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Learning to live with a technology where there is a 10% chance it could commit the ultimate genocide.
by Gleb Tsipursky - 11/09/2026
The automation of warfare proceeds apace. Are we at Skynet 1.0?
by Binoy Kampmark - 8/09/2026
Five men in a hotel room, but a whole team and gender is on trial, and for what exactly?
by Bettina Arndt - 2/09/2026 - 3 comments
A French court asserts child rights and parental responsibilities are better guardrails for child social media access than blanket bans.
by Binoy Kampmark - 1/09/2026
Is the shakedown becoming the most popular sport for Australians and ambulance-chasing lawyers?
by Brendan O'Reilly - 31/08/2026 - 7 comments
Judge rules that the definition of antisemitism being used by the Royal Commission is too broad, stigmatising legitimate criticism of Israel.
by Binoy Kampmark - 27/08/2026 - 4 comments
As most sporting shooters are well aware, the major parties have little to no interest in the shooting sports.
by David Leyonhjelm - 21/08/2026 - 3 comments
At 75, the Refugee Convention remains a noble promise, increasingly observed in the breach rather than the observance.
by Binoy Kampmark - 12/08/2026 - 2 comments
The Commission spent almost no time asking why universities find it difficult to say that some behaviours and ideas are just plain wrong.
by Steven Schwartz - 12/08/2026 - 1 comment
The public narrative is entirely captured by persistent complaints about the justice system's treatment of rape victims. There's little tolerance for muddying the waters by looking at what the same system does to wrongly accused men.
by Bettina Arndt - 11/08/2026 - 3 comments
Over its four-year life the Costigan royal commission had its terms of reference frequently widened, its timeframes extended, its powers increased and resources expanded.
by Scott Prasser - 4/08/2026 - 1 comment
A government-funded exercise in 'Do as I say, not what I do', coming to a library near you.
by John Mikkelsen - 21/07/2026 - 6 comments

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