The United Arab Emirates (UAE) choosing to quit the Opec oil cartel after nearly 60 years of membership is, to use President Trump’s parlance, ‘bigly’ big. The UAE’s departure removes around 15 per cent of the cartel’s production capacity, with some analysts already describing the move as ‘the beginning of the end of Opec’.
Established in 1960 by Iran, ...
The government’s plan to fund Australian journalism through a levy on digital platforms rests on a sound premise: a healthy democracy depends on reliable information. But this latest attempt — following the shortcomings of the News Media Bargaining Code — is a high-risk move. We live in an era
Early voting is now in full swing for the coming Farrer election on May 9. The by-election is being framed as a temperature check of the right in federal politics, given the rise of One Nation and the collapse of the Liberal and National parties. The competition in the
When I was a teenager, I became mildly obsessed with The Darwin Awards. The Darwin Awards, in their own words, ‘salute the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally remove themselves from it in a spectacular manner.’ They include a man who tested a supposedly broken detonator in his mouth (it wasn’t broken) and a bloke who ...
On the back of a year-long ‘AI in Government’ benchmarking initiative in collaboration with The Mandarin, Liquid last week released ‘Speed. Safety. Scalability. A roadmap for responsible AI adoption in Australia’s public service’. In this article, Liquid Partner Steven Marrinan focuses on why leaders need to first understand where friction
Sam Altman has always been a charmer. At school he revelled in the art of persuasion, joining a school debate team and taking part in national tournaments. After charming his teachers, Altman graduated into charming investors, launching a startup at just 19 before working his way up to become president of Silicon Valley’s premier startup incubator, Y ...
Last February the White House released photos styling President Donald Trump as a king on social media. This week he got to host a genuine king, for the state visit of Charles III and Queen Camilla. During this week, the royals have been paraded around Washington and New York as
President Trump lavished praise upon King Charles from the Oval Office at the outset of his four-day state visit to the United States. He called the monarch ‘a man of class’ and said ‘it’s great to have a king in here’. A conspicuous absence of ‘No Kings’ protests in the presence of a real king had not gone unnoticed. But it was Charles’s address to a ...
Tolga Akmen/ POOL EPA, Alex Brandon AP, The ConversationThere was a time when Elon Musk and Sam Altman were friends. But the two tech billionaires are now embroiled in a bitter legal battle in the United States that could reshape not just OpenAI, the artificial intelligence (AI) firm behind ChatGPT
By cracking down on protest and edging toward heavy-handed enforcement, NSW risks turning its police into politicised enforcers — a dangerous drift toward I.C.E.-style tactics. read now...
The federal government is one step closer to fulfilling the promise of the Universities Accord, with the formal opening of a guiding body for the higher education sector. Legislation establishing the Australian Tertiary Education Commission (ATEC) came into force on April 29, following the passage of legislation last month. ATEC
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) choosing to quit the Opec oil cartel after nearly 60 years of membership is, to use President Trump’s parlance, ‘bigly’ big. The UAE’s departure removes around 15 per cent of the cartel’s production capacity, with some analysts already describing the move as ‘the beginning of the end of Opec’.
Established in 1960 by Iran, ...
The government’s plan to fund Australian journalism through a levy on digital platforms rests on a sound premise: a healthy democracy depends on reliable information. But this latest attempt — following the shortcomings of the News Media Bargaining Code — is a high-risk move. We live in an era
Early voting is now in full swing for the coming Farrer election on May 9. The by-election is being framed as a temperature check of the right in federal politics, given the rise of One Nation and the collapse of the Liberal and National parties. The competition in the
When I was a teenager, I became mildly obsessed with The Darwin Awards. The Darwin Awards, in their own words, ‘salute the improvement of the human genome by honoring those who accidentally remove themselves from it in a spectacular manner.’ They include a man who tested a supposedly broken detonator in his mouth (it wasn’t broken) and a bloke who ...
On the back of a year-long ‘AI in Government’ benchmarking initiative in collaboration with The Mandarin, Liquid last week released ‘Speed. Safety. Scalability. A roadmap for responsible AI adoption in Australia’s public service’. In this article, Liquid Partner Steven Marrinan focuses on why leaders need to first understand where friction
Sam Altman has always been a charmer. At school he revelled in the art of persuasion, joining a school debate team and taking part in national tournaments. After charming his teachers, Altman graduated into charming investors, launching a startup at just 19 before working his way up to become president of Silicon Valley’s premier startup incubator, Y ...
Last February the White House released photos styling President Donald Trump as a king on social media. This week he got to host a genuine king, for the state visit of Charles III and Queen Camilla. During this week, the royals have been paraded around Washington and New York as
President Trump lavished praise upon King Charles from the Oval Office at the outset of his four-day state visit to the United States. He called the monarch ‘a man of class’ and said ‘it’s great to have a king in here’. A conspicuous absence of ‘No Kings’ protests in the presence of a real king had not gone unnoticed. But it was Charles’s address to a ...
Tolga Akmen/ POOL EPA, Alex Brandon AP, The ConversationThere was a time when Elon Musk and Sam Altman were friends. But the two tech billionaires are now embroiled in a bitter legal battle in the United States that could reshape not just OpenAI, the artificial intelligence (AI) firm behind ChatGPT
By cracking down on protest and edging toward heavy-handed enforcement, NSW risks turning its police into politicised enforcers — a dangerous drift toward I.C.E.-style tactics. read now...
The federal government is one step closer to fulfilling the promise of the Universities Accord, with the formal opening of a guiding body for the higher education sector. Legislation establishing the Australian Tertiary Education Commission (ATEC) came into force on April 29, following the passage of legislation last month. ATEC
