"We read less, but consume more. The visual format of that consumption allows for increasing misinformation and disinformation thanks to AI. Videos and images of candidates can look real, even if they aren’t," writes ANDREW HUGHES.
"To be credible, the ACT Government has to stop its obfuscation and commission an independent assessment to evaluate if bus rapid transport could deliver the benefits of light rail at lower cost," writes planning columnist MIKE QUIRK.
AI health tools can inherit the biases of the data and assumptions behind them. MAHIMA KALLA and NOUSHIN NAZARIAN explain why tackling the problem needs to begin before a single line of code is written.
Australia's aged care, child care and disability services are increasingly run as businesses, but at what cost? GABRIELLE MEAGHER examines why the market model is failing those who depend on care.
Paramount has now completed its $A160 billion acquisition of Warner Bros Discovery. While it could be some time coming, it’s clear a major shake up to the streaming landscape is in the pipeline," writes streaming columnist NICK OVERALL.
"Tissues of lies peddled without shame. No tissues for the tears of the damaged kids." HUGH SELBY calls out the ACT Government's new Youth Justice Strategic Plan for what it is: "A deliberate mirage, intended to deceive."
Cartoonist PAUL DORIN asks: was it a dirt file on Helen Haines from the Mr Albanese's office? The PM says no.
Australia's first new international airport in 30 years is ready to take flight but now shoulders the weight of great economic promises built around it, reports MAX ALDRED.
With soil warming, it’s time to plant tomatoes, capsicums, cucumbers and other summer vegetables for a productive harvest, writes gardening columnist JACKIE WARBURTON.
As the Jewish community mourns the victims of the Bondi Beach terror attack Israel's ambassador has visited the site, as Australia considers tighter gun laws.
Mushroom cook Erin Patterson intentionally poisoned four members of her estranged husband's family, a jury has found after a week of deliberations.
A coroner has found the death of a 19-year-old Warlpiri-Luritja man in a remote community was avoidable, and the former police officer who shot him was racist.
NSW Premier Chris Minns says women were targeted in the Bondi Junction mass stabbing but lengthy inquiries to come may never conclusively find a motive.
Canberra have revoked their tabled contract offer to Hudson Young, confirmed by the Raiders as "the largest contract offer in the club's history".
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Canberra have revoked their tabled contract offer to Hudson Young, confirmed by the Raiders as "the largest contract offer in the club's history".
"There are some ovals in the Belconnen area that are surrounded by capeweed and in places the weed is now growing on the oval," writes reader RON ROBERTSON, of Scullin.
"We read less, but consume more. The visual format of that consumption allows for increasing misinformation and disinformation thanks to AI. Videos and images of candidates can look real, even if they aren’t," writes ANDREW HUGHES.
Four men have been arrested and 13 firearms seized during a week-long police crackdown on illegal weapons across Canberra.
Savings of $31 billion earmarked by the federal opposition would be used to fund the coalition's plan to index income tax brackets.
Public servants copping abuse when footage of them is posted online cannot get video of them removed from social media, a senior official says.
MPs from across the political divide have paid tribute to Helen Haines as the independent recovers in hospital from an alleged attack outside her office.
Construction has begun on Canberra's new recycling facility at Hume, but the ACT Greens have criticised the government's failure to include soft plastics recycling in the project.
Access to subsidised treatment of uncomplicated urinary tract infections and hormonal contraceptives will be expanded.
"To be credible, the ACT Government has to stop its obfuscation and commission an independent assessment to evaluate if bus rapid transport could deliver the benefits of light rail at lower cost," writes planning columnist MIKE QUIRK.
Cartoonist PAUL DORIN asks: was it a dirt file on Helen Haines from the Mr Albanese's office? The PM says no.
Australia's aged care, child care and disability services are increasingly run as businesses, but at what cost? GABRIELLE MEAGHER examines why the market model is failing those who depend on care.
"Tissues of lies peddled without shame. No tissues for the tears of the damaged kids." HUGH SELBY calls out the ACT Government's new Youth Justice Strategic Plan for what it is: "A deliberate mirage, intended to deceive."
It's cup time, but cartoonist PAUL DORIN says his money's not on any of these these prospects.
"Purists will tell you the word 'decimate' dates back to the Roman practice of killing one in 10, but in common usage it just means 'devastate'. Whimsy columnist CLIVE WILLIAMS shares some words where their meanings have changed.
"Some folks never learn to read the room… they hear someone’s pain that reflects their experience and say to the woman weeping at her miscarriage, 'that’s nothing, I had six of them'," writes Kindness columnist ANTONIO DI DIO.
Seriously, buying food is getting that bad, says cartoonist PAUL DORIN.
Letter writer and new Mawson resident DAVID ROBERTSON has written three times to his local MP David Smith after being "badly burned by the housing market’s budget reaction". But to no replies from the Member for Bean.
Canberra needs more homes and a government that stops getting in the way, says Canberra Liberals Leader MARK PARTON.
"Those who want to froth about the inadequacy of this sentence would do well to note that there is no rehabilitation in our ACT prison system. That is the fault of the current ACT Government," writes legal affairs columnist HUGH SELBY.
The Australian Dance Party, alongside sustainable fashion designer Kelli Donovan, will explore the connections between fashion, activism, performance and circular design in Clothing the Loop, on November 6 and 7, reports HELEN MUSA.
CAPO, the Capital Arts Patrons’ Organisation, is preparing to distribute more than $52,000 in grants and fellowship support to artists in 2026, reports arts editor HELEN MUSA.
The Australian String Quartet gave a breathtaking rendition of Béla Bartók’s String Quartet No. 4, a work as technically challenging as it is original and affecting, reviews MICHAEL WILSON.
There may have been a storm raging outside, but the calming Limestone Consort program of secular works by Nicolas Bernier and André Campra proved to be the perfect way to spend a rainy afternoon, reviews LEN POWER.
When an artist with such an international reputation presents a solo recital, expectations are high. And Daniel Röhn exceeds them splendidly, reviews DAVID WHITBREAD.
Here's arts editor HELEN MUSA's latest Arts in the City column.
The visual arts community has been shocked and saddened by the death on October 14 of art historian, educator and former head of the ANU School of Art, Gordon Bull, after a long battle with cancer. He was 68.
"It was song after song in a generous program of 28 classics, interrupted only by an interval or an interesting tidbit about a song or Rat Pack member." BILL STEPHENS reviews the Blamey Street Big Band.
"There was much colour and sunshine in this spring concert. If Wattle keep playing at this standard, they will go far." That's the prediction of music reviewer ROB KENNEDY.
AI health tools can inherit the biases of the data and assumptions behind them. MAHIMA KALLA and NOUSHIN NAZARIAN explain why tackling the problem needs to begin before a single line of code is written.
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With soil warming, it’s time to plant tomatoes, capsicums, cucumbers and other summer vegetables for a productive harvest, writes gardening columnist JACKIE WARBURTON.
"In 2026, NZ had an increase in overall sales of wine of eight per cent, a remarkable statistic given the global decline in wine sales generally," reports wine columnist RICHARD CALVER.
Hats off to the National Gallery for repositioning its café – Oculus Café x Kitchen by Mike – to the ground-floor foyer with views of the Sculpture Garden, writes dining reviewer WENDY JOHNSON.
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Kylie Jenner has dazzled the audience at the Victoria's Secret fashion show by walking the runway wearing a $US50 million bra covered with 4410 diamonds.
