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Australia’s most expensive illusion
Roger Chao | June 5, 2026Why have Australians, otherwise alert to unfairness and quick to condemn political failure, accepted a settlement around work and housing that now punishes so many of them?
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Battles of perception
Daniel Baldino | June 5, 2026Australia’s vulnerability in future crises may not stem from a lack of military capability, but from how quickly confusion, mistrust and informational disruption can shape public and political responses.
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Connecting the dots on youth mental illness
Yenny Vandalita | June 5, 2026If our youth support programs are working, why do mental health disorders among young people continue to rise?
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Of art and artifice
Elisa Tersigni | June 4, 2026In a landscape increasingly saturated with instant content, the verified effort of a human creator is shifting from a baseline expectation to a highly coveted, bespoke quality. Ultimately, what we value about art is not whether it’s perfect, but its ability to connect us with another human being.
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The risks and rewards of AI biology
Stephen Turner | June 4, 2026Artificial intelligence is rapidly learning to autonomously design and run biological experiments, but the systems intended to govern those capabilities are struggling to keep pace.
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Lost in translation
Samantha Dunn | June 4, 2026AI offers an easy and accessible translation service which is putting real translators out of business, but from courtrooms to hospitals, interpreting what people say demands more than language fluency.
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Welcome to workslop!
Mary Tate | June 3, 2026The New Zealand government’s promised overhaul of its public service has made much of the potential of artificial intelligence to streamline operations and compensate for savage cuts in the workforce, so will it work?
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Don’t get fooled again
T.J. Thomson | June 3, 2026AI generated images, videos and articles are everywhere, so how can you recognise them as the auto-generated slop they are and avoid them in future?
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Decision sovereignty: Why good decisions fail to execute
Peter Fritz | June 2, 2026On 1 June, Global Access Partners released a new monograph, “Decision Sovereignty: A Theory of Execution in Prediction-Rich Economies”, offering a fresh perspective for one of the most persistent puzzles in modern organisations: why good decisions so often fail to translate into successful outcomes.
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The wrong time for the right idea
Michael Pezzullo | June 2, 2026Australian governments have always grappled with the problem of how best to defend Australia against potential adversaries, when others might not be able, or willing, to arrive in force to save the day, and the Defence Strategic Review of 2023 and the National Defence Strategy (NDS) of 2026 sit within this long tradition of independent Australian thinking.
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Godbots
Adam Fenton | June 2, 2026The phenomenon of unofficial religious AI chatbots – also known as “godbots” – is a recent development offering both opportunity and danger for both users and society.
