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Christa Pike survived an execution attempt in Tennessee this week, after receiving two doses of pentobarbital, a lethal drug. As a result, Governor...
For many years, the annual United Nations climate conference, known as the COP, has represented something profoundly important: The hope that the...
One of the issues with sushi train political journalism (just grabbing whatever comes round on the train) is that only the bright and shiny – often...
Having a “Pre-COP” meeting in Fiji and Tuvalu is one of those initiatives that seemed a good idea at the time. No doubt it still has resonance as...
The latest corporate tax data released this week by the Australian Tax Office showed that, once again, major gas producers are paying no company tax....
For decades, successive governments have kept unemployment payments in Australia below all accepted measures of adequacy – JobSeeker now sits at...
Rate rises hit mortgage holders, first-home buyers and jobs, while doing nothing to fix many of the supply shocks driving prices higher. Governments...
“The word ‘Hurricane’ is the name given to nature’s strongest storm. A hurricane occurs when high pressure And low pressure masses of air come...
The Reserve Bank of Australia has raised the cash rate to 4.6 per cent from 4.35 per cent, taking the key rate to its highest level since late 2011 as...
Uber Eats turned 10 in Australia this year. The service launched in Melbourne in April 2016. Pizza delivery was already familiar to Australian...
Before the marches, immigration was not a topic in our focus groups. After them, it still isn’t. The people keeping it on the front page are not...
A note to readers: I will shortly leave Industry Fund Services and, sadly, this is my final column. It’s been a pleasure writing for The New Daily...
In every country that’s slid from democracy into strongman rule over the past half-century, the first step was capture of the media by friends of...
In August the unemployment rate rose to 4.6 per cent, the highest for nearly five years, even as employment continued to grow relatively solidly. It...
As Anthony Albanese and the world pretend to wring their hands over both the ‘inevitability’ of AI and the ‘struggle’ to set guardrails, the...
The revelation that an AI agent turned rogue and breached a firewall to get at Medicare statistics has strongly reinforced Anthony Albanese’s case...
An OpenAI artificial intelligence agent gained unauthorised access to an Australian government Medicare statistics portal in June, accessing both...
Both last year’s Productivity Commission’s figures and Treasury’s in the Intergenerational Report this week promise enough benefits from AI to...
The Liberals, Nationals and One Nation are at it again – promising to tear down good, enduring policies for the Australian people for the base...
The latest Apple Watch models have some new features – they can listen to the sounds around you all day, transcribe snippets of conversation on...
The rise of women within populist-right politics complicates assumptions about representation, showing that putting women in positions of power does...
Every few years, Treasury performs a task that demographers do every day. It tries to imagine Australia decades into the future. The 2026 version...
During his visit to the US, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese refused to rule out Australia joining the European Union, after US President Donald Trump...
Social media and digital services have become central to our daily lives. From sharing experiences with friends and family, to shopping, ordering...
Artificial intelligence did not suddenly arrive in our love lives with ChatGPT. Dating apps have used algorithms and machine learning for years to...
Hi Craig, If my super fund with a 60 per cent taxable component is converted totally into pension mode, will this pension fund also have 60 per cent...
Amid Pauline Hanson’s latest racism controversy, Australia’s most right-wing government announced yet another life-changing and devastating...
Tony Burke was late to the National Press Club to announce the government’s migration policy on Thursday. Six weeks late, to be precise. After the...
In their appearance before the House economics committee on Friday, the executive of the Reserve Bank made it quite clear that we can expect more...
Can a country change continents? Canada seems set to try. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has announced an intention to seek some novel form of...
The Albanese government will stop the entry of students’ family members, attack “visa hopping”, and drastically cut the numbers of those on...
Superannuation as a solution to the housing crisis risks trying to fix one problem by making another worse. The proposal from One Nation to allow...
With all the talk about Australia’s migration “issue”, there is one question that has remained noticeably absent. What problem are we solving?...
Australia’s electrification story started in 1888 in Tamworth, when that far-sighted regional community installed the nation’s first electric...
While Australia has problems (housing, productivity, social cohesion, shrinking middle class, skills shortage), regular readers of this column will...
Collecting an appropriate amount of revenue from multinational corporations is challenging enough for the Australian Taxation Office, but how will it...
One Nation on Monday released a radical policy proposing Australia net overseas migration (NOM) be negative over three years, as the country reduced...
There has rightly been a lot of talk this week about what Australia’s teenagers see and do online. Bullying, body image issues, and violence against...
Since time immemorial, governments of all ideological persuasions have regulated harmful forms of speech, including laws addressing fraud, terrorism,...
Swimming in political paddling pools means swallowing a lot of hypocrisy, just as a matter of course. For most commercial politicians, opinions tend...
In a heated interview on ABC’s 7.30 this week, One Nation’s would-be treasurer Barnaby Joyce was unable to explain how much superannuation...
Pauline Hanson declared in a recent News24 (formerly Sky News) documentary: “I don’t back down”. This week Hanson and her party followed...
The “Gish gallop” debating technique involves making so many false or misleading claims in quick succession to sneak away without proper...
The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were unlike anything the world had seen before. For America, and the watching world, September 11 (or 9/11)...
Labor is no doubt dreading the likelihood of further interest rate rises, despite Treasurer Jim Chalmers talking up the economy. When One Nation...
Sovereignty is one of those words that gets thrown around when politically expedient, but without the gravity it actually deserves. It’s basic...
The headline feature of the federal government’s exposure draft of its long-promised digital duty of care is an “off switch”. Social media...
Migration debates have a nasty habit of forcing us into two silly camps. Apparently you either need to defend the migration system exactly as it is or...
One Nation’s rise reflects deeper economic insecurity, political alienation and distrust in institutions. Defeating it requires more than...
In a sign of the brutal impact of the Reserve Bank’s three interest rate rises, more than a million Australians worked multiple jobs in the June...