Stocks down as dip buyers come to the rescue of banks
Australia’s share market is again heading lower after a brief reprieve on Thursday, as a rally in major miners runs out of steam. The S&P/ASX200 fell 15.9 points by midday…
Trump didn’t drain the swamp. He turned it into a cesspool | Steven Greenhouse
The president’s second term has been full of donors seeking access, favors for billionaires and apparent conflicts of interest Every time Donald Trump has run for president, he has vowed…
No, Richard Dawkins. AI is not conscious | Arwa Mahdawi
Dawkins appears to have gone from atheist to AI-theist: perhaps he doesn’t view AI as God, but he certainly seems to see it as God-like Are you there God? It’s…
The Elon Musk v Sam Altman battle is a distraction | Karen Hao
Fixating on questions of whether Altman is untrustworthy, or whether Musk is even less so distracts from a far deeper problem with AI If it wasn’t already clear, Elon Musk…
NSW survive nail-biting finish to claim second straight Women’s State of Origin series
Queensland go down 10-14 to New South Wales in game 2 Stunning try-savers deny Maroons’ Jasmine Peters twice The margin was just a few pixels in the video review bunker,…
A-League grand final key to Melbourne City’s treble but Wellington are out to spoil party
After facing the Phoenix in the decider, the women’s premiers will jet off to Korea for their Asian Champions League semi-final What is a grand final when it isn’t, and…
Fatherland review – Sandra Hüller brings a bayonet of intelligence to Paweł Pawlikowski’s taut return
Cannes film festival: Hanns Zischler stars as Thomas Mann on his 1949 tour of Germany, contending with political barbs, personal tragedy and his daughter, played by an extraordinary Hüller Here…
Genesis Owusu: Redstar Wu & the Worldwide Scourge review – political fury and propulsive fun
(Ourness)Seething with righteous anger and moshpit-ready tracks, the Australian artist’s genre-hopping but cohesive LP makes a case for the durability of the form Last September, Genesis Owusu road-tested material from…
Angus Taylor’s plan to bar migrants from welfare payments undermines our quest for belonging | Shadi Khan Saif
The proposed changes draw a clearer line between those who are fully entitled and those who are not A few years ago, during the turmoil in Afghanistan, a friend of…
Let’s not deny the good work Labour has done. But Starmer is too timid for the radical remedies needed now | Polly Toynbee
Rejoining the EU, massive tax reform, scrapping the pension triple lock – a new leader must summon a sense of emergency and deal with the big issues Labour is in…