SpaceX already sells sovereignty to Australia through services supplied by its Starlink division. “Designed, owned and ...

Barry Jones, a Hawke government science minister, published Sleepers Wake!, his book about the social and economic impacts of ...

Artificial intelligence is everywhere now. And everywhere it appears, it raises questions. Artists and writers fear it will trawl their work, produce derivative products and make their creativity ...

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Recently I came by chance upon some photographs of Mary Cook, wife of Joseph Cook, prime minister of Australia for fifteen months in 1913 and 1914. Sir Joseph is one of Australia’s least-known prime ...

Financial Times reporter Sarah O’Connor confesses to having once been a techno-optimist, confident in technology’s power to automate away dangerous, dirty and boring work. Her new book, We Are Not ...

She was a novelist and journalist, a member of the Algonquin Roundtable, a pal of Hemingway’s, and for half a century the New Yorker’s Paris correspondent. In the latter guise, she moulded the ...

The closing submissions of counsel assisting any judicial inquiry or royal commission often give a clue to the eventual findings, and so it has been with the NSW Supreme Court’s inquiry into the ...

The noisy, all-around-us, ceaselessly moving media environment we inhabit today prevents us from remembering how things once were. It would be easy, for example, to think that no one has shot ...

When the International Booker Prize committee awarded this year’s prize to Yang Shuang-zi’s Taiwan Travelogue it continued a laudable tradition of diversity. In the eleven years since its relaunch in ...

The partnership of Alfred Hitchcock and that most Hitchcockian of composers, Bernard Herrmann, is notable for so many things that it’s easy to miss how they worked together to manipulate our ...