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Guardrails or ‘world leader’: How Anthony Albanese responds to OpenAI’s hack

Today we’re going international to talk about Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s trip to New York for the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly. It’s been

OpenAI's hack of an Australian government website

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has launched a taskforce to investigate how AI apparently went rogue hacked into a portal belonging to one of Australia’s major healthcare

Inside the trial of Beau Lamarre-Condon

You might remember this case from Sydney in the summer of 2024 – the alleged double murder of TV presenter Jesse Baird and his boyfriend Luke Davies. Baird was a televisi

Trump and Zelensky meet again, and this time, Zelensky has the cards

The Republican Party is under enormous pressure, six weeks out from the midterm elections, with a new poll finding that most voters believe US President Donald Trump has

The surprising prediction for Australia in 40 years

What will our future look like 40 years from now? How, in a world growing in complexity, will we be faring economically and otherwise?Ahead of the release of the governme

The new terror stalking Ukraine

For many Ukrainians, daily life continues four years and six months since Russia’s full-scale invasion. But something has shifted in the war recently, as Europe correspon

Introducing Virginia: Our latest investigative podcast

Today we're sharing the first episode of Virginia – The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald's latest investigative podcast on Jeffrey Epstein's most prominent victim.Walkle

Migration plan revealed: Who comes, who leaves and what it all means

Today we’re hot off the press, to use an old newsroom cliche, to talk about the federal government’s new plan for migration. Immigration Minister Tony Burke gave a speech

Could Australia join the European Union?

When Donald Trump announced his so-called Liberation Day tariffs in April last year, one question seemed to dominate: which country would suffer the most economic pain?

Bestselling author Caitlin Moran on how to have hope when Trump and the world drives you 'crackers"

For nearly 35 years, hundreds of thousands of readers around the world have turned to Caitlin Moran for laughter and her signature nouse about how to cope with life's wor

One Nation has revealed its migration policy

Pauline Hanson has finally announced her party’s migration policy, after weeks in which various One Nation MPs publicly contradicted one another on the plan. Today, hea

Australia’s ‘Moneyball’: Finding the next big thing in footy

Finals in Australia’s major sporting codes are in full swing. And six weeks after the AFL grand final is played, the other biggest show of the year - the men’s, and wom

Superannuation and the One Nation press conference that had everyone watching

This week we’re joining the dots between two different stories: the fight over superannuation, and the colourful past of One Nation’s leader in Victoria, Warren Pickering

From 9/11 to Donald Trump: Why Australia can’t afford to abandon the US

This week marks twenty-five years since the United States suffered a terrorist attack that was predicted to change the world forever. Today, international and political

Germany had ruled out extremist parties. Then came this election win

A far-right party in Germany has just trounced its rivals in a state election – the closest such a party has come to holding power in a German state since World War II.

Government v the internet: Albanese eyes algorithm ‘off switch’

It’s the Australian government versus big tech yet again in parliament this week, with Labor planning to introduce a bill that would tackle online harm and hand back cont

Sunscreen wars: The Ultra Violette scandal

It was a dramatic fall from grace for a brand that had taken the world by storm by making sunscreen sexy, with influencers around the globe extolling how flawlessly the p

What One Nation’s WA win means, and Hanson’s incitement claim

In this week’s episode, we dissect Labor’s brutal loss to One Nation in a supposedly safe seat in Western Australia. Does this byelection really signify, as victor Luke

Mushroom murder appeal: The jury issue that could decide Erin Patterson's fate

In terms of criminal jury trials, what unfolded in the infamous death cap mushroom case was unique.Because when the jury was locked away from the outside world to conside

Anna Wintour's biographer Amy Odell on John Galliano's Met cancellation

Fashion designer John Galliano announced yesterday that he would step away from being honoured with a retrospective at next year’s illustrious Met Gala, the so-called Osc