How Australia handled AI in 2025

Welcome back to Neural Notes, a weekly column where I look at how AI is affecting Australia. In this edition: how Australia’s AI story in 2025 was defined less by product drops... Read more »

Privatised meat inspections could increase costs, reduce flexibility – report

A protest against the plan for meat inspection privatisation took place outside Parliament. Photo: RNZ / Samuel Rillstone A proposal to partially privatise meat inspections will actually increase costs, reduce flexibility and... Read more »

Summer pool party essentials | PerthNow

Nothing beats gathering your friends and family for a splash-filled, sun-soaked pool party during summer. And it becomes all the more important to have the right essentials to set the mood and... Read more »

Year 12 high achievers in Canberra share ATAR wins for 2026 | The Canberra Times

Some of Canberra’s high achieving students in 2026, clockwise, Anastasia Perkovic, Ishita Gupta, Michael Thow and Alex Kwiatkowski. Pictures by Keegan Carroll and supplied Students from across Canberra have received ATAR results... Read more »

I have never earned more money, but I’ve never felt more broke

Cost-of-living spikes are pushing our living standards down. Watch Insight episode Tough Time$ on SBS On Demand.There have been many nights in recent years when I’d pull into our driveway at 11pm... Read more »

Sydney rabbi’s defiant message after 15 innocent people were gunned down in Bondi

Australia’s Jewish community is in collective mourning. The Bondi Beach mass shooting, which left 15 innocent people dead, is their worst fear realised after years of antisemitic attacks across the country. People... Read more »

John Howard blasts Anthony Albanese, Penny Wong over antisemitism in Australia; calls Australia gun law changes a ‘diversion’

“I am not here to point fingers,” Maimon said. “I am here to embrace, I am here to hug the community, the Australian citizens that care about life here in Australia, and... Read more »

Nick Reiner’s struggles with drugs left his parents ‘desperate’

He recalled that Michele Reiner had said a few years ago of her son’s struggles: “We’ve tried everything. We don’t know what else to do.” Loading When Nick Reiner was first sent... Read more »

Ukraine peace deal could be presented to Russia within days: Zelenskyy

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says a deal aimed at ending Russia’s near four-year-old invasion could be finalised with the US and then presented to Russia within days. Speaking to reporters after hours... Read more »

Coalition launches antisemitism taskforce after Bondi terror attack

The Coalition has launched an antisemitism, extremism and counterterrorism taskforce in the wake of the Bondi attack, as pressure mounts on Anthony Albanese to implement his special envoy’s report “in full”. Opposition... Read more »