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Senior public servants think GenAI will boost productivity โ but are worried about the risks
Should GenAI be rapidly rolled out to improve public service policymaking and delivery? Or is a more cautious approach needed to rebuild trust after Robodebt?
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:
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People with severe mental illness are waiting for days in hospital EDs. Hereโs how we can do better
Hospitalsare expensive and often traumatic places to provide mental health care.
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:Curious Kids: can spiders swim?
Most spiders donโt swim by choice. But they have clever tricks to survive in water when they need to.
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:Hannah Kentโs new memoir is a love letter to Iceland and an โenthrallingโ murderer
In Always Home, Always Homesick, Hannah Kent reveals how Iceland defines and divides her identity as a writer.
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:โThat was rudeโ: why the new Broadway musical Death Becomes Her was ripe for TikTok memes
Broadway fans love a good meme โ and with Death Becomes Her they have a truly viral hit.
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:A glimpse of hope, then another Aboriginal death in custody: โgrief-strickenโ campaigners mourn lack of progress
In 2020 tens of thousands of people defied Covid restrictions to march in support of the families of Indigenous Australians who have died in custody, as part of the global Black Lives Matter movement. Five years on, the same families face fresh griefWarning: this article contains names and images of Indigenous Australians who have diedGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe supermarket is silent...
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:Cameron doubts heโll ever reach $3m in super. So how do young people feel about Laborโs plan?
Critics predict younger generations will shoulder a bigger tax burden, but some of those likely to be affected see it more as โrebalancing the scalesโGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastCameron Upton has been working since he turned 16, and at 22 has just $4,000.92 in his superannuation account.The Canberra university student believes there is little chance his account will ever breach the $3m...
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:65,000 Years: A Short History of Australian Art โ a grand, disturbing and provocative exhibition
Melbourneโs Potter Museum has reopened with a bold celebration of thousands of years of Indigenous art that forcefully declares โthis is not an ethnographic collection โ itโs artโGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailThe opening exhibition at the University of Melbourneโs newly refurbished Potter Museum of Art has been given a darkly ironic and deliberately provocative title: 65,000 Years: A Short History of...
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:Slut-shamed and bullied by students: why teachers are quitting - podcast
An alarming cultural shift is happening in Australian classrooms, as teachers report an increase in bullying and misogynistic and violent behaviour from their students.Education reporter Caitlin Cassidy talks to Reged Ahmad about the teachers speaking out about why they are leaving the professionRead more: Continue reading...
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:Australiaโs lowest paid workers just got a 3.5% wage increase. Their next boost could be even better
Even with this increase, Australiaโs lowest paid employees will not be earning as much in real terms as they did before the inflationary surge of 2021-2022.
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:Complaints from cricket fans as Ashes tickets go on sale โ as it happened
This blog is now closedAnthony Albanese shrugs off Dorinda Coxโs sharp criticism of Labor before party switchGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastSocial housing waitlists grew by 26,000 households in six-year periodIn the six years to 2022, Australiaโs social housing waitlists grew by more than 26,000 households, while the number of households able to get into social housing fell by 6,400,...
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:Dorinda Coxโs switch to Labor shows how Albanese has reshaped Australian politics
Not content with consigning the Coalition to a regional rump, PM also raises questions for the Greens with latest coupSee our full coverage of the Australian electionGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastNot content with turfing rising star Greens out of their Queensland stronghold, and unseating party leader Adam Bandt for good measure, Anthony Albanese is now thinning the numbers of his political...
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:Whatโs a โStrombolian eruptionโ? A volcanologist explains what happened at Mount Etna
On an explosiveness scale from Hawaii to Vesuvius, the latest from Mount Etna was relatively mild.
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:Whatโs a โStrombolian eruption?โ A volcanologist explains what happened at Mount Etna
On an explosiveness scale from Hawaii to Vesuvius, the latest from Mount Etna was relatively mild.
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:Your Say: week beginning June 2
Superannuation changes, an extension of a major gas project and reading on the toilet: an edited selection of your feedback on our stories.
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:Australia must resist US bullying to increase its military spending | Allan Behm
Itโs up to Anthony Albanese to decide Australiaโs budget priorities โ rather than allowing us to get sucked into a contest between US and ChinaGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe US secretary of defense, Pete Hegseth, may not be the sharpest tool in President Trumpโs tool kit. But, in the great American tradition, he is a top hustler. In an arrogant display that would have won Trumpโs...
