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2026-10-12 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics

‘Roman amphitheatre stuff’: Big tech, media warned over livestreamed US execution

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2026-09-21 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics

Albanese takes climate warning to New York, but fossil fuel experts test credibility

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2026-10-21 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics

‘Don’t let violence win’: McGowan’s plea as Haines fights for life

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2026-09-23 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Health

OpenAI agent breached Medicare, Albanese reveals

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2026-09-21 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics

Australia joins call for AI safeguards amid warnings of out-of-control risks

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2026-09-20 · The Sydney Morning Herald · Politics

Albo wanders in to Tim Apple’s place to fix the internet

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2026-09-17 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 The proposed measure, announced in May’s budget, would have replaced the current system requiring veterans to return to a GP for a new referral after every 12 allied health visits. assertive

2026-09-17 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Australia will put technology and online safety at the heart of its campaign for a seat on the United Nations Security Council as Anthony Albanese prepares to argue that cyberattacks, artificial intelligence and digital threats are becoming matters of international peace and security. assertive

2026-09-17 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Assistant Minister for Customs Julian Hill said the government would use every tool and power available to disrupt criminal networks and stop illegal goods from entering Australia. assertive

2026-09-19 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Anthony Albanese has left the door open to an opt-out copyright regime for artificial intelligence companies, despite warnings from Australian writers, artists and other creators that such a system would undermine fundamental copyright protections. assertive

2026-09-20 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 The journalists could look, but they could not record. assertive

2026-09-20 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Australia will state its case for a seat at the world’s most powerful diplomatic table, with Anthony Albanese pitching the country as a middle power capable of helping write the rules for artificial intelligence as the US and China race for technological dominance. assertive

2026-09-20 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 McKenna, who was named in US court documents this year as the “driving force” behind the plan to reshape Rupert Murdoch’s family trust and cement his eldest son’s control of the News Corp and Fox Corporation empire, will take up the senior diplomatic posting after a career spanning corporate Australia and government boards. assertive

2026-09-21 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Whether that strategy succeeds may determine more than GetUp’s own future. assertive

2026-09-21 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 The world can no longer rely on adapting to escalating climate catastrophes, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will warn as he opens Climate Week in New York with a warning that Australia is heading into a summer of extreme heat, bushfires and floods. assertive

2026-09-21 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Australia has joined a call for international safeguards on artificial intelligence amid warnings from scientists and industry executives that the rapid development of powerful systems could outpace governments’ ability to control emerging risks. mixed

2026-09-23 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Anthony Albanese will declare the post-1945 international order “no longer fit for purpose” and warn that Australia must help shape what replaces it as growing strategic competition between the United States and China transforms the Indo-Pacific. assertive

2026-09-23 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Australia was among 22 signatories calling for new international safeguards on AI at the United Nations on Monday, amid warnings from scientists and industry executives that the rapid development of powerful systems could outpace governments’ ability to control emerging risks. assertive

2026-09-25 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 “We will continue to speak out against actions that damage that prospect of peace, including illegal settlements in the West Bank,” he said. assertive

2026-09-25 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Urquhart would later describe Lie as “a suspicious and insecure man with a hair-trigger temper”, someone who “seemed to be out of his depth in a complex and very public job”. assertive

2026-09-26 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 He loves sitting down with other leaders, finding common ground or passions and building relationships that might be useful later. assertive

2026-10-01 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Lawyers who lodge visa applications that they know have little chance of success will face tougher scrutiny under a federal crackdown on misconduct in Australia’s migration system. assertive

2026-10-04 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Treasurer Jim Chalmers has signalled Labor would run a “pretty tight ship” in its mid-year budget update, again warning a spike in bond yields will add billions of dollars to the federal budget and is likely to rule out significant new cost-of-living relief. assertive

2026-10-04 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 The Commonwealth will take its total investment in Queensland’s illicit tobacco crackdown beyond $18 million, with data showing legal tobacco sales remained 40 to 45 per cent above baseline levels for six months after tougher enforcement powers came into effect. Assistant Minister for Customs Julian Hill said the retail data provided to the Office of the Illicit Tobacco and E-cigarette Commissioner showed that sustained street-level enforcement could disrupt illegal tobacco markets and push consumers back towards legitimate retailers. assertive

2026-10-06 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 The South Australian senator used her podcast to break her silence on last week’s bruising leadership contest, saying she had been disappointed to lose but would not be “salty” or allow the setback to hold her back. assertive

2026-10-06 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Funding for the digital directory was axed in May’s budget, ending on June 30, without a clear explanation from the government, despite the service recording its highest number of searches in its 10-year history in the past financial year. mixed

2026-10-07 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 The earlier grants were made through programs where local MPs could nominate organisations for funding and were classified as “closed, non-competitive”. assertive

2026-10-12 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 The Pentagon announced last week that the execution of Nidal Malik Hasan, convicted of killing 13 people at a military base at Fort Hood in Texas in 2009, would be livestreamed on December 3. assertive

2026-10-12 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 “We can’t tolerate 12 or 18 months of will-he-or-won’t-he.” assertive

2026-10-14 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 The findings will intensify pressure on federal and state governments – the majority of them Labor – to overhaul rural health funding, with the National Rural Health Alliance warning that Medicare’s traditional reliance on payments for individual consultations cannot sustain services in communities with small populations, higher operating costs and further workforce shortages. assertive

2026-10-16 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Jim Chalmers knows the government is under the pump and he says Labor must up its game to battle inflation, the unintended consequences of its May budget and keep voters’ trust through a painful period of interest rate rises. assertive

2026-10-17 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Artificial intelligence could become a new weapon in the fight against Australia’s burgeoning fox population, as technology is developed to identify the invasive predators and deliver poison while sparing native wildlife. assertive

2026-10-18 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 A delegation of frontline workers and people with lived experience of homelessness, family violence and financial hardship will travel to Canberra during the next parliamentary sitting week to press the case directly with politicians. assertive

2026-10-21 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 She said many of those who had helped elect Haines were struggling to comprehend how the democratic process they had worked to strengthen could become the target of such violence. assertive

2026-10-28 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 A damning new report prepared for the Albanese government reveals almost two-thirds of homelessness providers are turning away desperate Australians they would once have helped, with some rejecting as many people as they take in. assertive

2026-10-29 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 “Some commanders were alert to this data and rumours that accompanied it while others were not, which may suggest an abandonment of curiosity,” the report found. assertive

2026-11-01 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 Finance Minister Katy Gallagher has refused to guarantee Labor will cut more than it spends in the upcoming budget update, despite warning that mounting pressures are forcing the government to examine every program ahead of a likely interest rate rise. assertive

2026-11-01 · The Sydney Morning Herald

🔮 The report, from Strategic Analysis Australia, challenges lobbying by companies including OpenAI and Anthropic, which have warned they will not train their most advanced AI models in Australia unless copyright protections are relaxed. assertive