Comment

To understand Australia’s approach to artificial intelligence, you have to understand the colonial mindset that enfeebles Australian politicians.

I don’t trust history. I don’t believe it. I don’t believe it is a source of truth. History has nothing to do with justice or healing.

A recent audit found it takes 23 minutes for a social media account mimicking a 16- to 18-year-old boy to be fed misogynistic content. These posts reframe everyday frustrations – rejection, loneliness, personal setbacks – as evidence of a system stacked against boys and men.

Dear readers, the last thing I would ask you to do is spend any more time reading commentary about a former host of a breakfast television program. Very few Australians watch the show, and the host – like all television ‘personalities’ – is an irrelevance. Speaking from experience, no one misses us when we go – and rightly so.

There was palpable relief in Labor ranks when the final sitting fortnight before the winter break saw the government, rather than Pauline Hanson, setting the agenda.

The American Empire is over and it has amounted to nothing. If I am generous, the so-called American century lasted barely 50 years, from 1945 to 1989, and now, as the nation celebrates its 250th anniversary on July 4, it is conceivable that the United States will not survive beyond this century. How fitting it marks its demise with a fistfight on the White House lawn.

The surest indication that Anthony Albanese knows he has a mighty challenge on his hands in stalling Pauline Hanson was the timing of his major childcare policy this week, announced on the day the One Nation leader gave her first speech to the National Press Club.

Since the announcement of AUKUS in September 2021, I have been a frequent critic. I couldn’t see any rational explanation for its undertaking or any benefit that would make Australia more secure. Then I had a revelation.

It is a global phenomenon that voters are looking for change. I have to ask, change to what? In this increasingly challenging world, on recent experience, it’s best to be careful what you wish for.