Across the nation, our culturally and linguistically diverse older population is growing faster than the systems designed to support it. read now...
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This week ACT Independent Senator David Pocock introduced a Bill to ‘protect identity in [a] deepfake future’.
The Bill is titled Online Safety and Other Legislation Amendment (My Face, My Rights) Bill 2025 and will seek to amend the Online Safety Act 2021.
The Bill was introduced merely weeks away from the ‘social media ban’ that will commence on 10 ...
Antifascist combat training is about feeling safe, not tough. read now...
Ransomware has shifted from a disruptive nuisance into one of the most aggressive and costly cyber threats facing organisations of every size and sector. read now...
The key issue driving the authoritarianism of the second coming of the US Trump administration is mass migration, which involves stoking fears in respect of it and the dehumanisation of undocumented migrants. The US is also in the midst of a soft colonisation of northern Australia, and it now has plans to interfere in our domestic policy via monitoring ...
Environmental activist Ben Pennings has come out the other end of a five-year-long legal persecution waged against him by Indian business tycoon Gautam Adani victorious.
Pennings signed off on a 26 November 2025 order that ended the yearslong proceedings, as plaintiffs Adani Mining and Carmichael Rail Network dropped the 26 August 2020 filed lawsuit ...
The extraordinary Brittany Higgins saga, probably one of the biggest political scandal of our time and devastating for multiple people, returned this week to the margin of public attention when one of the legal cases was in the Federal Court. The alleged 2019 rape of Higgins, a staffer of
Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto’s first state visit to Australia earlier this month had two major results, the first of which would once have been considered security-related and the second economic. These days, both are classified as geopolitics. In an era of great power competition, investment and trade inevitably have security
A billionaire feast of ego and excuses, James Packer’s latest interview is less redemption arc, more degustation of delusion. read now...
Daniel J GrantFollowing a year in the life of an “ordinary” woman, Carol, Andrea Gibbs’ second play for Black Swan State Theatre Company is a real original. Moving between moments in front of the curtain and scenes behind the proscenium, the play works as a series of vignettes. Interspersed
CC BYThese days, new technology is presented as inevitable, and resistance is futile. Smartphones and social media for kids? It’s just how it is. Cynical about crypto? You must be a crackpot. Worried about AI slop? Get on board or get left behind. At The Conversation, we have always
In November 1975 the Dismissal seemed the biggest of big deals in Australian political history. For years after, you could still, without great difficulty, find the “rage” Gough Whitlam had asked his supporters to maintain during the 1975 election campaign. The passionate ones survive today, but in dwindling numbers. Few
Across the nation, our culturally and linguistically diverse older population is growing faster than the systems designed to support it. read now...
This week ACT Independent Senator David Pocock introduced a Bill to ‘protect identity in [a] deepfake future’.
The Bill is titled Online Safety and Other Legislation Amendment (My Face, My Rights) Bill 2025 and will seek to amend the Online Safety Act 2021.
The Bill was introduced merely weeks away from the ‘social media ban’ that will commence on 10 ...
Antifascist combat training is about feeling safe, not tough. read now...
Ransomware has shifted from a disruptive nuisance into one of the most aggressive and costly cyber threats facing organisations of every size and sector. read now...
The key issue driving the authoritarianism of the second coming of the US Trump administration is mass migration, which involves stoking fears in respect of it and the dehumanisation of undocumented migrants. The US is also in the midst of a soft colonisation of northern Australia, and it now has plans to interfere in our domestic policy via monitoring ...
Environmental activist Ben Pennings has come out the other end of a five-year-long legal persecution waged against him by Indian business tycoon Gautam Adani victorious.
Pennings signed off on a 26 November 2025 order that ended the yearslong proceedings, as plaintiffs Adani Mining and Carmichael Rail Network dropped the 26 August 2020 filed lawsuit ...
The extraordinary Brittany Higgins saga, probably one of the biggest political scandal of our time and devastating for multiple people, returned this week to the margin of public attention when one of the legal cases was in the Federal Court. The alleged 2019 rape of Higgins, a staffer of
Indonesian president Prabowo Subianto’s first state visit to Australia earlier this month had two major results, the first of which would once have been considered security-related and the second economic. These days, both are classified as geopolitics. In an era of great power competition, investment and trade inevitably have security
A billionaire feast of ego and excuses, James Packer’s latest interview is less redemption arc, more degustation of delusion. read now...
Daniel J GrantFollowing a year in the life of an “ordinary” woman, Carol, Andrea Gibbs’ second play for Black Swan State Theatre Company is a real original. Moving between moments in front of the curtain and scenes behind the proscenium, the play works as a series of vignettes. Interspersed
CC BYThese days, new technology is presented as inevitable, and resistance is futile. Smartphones and social media for kids? It’s just how it is. Cynical about crypto? You must be a crackpot. Worried about AI slop? Get on board or get left behind. At The Conversation, we have always
In November 1975 the Dismissal seemed the biggest of big deals in Australian political history. For years after, you could still, without great difficulty, find the “rage” Gough Whitlam had asked his supporters to maintain during the 1975 election campaign. The passionate ones survive today, but in dwindling numbers. Few