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Chilling effects of Trump’s war on free speech extend far beyond campus walls – and that’s the point
A persistent government strategy to sow fear through punitive measures has corroded freedom and democracy.
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Australia’s Combat Antisemitism Movement keeps slaying social cohesion
As the Bondi Royal Commission continues, one major campaigner against antisemitism demonstrates its vehement opposition to social cohesion. Wendy Bacon reports for Michael West Media. ANALYSIS: By Wendy Bacon Sheina Gutnick, whose father Reuben Morrison was killed in the Bondi Massacre, was the first witness at the Royal Commission into Antisemitism and Social Cohesion. She
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From gait analysis to fingerprint theft, how worried should we be about the latest advances in biometric technology?
You can wear a mask, pull up a hood, avoid looking at a camera – but you cannot easily change how you walk.
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Should AIs be required to report a human user contemplating violence?
Human therapists have a legal duty to warn authorities and potential targets when patients say they plan to harm someone. The same can – in theory – be required of AI chatbots .
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Pope Leo XIV compares AI to the Industrial Revolution – as new alternatives to big AI firms take shape
Leo XIV released his first encyclical on the 135th anniversary of Rerum Novarum, the 1891 papal document on the upheavals of the Industrial Revolution.
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How natural selection helps design antennas, cancer treatments and adhesives
When people harness the logic of natural selection, they can often find efficient and effective ways to solve complex problems.
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Black detainees twice as likely as white detainees to be strip-searched in police custody – new study
Even after accounting for other factors, black detainees remained more than twice as likely to be strip-searched as their white counterparts.
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Pope Leo warns of AI’s risks to humanity in his first encyclical
The pope has warned that AI is never truly neutral: it reflects the society that made it. He has called for ethical oversight – and protecting workers.
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This election year budget is a political tightrope walk for Willis and National
National hasn’t achieved two of its three big fiscal policy promises from the previous election. Thursday’s budget will be a hard sell.
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In a tight NZ budget, will money go where it’s needed most – or to political priorities?
Higher inflation, tighter operating allowances and rising geopolitical uncertainty are turning this year’s budget into a test of national priorities.
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How community groups, activists and local media turned Camden into a model of police reform
Camden, New Jersey’s homicide rate in 2025 was four times the national average – still high, but a marked change from when it was 18 times the national average in 2012.
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Three ways to avoid being fooled by AI slop
Fact-checking can take hours or days while fakes can be created in seconds. So, what do we do?