Prime Minister Anthony Albanese delivering a speech on AI at the University of Sydney.

‘Create jobs,not replace them’:PM flags crackdown on data centres and AI copyright

As One Nation starts to campaign against data centres,Albanese pledged to “ensure data centres do not increase power prices for Australians”.

  • Paul Sakkal

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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Pope Leo XIV.
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For the true believers:Albanese echoes Pope Leo in his own AI missive

As technology threatens to upend life as we know it,Albanese came with a message of reassurance and calm,on a mission to lower the collective heart rate.

  • Matthew Knott
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese will announce world-first standards on artificial intelligence.

Albanese in charge of AI revolution as 200 experts release dire warning

The prime minister will emphasise the technology’s “pivotal” role in resuscitating productivity and warn of extremists and hostile states using it “to spread disinformation that targets democracies”.

  • Paul Sakkal
A majority of Australians think that the nation’s net migration and permanent migration levels are too high.

Budget loses billions,nation in deeper debt:The cost of cutting migration

Plans to cut migration further would hit the budget’s bottom line – forcing One Nation and the Coalition to cut spending or raise taxes elsewhere according to independent costings.

  • Natassia Chrysanthos
Treasurer Jim Chalmers and Prime Minister Anthony Albanese selling the budget in May. The budget is on track to be in surplus two years earlier than originally forecast.

The tax bill for working Australians is in the mail – and it’s growing

The May budget will improve the nation’s finances over the coming decade. But surpluses will be built on the backs of working Australians.

  • Shane Wright
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the MCG on Friday.

Australia’s relationship with India grows ever closer despite one key divergence

The affection between Anthony Albanese and Narendra Modi mirrors the ever-strengthening ties between the countries even as India heads in an illiberal direction.

  • Peter Hartcher
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese.

PM readies major AI announcement,but deadlock remains on billion-dollar tech tussle

As One Nation and residents groups ramp up campaigns against data centres,the prime minister will deliver a speech on Wednesday,titled AI in Australia’s interests.

  • Paul Sakkal
The proportion of people who believe house prices need to fall is growing.

A growing majority say house prices have to fall. Even owners

It was the unwritten rule of Australian politics – house prices must rise. But a new poll shows that’s no longer how everyone thinks.

  • Shane Wright

Our working lives are about to change. Time,and the PM,will tell if we’re better off

The Albanese government showed it is willing to redistribute money. Will it take on the task of redistributing time as well?

  • Sean Kelly
A GetUp protest interrupted Pauline Hanson’s speech at the National Press Club last week.

Help or hindrance? GetUp’s gamble on fighting One Nation

Dismissed by critics as a mere stunt,the activist group’s viral prank has galvanised its network for a long-term campaign against Pauline Hanson’s party.

  • Rob Harris