• Artificial Intelligence

    Encouraging Australian AI


    Hassan Gad |  May 16, 2025


    AI is shaping everything from diplomacy to defence, the question is whether Australia wants to shape those systems or be shaped by them.


  • Politics and Policy

    Leadership trends in the public sector


    Katie Miller |  May 16, 2025


    Australian public workplaces are undergoing significant changes as leaders face new challenges in a rapidly evolving business landscape.


  • Space

    Extraordinary claims


    Chris Impey |  May 16, 2025


    ‘Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence’ − an astronomer explains how much evidence scientists need to claim discoveries like extraterrestrial life.


Latest Story

  • A long road back for the Liberals

    Frank Bongiorno     |      May 15, 2025

    Political parties can recover after a devastating election loss but the Liberals will need to think differently to take power again.

  • All the slop that’s fit to print

    Nicole Blanchett     |      May 15, 2025

    Newspapers and other media organisations around the world are using AI to cut costs and increase output without informing their customers, so have executives and journalists skipped the ethics conversation when it comes to using AI?

  • Finding your ‘why’

    Open Forum     |      May 15, 2025

    A new study has revealed there’s more to happiness and wellbeing than simply chasing goals, it also comes down to why you’re chasing them.

  • The Liberals turn to Ley

    Michelle Grattan     |      May 14, 2025

    Sussan Ley added an “s” to her name as a joke when she was young, and has now added the leadership of the Liberal party to her list of accomplishments.

  • Balancing sovereign capability

    Rajiv Shah     |      May 14, 2025

    Global trade remains the key to national prosperity, whatever Donald Trump may think, and calls for greater sovereign capability must be tempered by intelligent use of limited resources to maximise utility.

  • A world split assunder

    Marc Ablong     |      May 14, 2025

    Elisabeth Braw’s insightful 2024 book, Goodbye Globalization: The Return of a Divided World, has proven remarkably prescient in understanding the turbulent global landscape of 2025.

  • Brand new day?

    Dennis Doyle     |      May 13, 2025

    Every new Pope brings hope of a fresh start for Catholicism, and while Leo XIV will face limits in modernising the Catholic Church, his predecessor Francis set the stage for further reform.

  • The waters of Mars

    Hrvoje Tkalčić     |      May 13, 2025

    Although a barren desert today, Mars had oceans billions of years ago and recent studies of meteorite strikes and marsquakes hint at a remnant underground ocean of liquid water on the Red Planet.

  • Strive to fight disease in PNG

    Open Forum     |      May 13, 2025

    Partners from the Burnet Institute, the Papua New Guinea Institute of Medical Research, National Department of Health and the University of Papua New Guinea are working to understand how to help local healthcare workers improve their surveillance of, and response to, vector-borne diseases in Papua New Guinea.

  • R.I.P. USAID

    Lee Jones     |      May 12, 2025

    Donald Trump’s destruction of USAID will only accelerate the West’s miserly convergence with Chinese policy in which foreign aid is commercialised and limited, prioritising national self-interest over generosity.

  • The Alchemy of Myth: Reading Jordan Peterson’s “Maps of Meaning”

    Jason Beale     |      May 12, 2025

    Jordan Peterson’s first book, Maps of Meaning, explores the psychological and social reasons that people across different cultures and epochs produce myths and stories with similar structures but is just as interesting for its insights into the mind of one of the most important and prolific public intellectuals of the 21st century.

  • Enter the Antichrist

    Philip Almond     |      May 12, 2025

    Donald Trump posted an AI-generated photograph of himself dressed as the pope to Truth Social on May 3 which was then shared by several White House’s accounts. Is this what the AntiChrist looks like?