
Your robotic vacuum is a witness: What home robots mean for evidence, privacy and the law
Laws against surreptitiously recording someone extend to home devices like robot vacuums, but those recordings can still be used against you in court.
Independent Analysis and Reportage

Laws against surreptitiously recording someone extend to home devices like robot vacuums, but those recordings can still be used against you in court.

Facing an increasingly aggressive Russia and with equivocal commitment from the US, Nato faces a number of important challenges.

Having to move home and school can mean disrupting trusted adult relationships and the loss of access to established support.

From Hardy’s Wessex to Brontë country, literary tourists may be chasing places that never quite existed as they imagine them.

It might appear featureless, but one of the world’s largest limestone regions hides a remarkable underground world.

Ideally, experts should guide this debate. Unfortunately, they disagree too.

Recent events in Yemen could drag Saudi Arabia into the conflict.

The federal government will make it harder for international students to bring their families with them to Australia, among other changes.

The Nationals leader said he’ll do ‘whatever it takes’ to beat the Labor government – including not ruling out a move to the lower house before the next election.

Tony Burke was late to announce the government’s migration policy which will be wedged between those who think the changes don’t go far enough and critics who believe they’re draconian.

Sea urchins eat kelp – but new research shows their diets and relationships with kelp forests are more complex than commonly thought.

The long awaited overhaul of the migration system comes as new figures show Net Overseas Migration continuing to decline.