The shocking attack on Helen Haines adds weight to warnings that our political discourse is being supercharged by online hate ...

Three forces are reshaping Asia and Australia’s place in it: the decline of one empire, the rise of another, and the ...

Beware the politician who mentions the national interest when changing a decision, and more so when they claim full credit ...

The likely defeat of Victorian Labor next month, amid mounting corruption scandals, will take place in the shadow of ...

Could the use of AI in decision-making by governments, the public service and the judiciary breach constitutional requirements that public officials be people? New In a perfect world, a parliamentary ...

Mark Tedeschi AM QC is a practising barrister in Sydney. He is a visiting professor at the University of Wollongong and the author of three true-crime books, including Murder at Myall Creek: The Trial ...

In a recent major article in the Sydney Morning Herald, leading journalist Peter Hartcher wrote that for Australia to have “early access to future frontier AI tools” it would need to persuade AI ...

In these strange days since OpenAI admitted that its autonomous agents entered four Australian government websites uninvited, new facts are emerging about those incidents. It turns out that not only ...

The hero’s journey of High Fidelity (2000) is a modest one: it simply describes one man’s passage from being a total arsehole to mere arsehole. Middle-aged record store owner Rob Gordon (John Cusack) ...