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Buying friends and influencing people
Carlo Edward Caiani | October 6, 2026Canberra can’t outspend Beijing in the region, so Australia’s best bet for lasting influence is to hand Pacific partners real control over how aid is designed and delivered.
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How BYD conquered Australia
Milad Haghani | October 6, 2026Soaring petrol prices have given a boost to electric car sales in Australia and Chinese makers like BYD have reaped full advantage.
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Getting attached to AI
Pascal Vrticka | October 6, 2026AI chatbots are engineered to ape human engagement to maximise the time which users spend with them, exacerbating the emotional as well as intellectual issues caused by increasing human reliance on AI.
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The moral economy of intelligence
Roger Chao | October 5, 2026We do not have to keep finding things that humans can do and machines cannot in order to preserve human moral standing.
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Meta wants to run your life
Rob Nicholls | October 5, 2026Meta’s AI agent Muse has proved an early hit in the race to develop consumer friendly agents able to undertake digital tasks for users.
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The return of king coal
Liz Hicks | October 4, 2026Despite all the promises to combat global warming, the New South Wales Independent Planning Commission has just greenlit an expansion of the largest coal mine project in the state’s history.
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Catcher in the Rye at 75
Sascha Morrell | October 4, 2026The quintessential novel of teenage angst is now 75 years old, and though attitudes to it and its reclusive author have changed over time, it remains a landmark in 20th century cultural history.
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AI for ISIS
Raff Ciccone | October 4, 2026The Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security is seeking public submissions on the nature and drivers of radicalisation in Australia, including the role played by technology.
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A taxing question
Stephen Bartos | October 3, 2026As many large firms don’t pay any tax at all, ordinary Australians must shoulder the burden of paying for government services. Are we overtaxed as a result? It depends what you think government should do
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Pacific leaders call for climate action
Vaeno Wayne Vigulu | October 3, 2026The window to hold warming close to 1.5°C is closing rapidly and the 5th Pacific Oceans Pacific Climate Change Conference has urged the rest of the world to reduce emissions with greater urgency and back Pacific leadership with finance to help Pacific states adapt to rising sea levels.
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Empty promises
Jon Whittle | October 3, 2026As long as key world leaders continue to palm AI safety off onto self-regulation by tech companies, declarations to protect the people will remain meaningless as the companies rush forward without caring about the social, economic and perhaps existential consequences for humanity.
