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Australia’s Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has made digital safety, especially regarding children, a mooring of his premiership. Politically, he is so invested in it as to have become a salesman of sorts. In September last […]

RMIT University Media Release  In the United States, one in five teenagers use artificial intelligence chatbots for romantic relationships. Almost half consider AI to be their friend. Teenagers in Australia too are increasingly turning to […]

To the Prime Minister, the Australian Public Service Commission, the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, and whichever other offices contributed to the decision below – an open statement, and a question you are welcome […]

UNSW Sydney Media Release  Key facts: For decades, public inquiries have exposed strikingly similar patterns of child sexual abuse. Yet each new crime is treated as though nobody could have seen it coming. In recent […]

By Dr Dan Steinbock    The global AI race has entered a new, existential stage. Anthropic CEO’s idea for international cooperation is the step toward right direction. But it is unipolar and thus vulnerable to […]

The Party Animal and the Prime Minister – Why Anthony Albanese’s Leadership is Failing Australia Dedicated to my wife, my confidante – who taught me to see the person behind the mask, and to trust […]

It might seem strange, even hypocritical, for me to step up in defence of a politician from One Nation. And indeed, the politics of One Nation are undeniably not politics I will ever support in […]

I didn’t choose Australia. Not originally, anyway. I came here as a child with my family. I didn’t make the decision, didn’t know what Australia was, what it would become to me, or whether one […]

By Walt Zlotow   President Biden joined Israel’s campaign against Gaza the day after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel. Nearly three years later, as of October 8, Gaza’s 141 square miles have […]

How China is turning citizen complaints into urban solutions By Chen Ziqi When Krisca, an international student in east China’s Shandong Province, stepped out of a taxi, she didn’t realize she had left her bag […]

Ale house readings, spiritual zest, and the inevitable crapulous effect: a pub, the public house, the inn, the tavern, that home that functions between your actual home and the funeral rites that lie ahead, a […]

Continued from What Went Wrong? (Part 5) Part 6: Have We Moved Forward? There was a time when I genuinely believed we were moving forward. I remember the election of Barack Obama in 2008 and the […]

Thomas Hobbes said a frightened people will hand a strongman the right to end their arguments about the truth. Trump worked out he doesn’t need to end the argument. He just needs to own the […]

Has everybody gone nuts? Don’t they notice that AI is not actually making any money? The Wall Street Journal explains – Spending on AI Is at Epic Levels. Will It Ever Pay Off? Tech companies pour hundreds […]