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Judging Kathleen Folbigg
Jeremy Gans
15 November 2023
A High Court decision has added to concerns about jury behaviour that were passed over by a series of appeal judges
Books & Arts
Active and ongoing
Alecia Simmonds
6 November 2023
Is Chanel Contos’s
Consent Laid Bare
part of a trend back to radical feminism — with a twist?
Books & Arts
Machine questions
Julian Thomas
3 October 2023
What does history tell us about automation’s impact on jobs and inequality?
Books & Arts
Recoding government
Andrew Leigh
30 August 2023
Are governments creating efficient online systems that don’t make us feel stupid?
Books & Arts
Mobile generations
Jock Given
28 June 2023
Behind their inexorable rise, mobile phones leave a landscape littered with once-mighty businesses and technological dead-ends
Books & Arts
And so on
Frank Yuan
22 May 2023
A necessarily incomplete guide to the prolific philosopher Slavoj Žižek
National Affairs
Will vaping reforms go up in smoke?
Jennifer Doggett
12 April 2023
Mark Butler’s plan to ban personal nicotine imports could be undermined by online prescription services
National Affairs
Let’s not pause AI
Toby Walsh
3 April 2023
It’s the lack of intelligence in AI that we should be most worried about, and that requires a different response
Books & Arts
Digital dreams
Julian Vido
17 March 2023
Can computer technology be relied on to increase equality?
National Affairs
Where’s Melbourne’s best coffee, ChatGPT?
Margaret Simons
27 January 2023
The robot can tell you what everyone else thinks — and that creates an opportunity for journalists
Essays & Reportage
No idea what it’s talking about
Julian Vido
16 December 2022
ChatGPT produces plausible answers supremely well. And that’s both its strength and its weakness
Books & Arts
Go with the grain
John Quiggin
13 October 2022
Governments haven’t caught up with the fact that the economy has changed forever
Books & Arts
Bearing the unbearable
Matthew Ricketson
10 October 2022
Parents of the Sandy Hook victims took on conspiracy theorist Alex Jones with stunning results
Books & Arts
Flame wars
Ryan Cropp
12 September 2022
Have Waleed Aly and Scott Stephens mistaken a symptom for the cause?
International
Little Pinks and their achy breaky hearts
Linda Jaivin
3 December 2021
China’s army of easily offended young internet-watchers is attracting its own critics
Essays & Reportage
Atlassian shrugged
Hamish McDonald
29 October 2021
Tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes is using his wealth to shake up Australian business and politics
National Affairs
Cracking the code
Margaret Simons
25 October 2021
Are Google and Facebook picking and choosing who they’ll deal with under the news media bargaining code?
National Affairs
Information warfare
Margaret Simons
8 October 2021
Did the campaign to punish Melbourne’s daily papers for questioning Dan Andrews’s government hit its mark?
International
Shooting down the “girlie guns”
Linda Jaivin
4 October 2021
Beijing’s crackdown on
niangpao
reflects anxieties dating back to Europe’s nineteenth-century incursions
Essays & Reportage
When Amazon comes to town
Alec MacGillis
1 October 2021
The online retailer expanded massively during the Covid-19 pandemic, but where does that leave the rest of the American economy?
Essays & Reportage
Australia’s manosphere: a prehistory
Simon Copland
13 September 2021
How keyboard warriors are displacing men’s right groups
National Affairs
The price of privacy
James Panichi
30 July 2021
A case that began in the Irish courts is shaping Australia’s efforts to update its 1980s privacy laws
International
Off-the-shelf spyware
Brett Evans
22 July 2021
We haven’t heard the last of Pegasus, the authoritarian government’s friend
Books & Arts
Winners take all
Jock Given
13 July 2021
Rules or no rules? The Tech Giants have made some of their own.
National Affairs
What Four Corners did and didn’t do
Margaret Simons
16 June 2021
Their origins might be murky, but Scott Morrison would be wise to deal more fully with the allegations about his friendship with Tim Stewart
Books & Arts
Server servitude
Brett Evans
9 April 2021
Books
| Our brains weren’t designed for 126 emails a day
National Affairs
Australia goes it alone
James Panichi
9 April 2021
Why is competition commissioner Rod Sims more exercised than his international counterparts by Google’s takeover of Fitbit?
International
Biden’s trustbusters
Danielle Wood
25 March 2021
With two of their critics appointed to senior roles by the US president, the big tech companies are on notice
National Affairs
Winning the battle, still fighting the war
James Panichi
24 February 2021
Facebook’s problems with Australian regulators are far from over
National Affairs
Television on the line
Giles Tanner & Jock Given
8 December 2020
The government’s media reform green paper raises big issues. But should it be thinking even bigger?
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