How a billionaire with interests in Greenland encouraged Trump to acquire the territory
US president’s friend Ronald Lauder – who first proposed Arctic expansion – is now making deals in the island One day during his first term, Donald Trump summoned a top…
‘Not regulated’: launch of ChatGPT Health in Australia causes concern among experts
Calls for clear guardrails and consumer education before wider rollout of OpenAI’s health advice platform Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free…
‘It’s AI blackface’: social media account hailed as the Aboriginal Steve Irwin is an AI character created in New Zealand
More than 180,000 people follow the Bush Legend’s accounts across Meta platforms, but its Aboriginal host is a work of digital fiction Get our breaking news email, free app or…
Could Labor’s hate speech laws damage Australia’s free speech? Here’s what you need to know about the contentious bill
Coalition, Greens and free speech advocates have expressed concern about the bill, which looks set to fail in its current form. Here’s why Follow our Australia news live blog for…
Australia news live: ‘increasingly clear’ Ley’s leadership unsalvageable, Wong says as hate speech bill standoff continues
PM says dealing with Coalition like ‘trying to grab smoke’ and tells opposition to put ideas forward on hate speech laws. Follow the latest updates live From criminalising hatred with…
Randa Abdel-Fattah speaks to Nour Haydar about the Adelaide festival – podcast
A week after the Adelaide festival disinvited Palestinian Australian writer Randa Abdel-Fattah from its writers’ week, organisers have issued a complete and unreserved apology. The South Australian event collapsed after…
Has Joe Rogan fully soured on Trump’s presidency?
With a huge audience and serving as an avatar for millions of centrist Americans, Rogan compares ICE raids to Gestapo Joe Rogan’s comparison of US immigration raids to Gestapo operations,…
The problem with Australian men? They simply don’t know how to flirt | Louis Hanson
Call it tall poppy syndrome or the nonchalant olympics, but we’ve grown accustomed to an almost nonexistent form of flirting from the local male species A few months ago, I…
The secret is out: how Australian Open helped usher in three-week slam festivals
Grand slam qualifying used to be an oasis for tennis hipsters but a game of one upmanship between the Australian and US Opens has set the standard for spectacular lead-in…
War of words overshadows dumped author’s apology
A Palestinian-Australian academic, whose removal from a prestigious writers’ festival sparked a national furore, has said her words continue to be mischaracterised and used against her despite being invited back…