Crowded refugee boat

‘Stop the boats’ message masks true immigration picture

By Alan Gamlen Australia has spent a quarter of a century selling the world a simple idea: crack down on boats at the border, and people will believe you have migration
Read more1 September 2026
Female automation machine engineer student study and inspection control robot machine in university workshop. ai robot technology new innovation trend of manufacturing in industry 5.0

AI may be ‘biggest transformation in our lifetime’

By Michelle Grattan Artificial intelligence (AI) should help Australia achieve its long term productivity target, while having “profound” effects on the labour
Read more1 September 2026
Maryanne Humphries

Sharing one document can save families heartache

By Maryanne Humphries As a registered nurse now overseeing clinical teams in the aged care sector, I know exactly how emotionally challenging it can be for families who
Read more1 September 2026
snowfields

Snow resorts facing big challenges as season is cut short

The Australian snow industry is being hit with a “severe lack of snow” that has led to early season shutdowns and a crisis for resort businesses. In a statement
Read more31 August 2026
Internet searching

AI content crawling is completely changing web search 

By Dana McKay and Damiano Spina For 30 years, the world wide web has run on a surprisingly profound social contract: most sites are free for search engines to access,
Read more31 August 2026
Trump and Albanese

Most Australians still want to stick with US alliance

By Samuel Garrett In 1951, Australia and the United States signed the ANZUS Treaty, declaring “publicly and formally their sense of unity, so that no potential
Read more31 August 2026
Pauline Hanson, Leader of One Nation

One Nation WA win ends Labor’s safe harbour

By Michelle Grattan Neither Labor nor the Liberals needed the bruising Secret Harbour byelection to tell them One Nation had become a major player. But Saturday’s
Read more31 August 2026
Ella Langley

Ella Langley track keeps bouncing back to the top

Ella Langley’s Choosin’ Texas has gone back to the top of the ARIA singles chart for the 11th non-consecutive week. The song was released in 2025 as the lead single
Read more31 August 2026
Haigh’s Chocolates

Haigh’s Chocolates finally opens in Brisbane

Australia’s oldest family-owned chocolate maker – Haigh’s Chocolates – finally has a store in Brisbane. The store at Westfield Mt Gravatt (formerly known as
Read more28 August 2026
AI robots

AI is about to change everything – Here is the checklist

By Shane Rodgers Everything is about to change. Work. Life. Everything. We can all feel it rising like a storm. Artificial intelligence, once the province of science
Read more28 August 2026