Coalition’s 'race to the bottom on migration' and former immigration official answers your questions
It's been a year since Liberal MP Andrew Hastie quit Sussan Ley's frontbench to speak his mind on migration. His decision fractured the Coal...
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Godlike worship of AI is happening, and the Pope is its greatest opponent
While the rest of us have been dreaming of the promise of AI to cure diseases, and fretting about the threat of robots overtaking humanity,...
Inside 'sandpapergate' – cricket's greatest scandal
Australians woke up on a Sunday morning in 2018 to extraordinary vision plastered across their television screens and mobile phones: Cameron...
The royals have a rich history of lawsuits, but Andrew’s action is different
There's been big news from the UK overnight, with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, launching legal action agains...
I was a teenage boy online. It took 13 minutes for the manosphere to come
According to new analysis, screen time could damage children more than being born into poverty. The findings from the University of Calgary...
Interest rates and Labor's spending, and the Greens look to Mamdani
Anthony Albanese is back from the United Nations in New York to a slump in his approval rating and more economic pain. On Tuesday, the Reser...
Did Trump offer arms to Xi Jinping? What happened on the White House tour
When the competing leaders of the world's two biggest economies gather for a summit, there's usually a lot to tussle over – military b...
Bogong moths are swarming homes, and their story is miraculous
If you live in a certain part of Australia, you have probably noticed them – big moths flying around, clinging to glass doors and gath...
Another interest rate hike? Experts say there are other ways to curb inflation
Interest rate hikes are stressing Australian mortgage holders across the country. But are higher rates the only way to get inflation down? O...
How real is Australia's immigration problem?
The past five decades have witnessed immigration on a scale the globe has never seen before, and countries around the world are convulsing w...
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 Nation...
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 o...
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 boyfrie...
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...
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...
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 E...
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 Min...
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 su...
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 abo...
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 ano...