In the tradition of the late, great Mungo MacCallum, LR tries to infuse his puzzles with humour, wordplay and poetry to give readers plenty of “Aha!” moments. They will be accessible, but always with ...

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A damning judgement of ‘highhandedness or cynical disregard’ by the Medicare watchdog has established a new front for civil litigation of public servants named in the robodebt royal commission.

Marjon Mossammaparast is a poet born in Iran. Her first collection of poetry, That Sight, won the 2019 Mary Gilmore Award. And to Ecstasy was shortlisted for the 2023 Kenneth Slessor Poetry Award.

OpenAI founder Sam Altman is building a trillion-dollar enterprise that feeds on vast resources of water, energy and intellectual property – and may never turn a profit.

One Nation was the first Australian political party to register a website. Now, the party is poised to exploit AI ‘slopaganda’ in the 2028 election campaign.

In a week of climate-driven bushfires and flooding, the author finds solace in explorations of both human ingenuity and the science of existence.

The more things change, the more they stay the same. While the aphorism might be well known, the fact that it was penned by a critic is less recognised. It’s relevant, as I want to use the aphorism to ...

After last Sunday’s astonishing ascent of the 508-metre Taipei 101 tower, Alex Honnold laid claim to being not only the world’s best free climber but also one of history’s greatest athletes.

Small towns can be both the most joyful places to grow up in – and the most stifling. George Kemp deftly captures this paradox early in Soft Serve when he describes the novel’s setting as “a place ...

To read Ender Başkan’s debut poetry collection, Two Hundred Million Musketeers, is to perceive across generations. Purling in streams of braided narrative – 96 pages without a stanza break – it flows ...

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