paid-up members of the commentariat who have spent the last few days critiquing the...
The proposal that Canada could become an associate member of the European Union is of historic moment and something which Australia should take heed....
I was born in Gunnedah, on the Liverpool Plains in north-central New South Wales - a small farming town with a population of about 10,000 people,...
Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading Having been born at the tail end of the baby boom, it was inevitable I would...
Australia's migration debate is at fever pitch, with both the government and One Nation announcing policies on the subject in the past week. In...
Australia's inwardly focused immigration debate is a tawdry exercise heaving with more politics than policy. Subscribe now for unlimited access....
The Albanese government has set out the most comprehensive statement on AI any Australian government has made. Subscribe now for unlimited access....
"How do we tell Mum?" I whispered over the phone. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading Those were the...
You're riled up. It might be the overnight 30 cent hike in the price of a litre of petrol. Or the half day wasted waiting for the plumber to turn...
When was the last time public art, like the new Sky Vessels in Launceston, was revealed to universal acclaim? Subscribe now for unlimited access....
Every once in a while, we get a planetary alignment of evidence so significant that you have to pay attention. Subscribe now for unlimited access....
Tony Burke was late to the National Press Club to announce the government's migration policy on Thursday. Six weeks late, to be precise....
I've been living under intense surveillance for the past 13 years. Every movement monitored. Every step followed. Every conversation overheard....
I think I'd love to have philosophers in charge of everything. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading I feel...
Clinton election strategist James Carville was on the money in 1992 when he coined the phrase "It's the economy, stupid." Subscribe now...
Gross domestic product (GDP) is a flawed measure. Economists have known this for as long as we've been measuring it. Subscribe now for unlimited...
Who knows when and how the end will come for humanity? Will an overheated climate make life impossible? Or will artificial intelligence (AI) decide...
Albo's old home was down the road a few blocks from where I lived - if you could call it "living" back then. Subscribe now for...
Allocating 73 per cent of a $560 million community infrastructure program to government-held seats: approximately $409 million. Subscribe now for...
Here's an interesting figure: Australia's household debt (mortgages, credit cards, loans etc) is $3400 billion. Australia's total...
"It must have been absolutely terrifying for Ms Ticehurst to die knowing that her worst fears had been realised." Subscribe now for...
At this time, 25 years ago, traumatised emergency services personnel were still working an enormous pile of glass, concrete and torn metal, with its...
Jacqui Lambie nailed it last week when she opened fire on Pauline Hanson. Every round hit the target. But it was the headshot which impressed me the...
Not all superheroes wear tight-fitting costumes and seek truth and justice. Some wear school uniforms. Some wear hi-vis work clothes. Some stand...
It's not all men, but it's almost always men. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading A series of sexual...
Most Australians believe disasters happen to someone else. Until they don't. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue...
I wish I grew up in a world without the algorithm. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading I hate the algorithm. I...
Pauline Hanson declared in a recent News24 documentary: "I don't back down". Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to...
At our place, it's bad form to watch Below Deck Mediterranean alone. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading...
The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were unlike anything the world had seen before. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to...
I swore I would never stray. Not this old-fashioned guy. Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup to continue reading Unfaithful friends...
Do we all have fantasy jobs? The work we might have done if we'd had the right skills or talents? And if we had those jobs, would we then be...
Why do so few of our decent, hard-working, caring, young Australians get the credit they deserve? Subscribe now for unlimited access. Login or signup...
Mr Morrow was terrifying. Physically squat, clad in a black academic gown which made him look like an angry bat, his temper was as short as his...
Boy oh boy, there's been some nonsense about the government's proposed digital duty of care on social media. Subscribe now for unlimited...