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Can social media be “safe by design”?
Madhuka Thisuri De Silva | June 9, 2026The proposed digital duty of care to reduce the social and psychological harms wrought by social media is a significant step in the right direction but “safe by design” will only deliver if it works for everyone.
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How the working class turned right
David Peetz | June 9, 2026Working class voters have stopped voting for the traditional socialist and social democratic parties that ignored their interests to embrace middle class concerns and are flocking to the far-right in the USA, Europe and now Australia in the shape of One Nation.
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Stay frosty
Aung Zaw Zaw Phyo | June 9, 2026A new study followed more than 12,000 older Australians and found that staying socially and mentally active also helps people stay physically fit in older age.
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How tech acts human to gain our trust
Open Forum | June 8, 2026Anthropomorphism describes our tendency to attribute human characteristics, emotions or behaviors to machines, animals or natural phenomena and tech companies exploit it to boost engagement with AI.
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This is our home
Sashka Samarawickrama | June 8, 2026Children are watching, thinking and feeling things about the future of the environment and those feelings deserve to be taken seriously.
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AI in the dock
Raisul Islam Sourav | June 8, 2026Our courts are overburdened, and so the use of generative AI promises consistency and efficiency but it risks undermining a fundamental principle of justice: the right to be judged by a human being.
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The philosophy of motherhood
Laura Kotevska | June 7, 2026The experience of motherhood shouldn’t remain cloistered from view in mothers’ groups but deserves its place in our intellectual, artistic, and public imagination.
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The age of the apostles
Stephen Gallagher | June 7, 2026The “12” apostles are a famous tourist attraction on the Great Ocean Road, but they’re also younger and more fragile than one might expect.
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On the calculation of volume
David McCooey | June 7, 2026On the Calculation of Volume is a fantasy series written by Danish writer Solvej Balle exploring an infinite time loop in a fresh and intriguing way.
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They want to believe
Robbie Moore | June 6, 2026Amanda Lohrey’s new novel captures the uncertainties of reason, doubt and belief in telling the story of an ageing psychiatrist in his sixties who takes on a new group of patients who all claim to have been abducted by aliens.
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A psychopath by any other name…
Ava Green | June 6, 2026The traits associated with psychopathy, such as emotional detachment, reduced empathy, and impulsivity, clearly exist and appear in real interactions but rarely present in the clear, consistent way that diagnostic labels suggest.
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Generwriting
Ryan Leack | June 6, 2026The “generative content” or “synthetic text” produced by large language models certainly isn’t writing in the human sense of the word, so what should we call it?
