Can we still handle the truth? Journalism, ‘alternative facts’ and the rise of AI | Lenore Taylor
We all have moments in life when we know something big is happening, that we are stepping into a new and consequential experience, and our mind takes a mental Polaroid, an intensely clear snapshot of what that moment looks like…
Gina Rinehart tells summit to devote ‘15 minutes each day to spread the mining message’
Australia’s richest woman has a two-word solution for Australia’s economic pressures: more mines. Gina Rinehart, who is worth an estimated $38bn thanks to her mining interests, used a speech to the Queensland Resources Council earlier this week to push for…
Albanese government approves first new coalmine since taking power
The Australian government has approved a new coalmine development for the first time since it was elected last year. Tanya Plibersek, the federal environment minister, indicated she would give the green light to the Isaac River coalmine in Queensland’s Bowen…
Australia being unable to afford greater environmental protection is a government myth that refuses to die | Euan Ritchie
Like trickle-down economics or goldfish memories only being three seconds long, there’s a myth that continues to haunt this nation, and, like a zombie, it refuses to die. This myth, and the damage it inflicts, has been aided and abetted…
The future is bleak: will the budget help young people? | Fiona Katauskas
The future is bleak: will the budget help young people? | Fiona Katauskas | Opinion | The Guardian Skip to main content
Generational crimes are being committed thick and fast. No wonder Australian kids don’t vote conservative | Jeff Sparrow
Among the myriad indicators of Liberal dysfunction, one statistic leaps out: voters under 34 now prefer the Greens to the Coalition. The figures suggest Australian youth reject the traditional alternative government, opting instead for a party considerably to Labor’s left….
How Tasmania’s anti-protest laws drove Bob Brown back to frontline activism
This isn’t what Bob Brown had planned. At 78, the man who launched the Australian Greens and whose decades of activism remain a lodestar for much of the country’s conservation movement had imagined a shifting focus in the final act…
Reliance on Australia’s military during natural disasters comes at a cost, senator says
Australia needs to rethink how it uses its defence force for natural disasters, reserving its troops for conflict and limiting their deployment except for in the most extreme events, according to the government’s special envoy for disaster recovery, senator Tony…
Advice on voice a ‘cynical political tactic’ to confuse voters, Coalition claims – as it happened
From 13h ago The Coalition is still not satisfied with the release of the solicitor general advice on the Indigenous voice, with new shadow attorney general Michaelia Cash now issuing a new demand for Anthony Albanese to release all the…
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