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:The Queensland government is cancelling renewable energy projects. Can the state still reach net zero?
Queenslandโs new government has set about scrapping clean energy projects. But itโs shaping up as a go-slow period, not a blanket ban.
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:1 in 3 men report using intimate partner violence. Hereโs how we can better protect women โ and help men
The results of a landmark longitudinal study into domestic violence paint a grim picture, but they also point to key solutions, especially before men offend.
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:Anthony Albanese shrugs off Dorinda Coxโs sharp criticism of Labor before party switch
PM welcomes former Greens senator to party room, despite her recent claims that Labor was โheld to ransomโ by coal and gasAustralia news live: latest politics updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAnthony Albanese has brushed off Dorinda Coxโs recent strong criticism of the Labor government โ of which she is now a member โ claiming the senator made the shock party switch because the Greens...
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:โUnfair and unreasonableโ โ report finds $1.9 billion in unpaid child support in system rife with financial abuse
A damning report by the Commonwealth Ombudsman has found one third of complainants believe the child support system has become โweaponisedโ by abusive ex-partners.
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:Why do some people need less sleep than others? A gene variation could have something to do with it
A small proportion of people can do well on only a few hours of sleep a night. Hereโs why that might be.
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:Censorship into art: why Iranian director Jafar Panahiโs subversive stories are getting the worldโs attention
Panahi received the 2025 Palme d'Or, the highest honour at the Cannes Film Festival. Heโs also the focus of the 2025 Sydney Film Festival retrospective.
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:Why do our pupils dilate when weโre aroused? Anatomy experts explain
In romance novels and online advice columns, enlarged pupils are commonly enlisted as imagery to indicate sexual arousal and attraction. So, whatโs the science say?
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:As government cuts bite, public service unions can use โsoft powerโ as well as strikes to win support
For the public service, strikes are generally a last resort. But there are other sources of union power โ in particular, deep connections to the voting public.
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:In her memoir, Jacinda Ardern shows a โdifferent kind of powerโ is possible โ but also has its limits
Her new book weaves an authentically retold personal story with high political drama. But Ardern misses an opportunity to reflect more deeply on her time in power.
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:Googleโs SynthID is the latest tool for catching AI-made content. What is AI โwatermarkingโ and does it work?
AI watermarks are supposed to help us tell if content is real or generated. But they dramatically vary in effectiveness.
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:What parents and youth athletes can do to protect against abuse in sport
The line between abuse and acceptable behaviour is blurred in many sports, so parents and youth athletes must be vigilant.
Published on: June 03, 2025 | Source:King of the Hill voice actor shot dead in Texas
The 59-year-old's husband Tristan Kern de Gonzales alleged the couple had been victims of homophobic abuse.
Published on: June 02, 2025 | Source:Live: Erin Patterson to return to the witness stand at her murder trial
Erin Patterson is expected to continue giving evidence for a second day in her triple murder trial. She's accused of murdering three relatives by serving them a meal that contained death cap mushrooms. Follow the trial live.
Published on: June 02, 2025 | Source:Woman's stubborn cough turns out to be deadly disease
A Queensland childhood educator says pushing her doctor for further testing saved her life when she struggled to shake what she thought was a persistent flu.
Published on: June 02, 2025 | Source:New doco lets us eavesdrop on John and Yoko's conversations in the 70s
One To One: John & Yoko takes us inside the lives of the famous couple as they agitate for revolution in their new home city of New York.
Published on: June 02, 2025 | Source:New WA mine prompts fears for historic rock tunnel
A WA mayor says a new iron ore mine could impact his community's groundwater and wipe out a tourist attraction.
Published on: June 02, 2025 | Source:'Emotions can run high': Verstappen addresses Russell incident
Max Verstappen stops short of apologising for an incident involving George Russell at the Barcelona Grand Prix.
Published on: June 02, 2025 | Source:Man out for dinner in city when he was critically hurt in e-scooter crash
Neighbours describe a man who was critically injured when he was hit by an e-scooter, allegedly being ridden by a woman under the influence of alcohol in Perth, as a "kind and gentle" soul.
Published on: June 02, 2025 | Source:ASIC accuses comparison site of promoting single insurer
ASIC is suing insurance comparison provider Choosi for allegedly accepting $61 million in commissions to solely advertise services from one insurance company, Hannover.
Published on: June 02, 2025 | Source: