Cancelling Crown’s licence would have sent a very clear message that no entity is too big to fail. The achievement of effective regulation, including effective protection for vulnerable people, remains some way off.
The technology to link human brains with computers is developing quickly – but the path ahead is full of challenges.
School-leavers want flexibility and gig work offers it. But how will that affect the economy?
Given its remit and membership, the inquiry is unlikely to break new ground – and has met fierce opposition even before starting its work.
Politicians have cynically used metaphor to imply meaning through language.
The leaders of Russia and China are skipping the G20 summit, but their absences – and rifts over the Ukraine war – will have a big influence on the proceedings.
We hear a lot about the negative impact of rate rises on mortgage repayments, while little is made of the benefits of high interest rates.
Although Michele Bullock has been with the bank for four decades, the past two have been in areas remote from interest rate setting, meaning she won’t feel compelled to defend the mistakes of the past.
The world’s collective failure to adequately address climate change alters “the rules of the parenting game”.
The budget’s back in surplus after 15 years, briefly, and there are measures to ease cost-of-living pressures, but can it tame inflation?
With the global shift in corporate sustainability, what will it take to ensure Indonesian businesses rise to the challenge?
Cities are starting to restore natural systems such as waterways, wetlands and bushland. But restoration on the scale these systems need to function properly calls for a rethink of urban planning.
In what is the first COP since Labor took office in May this year, there are positive signs of Australia picking up its game on climate policy.
On 1 November, Israelis will vote again, for the fifth time in less than four years. Recent polls predict either another hung parliament or a narrow victory for the Likud-led coalition.
Encouraging work abroad schemes could help Pacific Island nations to steer their way clear of crippling debt.
Some foreign officials promoting central bank digital currencies want to be able to track and limit transactions in real time, raising privacy concerns.
Taxing US$2.10 for a ton of emissions may not be enough to save the country from its climate crisis.
Think tank A New Approach claims the federal government spent more than $4 billion supporting the arts and culture in 2020 alone. Sadly for the arts, the figure is too good to be true.
The Reserve Bank head is optimistic about 2022, in part because COVID has loosened the government’s purse strings.
A five-million-year-old fossil that sat in a Melbourne museum for more than a century has rewritten the history of turtles in prehistoric Australia’s tropical climate.
Biometrics technology offers to cut the Gordian knot of passwords, usernames, PIN and QR codes, as well as passports and vaccine cards – but at what cost?
Five years after the pivotal Paris Climate Accords, a new report looks beyond the numbers to ask what’s really happening in key countries – including Australia.
If humans are programming artificial intelligence, are we stuck with the human biases that inadvertently work their way into AI systems?
The Citarum River in Indonesia is the focus of a revitalisation project, and a Monash University cross-faculty team has been called on to help make it happen.
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