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Hannah Thomas’ assault is a transparent case of police brutality, and there should be a proper and arms-length investigation of how NSW police colluded to charge her with fabricated evidence www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Tim Wilson is battling Labor’s capital gains tax changes. But in his own book he argues for going even further | Judith Brett

Guess what enjoys ASIO’s top ‘Zone 3’ protection? This massive data centre in a Melbourne suburb www.crikey.com.au/2026/06/11/m...

They see this as winning at their game. They don’t want soft power. They want to be feared

The Greens have a plan to permanently lower your energy bills by making it easier for everyone to access cheap renewables $1500 for upgrades like solar panels, electric hot water, or insulation - free energy assessments for renters - and fast-tracking plug-in solar www.instagram.com/p/DZbYrgaPHuI/

Interesting how data centre industry tells everyone it will be powered by renewable energy. But as soon as there's talk of *requiring* that, the goalposts shift. Belinda Dennett CEO of Datacentres Australia tries to argue renewables take too long to build www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

State admits former Greens candidate entitled to damages and agrees to pay medical costs, but denies malicious prosecution and malfeasance in public office

Do you know of studies that actually evaluate use of LLMs in the public sector or other kinds of knowledge work? Teknologirådet in Norway just published a report evaluating their own use of LLMs, based on careful logs from 35 cases. teknologiradet.no/publication/...

Data centres are developing in Australia with remarkable pace, including on industrial estates in our capital cities' fringes. We went to check one out.

Fukuyama: We have reached the end of history. History: It's 2026, and an official branch of the Ukrainian armed forces is tweeting about how drone striking Andrew Tate while he's clout farming with the Russian military would be fun, but is sadly a war crime. Get bent old man.

"[NSW] has admitted that a police officer punched Hannah Thomas in the eye while holding a torch at a pro-Palestine protest – and it’s offered to pay her medical costs. Court documents seen by Guardian Australia reveal that the state has admitted to false imprisonment and battery[...]"

When's the last bus on your local route? On many routes the last service is too early to be useful to most people. Those that do run later are often infrequent, meaning a long wait from connecting trains. More services more often makes public transport easier to use, which gets more people on board.

Teknologirådet har gjennom 35 case dokumentert og vurdert bruk av KI i vårt eget arbeid med teknologivurdering, blant annet til kartlegging av eksperter og aktører, horisontskanning, utvikling av scen...

On paper, the shadow treasurer is thoughtful. In parliament, performative outrage overwhelms his thinking Tim Wilson has thrown himself into fighting the reduction of the capital gains tax discount in Labor’s budget, as well as the abolition of negative gearing on existing properties. But as Jim Chalmers pointed out in parliament, quoting from the shadow treasurer’s 2020 book The New Social Contract, these are changes he has advocated for himself. The book reads: Capital gains from appreciation of having and holding assets are taxed at half the applied rate, effectively entrenching the benefit of having and holding assets that can only exist if you are established. There is no intergenerational justice in such preferential arrangements. Favourable treatment should not be extended to income derived from the holding or investment of capital that is principally beneficial to established interests. Indeed such income should be treated consistently with the income derived from labour and the application of skills. There is a lack of intergenerational justice when those who have had the opportunity to hold (and do hold) the wealth of the nation are paying lower tax rates while having the most redistributed to them by the tax payer. We need to rediscover the place of justice within a liberal world view … that leaves neoliberalism behind. Continue reading...

State admits former Greens candidate entitled to damages and agrees to pay medical costs, but denies malicious prosecution and malfeasance in public office

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Assistant minister agrees concerns over resource usage are legitimate but argues Australia cannot ignore ‘consequential’ economic wave

There are ways one could have managed visa issues in advance and seized a soft power and public diplomacy win that comes from hosting the biggest event of the biggest sport in the world. To have not done this is, as it were, an own goal. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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Immigration authorities say the detentions of a Somali referee and two Iraqi national team members were part of routine vetting. But officials and fans in their homelands want an explanation.