Researchers are testing the likelihood of AI turning on us – and the possibilities are at best alarming ...

Erin Patterson’s notoriety, and the consuming public fascination with her triple-murder case, adds another layer to her ...

Jacinta Nampijinpa Price’s demotion to the backbenches was, perhaps, inevitable, and has its origins in Liberal leadership ...

Wind farm near Albany, Western Australia / CC BY-SA 2.5 The government’s climate-action agenda has its predictable detractors, but the current decentralised approach is risking a fall in wider public ...

A schoolgirl’s revoked acceptance into a learning camp conducted by a tech company highlights the lack of legal protections for children’s privacy In April this year, Melbourne-based lawyer and parent ...

Does a belief in the End Times inform Scott Morrison’s response to the climate crisis? After more than a year of debate, there are two broad views on Scott Morrison. The first is that he is ...

Dark Emu appeared in bookshops in March 2014 much as most books do: with a brief publicity campaign arranged by its publisher. Bruce Pascoe was already something of a public figure – as well as ...

Almost 25 years after the September 11 attacks prompted rapid changes to Australia’s terrorism laws, the definition of what a terrorist act actually is now faces interrogation It is 61 years since ...

The farcical claim that Scott Morrison was “standing up for women” when he intervened in NSW Liberal preselections to save two men and one woman is somehow still being propagated. The woman in ...

It would have been perfectly simple for Opposition Leader Peter Dutton not to go. George Pell’s funeral was, after all, in Sydney, which is not where Dutton lives. He also has an important meeting ...

Recent ministerial grants and changes to the code of conduct are further signs the government’s not as keen on transparency and accountability as it professes Here’s the thing about transparency and ...