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Peter Lewis

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The biggest threat from AI is the sense that we have no say in it. To that I say game on

The biggest threat from AI is the sense that we have no say in it. To that I say game on

Of all the drivers of the populist wave, one of the most powerful is the sense of inevitability that surrounds what we are told is the march of...

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The political battle over Australian immigration is really a story of what kind of nation we want to be

Anyone who thinks the current immigration debate is simply about the number of foreigners being granted legal passage to Australia each year is only...

30.09.2026 20

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The right is wrong about digital duty of care. It promises Australians more freedom, not less

When you hear them cry “freedom”, you know a culture war is brewing. And so it was last week that a bid to make tech companies address the harmful...

14.09.2026 40

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Populist One Nation’s latest victory points to a thirst for unity. But there are better ways to feel connected

One Nation’s byelection win at Secret Harbour on the weekend can be dismissed as the result of the politics of anger and exclusion, but if we are...

02.09.2026 30

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Malcolm in the middle: what can Labor learn from Turnbull’s doomed attempt to govern from the centre?

I wrote my first column for Guardian Australia in August 2016, when the winds of chaos were sweeping the globe, the forces of division were finding...

11.08.2026 40

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The (spin) doctor is in: the Albanese government is in good health, but that could all vanish in an instant

As the Albanese government approaches the midpoint of its second term and following last week’s gathering of its constituent parts, it’s time to...

28.07.2026 40

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AI may be the toughest challenge Anthony Albanese faces this term. Guardrails are urgently needed

The University of Sydney was the natural setting for Anthony Albanese to lay out his vision for how Australia should confront the profound economic...

15.07.2026 30

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We have spent 30 years meeting Pauline Hanson’s anger with our own. What if we tried this instead?

Australians have had a gutful. Across this wide brown land the waves of anger generate their own source of energy as we raise the one-fingered salute...

30.06.2026 30

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How do you want to live? Both James Valentine and the pope have offered a challenge to humanity at a crossroads

James Valentine meets the pope at the Pearly Gates. This is not the lead-in to a punchline delivered too soon, but a match made in heaven that could...

10.06.2026 40

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News Corp noise and AI memes prove Labor is doing something meaningful. The battle lies in selling it

The annual tabling of the budget and the budget reply may have been presented as a dusty ritual but the secret to understanding how it has landed is...

27.05.2026 40

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If Australia is home to an AI gold rush, let’s not squander it. Let’s fjord a different path

The CEOs of AI titans Microsoft and Anthropic have been duchessing Canberra. The reason? They have bet the house that we are at the beginning of an AI...

22.05.2026 50

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The fuel crisis is about to whack Australia. Jim Chalmers’ budget must tread a fine line between panic and preparation

While the treasurer puts the finishing touches to a budget that was to be the lodestar of Labor’s second term, he could be forgiven for thinking he...

29.04.2026 70

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Could AI write this column? In a world of slop-inion, I’m certifying myself human

I never thought I’d have to write these words but here I am: my name is Peter and I am human. What seems like a self-evident proclamation needs to...

14.04.2026 50

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I have always seen myself as ‘progressive’ – but with AI it’s time to hit the brakes

Canberra rolled out the red carpet this week to one of the AI overlords whose technology is driving the world down the path of creative destruction....

02.04.2026 60

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Labor is copping the blame for the US ‘excursion’ in Iran. Can they get Trump out of the driver’s seat?

Australians watching fuel prices skyrocket and interest rates surge in the wake of Donald Trump’s “excursion” into Iran are starting to wonder...

24.03.2026 60

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Peter Lewis

Without effective regulation of AI, society is facing a head-on collision with a driverless car

10.03.2026 60

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Peter Lewis

Pauline Hanson’s populism is a front. But there are lessons for progressives in One Nation’s surging popularity

With its vote surging, One Nation is throwing down the gauntlet to the entire Australian political system, not just to the Coalition but to...

24.02.2026 60

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Without stronger privacy laws, Australians are guinea pigs in a real-time dystopian AI experiment

11.02.2026 50

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Albanese has long framed his leadership around the ‘politics of kindness’ – there’s never been a better time to embrace it

28.01.2026 50

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Albanese is taking away social media for children but hanging out mistletoe for AI. It’s magical thinking

10.12.2025 50

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To defeat the global Goliaths devastating our planet, we must raise an army of Davids

26.11.2025 50

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What would Whitlam do? Fifty years on from the dismissal, his values could still guide Australian politics

11.11.2025 50

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Joy and division: Albanese may feel like a rock star but beware the unknown pleasures of weak opposition

29.10.2025 50

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Big Tech deploys Orwellian doublespeak to mask its democratic corrosion

15.10.2025 40

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‘Don’t panic’ could be Albanese’s mantra but that doesn’t mean we aren’t concerned about life, the universe and everything

01.10.2025 50

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Australian culture, resources and democracy for $4,300 a year? Thanks for the offer, tech bros, but no thanks

16.09.2025 50

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Without a subtle hand, Chalmers’ ‘abundance’ just becomes a new way of serving up the free market’s greatest hits

27.08.2025 60

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Can AI deliver economic nirvana? Only if workers can monitor and shape how it’s used

12.08.2025 50

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All the way with Donald J? Albanese’s second term will be defined by how he handles the elephant in the room

30.07.2025 40

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As we race headlong into our glorious AI-powered future, are we on the road to Idiocracy?

16.07.2025 60

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Peter Lewis