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A perfect storm has formed as four powerful threats escalate and feed on each other. We seem to be in no fit state to handle the challenge.
The first round of tenders for the Macquarie Point stadium have landed.
A woman who killed and then dismembered her husband has been sentenced in court.
An investigation into the 2023 Taipan helicopter crash that killed four soldiers should be reviewed due to claims of corruption, a senate committee recommends.
Reserve Bank governor Michele Bullock said inflation in Australia was “too high” as she prepares to consider lifting interest rates for the fourth time this year.
A long-running pay dispute between Queensland Rail and seven unions has ended with an agreement, following months of delays for commuters.
Australia’s gambling self-exclusion register is clouded by controversy as its operator battles conflict of interest claims and severe financial woes.
After a week of alarming warnings about the technology’s potential to destroy the world as we know it, our expert tech reporters will take your questions on the reality of the AI threat. Join us at 3pm BST (4pm CEST, 10am EDT) where they will answer live Sign up or sign in to…
Peer takes full-time position at the controversial company as it fends off pressure from both Andy Burnham’s government and Sadiq Khan Another former government minister has been hired by a controversial US AI company, this time Palantir, which has appointed Andy Burnham’s…
Tech bosses have called for a slowdown in artificial intelligence and the creation of formal guardrails from the US government. But why is President Trump unmoved by the doomsday predictions, dismissing them as a ‘hoax’? What lies behind his embrace of the AI industry? Jonathan…
MTC will also stage a local production of Broadway hit John Proctor is the Villain, as well as plays starring Rachel Griffiths, Kate Mulvany and Sigrid Thornton Melbourne has snagged the highly anticipated Australian premiere of David Adjmi’s 70s rock drama Stereophonic, which…
After the writer was stabbed in a horrific attack, his wife started making a video diary of his recovery. The clips are featured in a new film from Alex Gibney, who drew on Dennis Potter to create a powerful portrait of Rushdie’s tumultuous life Eliza Griffiths was at home in…
This Guy-Ritchie-directed gangland drama is deathly dull. It’s a charm-free watch with awful characters and humour so genital-based that at one point Helen Mirren yells a penis joke at a sausage MobLand. It sounds like a regional nightclub. Or a boyband. But it’s not. It’s a…
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