Aid has begun to enter Gaza under the ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas, and Tony Abbott is enjoying time in the spotlight as the Liberal Party burns.
News Corp’s Michael Miller is complaining about theft by AI. That’s rich coming from a foreign company that pays no tax in Australia and undermines our social cohesion.
The plight of the hostages kidnapped on October 7 has shaken Jewish communities for the past two years. Their release doesn’t erase the suffering in Gaza, but perhaps shows a way forward.
ADF targets popular games like FIFA to recruit young Australians with shiny ads
The military is targeting young people with an interest in video games. And it appears to be working.
TikTok is filled with videos of teens sharing information about ways to circumvent Australia’s teen social media ban.
‘It’s a recipe for terrible corporate behavior, to have that kind of market power.’
Why is one cultural icon protected, but not the other? That’s a fair question, and I’m not sure the NSW Court of Appeal has compellingly answered it.
Consternation over how Trump’s ‘deal’ has been struck seems only to have permeated circles of Palestinian people and their allies who actually care about the meaning of equal rights for all.
The late Jane Goodall becomes one of the figures both lucky and unlucky enough to have known the end was soon, and to leave behind a message.
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Katherine Deves’ awkward estimates, The West keeps it in the family, and authoritarianism is *so* cringey
Plus, the government signs yet another eyebrow-raising Israeli contract.
Barely anyone except Labor supports the government’s FOI reforms
Those opposed to the tightening of Australia’s freedom of information regime are gathering force, meaning Labor will struggle to drag its bill through the Senate.
Donald Trump would not be the worst person to ever get a Nobel Peace Prize
The Nobel Peace Prize was, from its very inception, about the wealthy whitewashing their own involvement in violence. So why shouldn’t Trump get one?
Israel mulls ceasefire deal after signing on to Trump’s plan
The government of Israel is discussing whether to back the first phase of Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan, and Tim Wilson has added fuel to the Liberal Party fire.
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Excessive data collection for teen social media ban is illegal, warns privacy commissioner
All the key bust-ups and golden nuggets from Senate estimates
As if to prove a point, leaked Qantas group chats reveal a gross problem
The ChatGPT-maker’s first contract with Treasury might be small, but as one firm’s analysis of procurement argues, it could be the first step towards a lucrative whole-of-government deal.
Australia’s universities may win in global rankings, but they’re failing teachers and students
Can wise heads fix the hard problem of AI policy?
Australia’s thirst over AUKUS could drain the ocean: A short history of desperation!
A long-running quest to obtain a departmental brief hit another wall yesterday.
Trump is killing the rule of law in the United States. We need to suspend our extradition agreement
As Donald Trump’s show trials of his critics begin, countries with extradition treaties and law enforcement cooperation with the US face a growing risk of being caught up.
Here’s a list of questions for Senate estimates that will probably, definitely, not be asked
We’ve compiled a short list of the questions that could be asked at estimates, but probably won’t be.
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All that and more in Australian politics this week.
Why has Albanese stuck his neck out for the incumbent? Because Starmer has, in many, ways emulated Albanese.
Roughly halfway through, The Hack delivers itself a blow from which it never recovers
The Albanese government sailed through its week of climate announcement, courtesy of media coverage that obsessed over the political fallout instead of the actual policy.
An alarming number of recent examples prove the international rule of law is dead. What was once an unprecedented act is now an almost daily occurrence.
Literally nothing good has come from any of it.
Everyone is ignoring the science on what Meta’s generative AI investment really costs, even though there’s no evidence of a single, significant societal benefit.
A major climate change report has laid out a dire future. Meanwhile Environment Minister Murray Watt has handed another win to Woodside.
In a reversal from April, ratings agency S&P says Australia’s fiscal position is sound. But cheerleaders for austerity and a punitive economy don’t want to know about it.
Individual taxpayers kept last year’s budget deficit down to a small number. But one form of organised crime is paying less and less tax.
Crikey’s list of our worst companies is dominated by oligopolists, reflecting Australia’s disease of market concentration. It gives us lazy managers and dud boards — but, perversely, we all benefit from it.
Google and Amazon have both ramped up their public relations campaigns on AI.
While French citizens broadly agree about immigration, political and media interests can’t help but turn the issue into an ideological battleground.
Albanese and Blair were on opposite sides of the Iraq War debate, while Trump supported the invasion. This week, they landed on the same page.