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Books & Arts
Will a robot take your job?
John Quiggin
27 September 2018
Review essay
| Three new books challenge lazy thinking about job-stealing robots and infallible algorithms
National Affairs
Voices of the land
Jane Goodall
5 September 2018
The ABC is experimenting with ways of deepening its coverage of regional Australia
Essays & Reportage
Love thine enemy
Jill Stark
16 August 2018
What happens when you meet the person you’ve done battle with online?
Essays & Reportage
Like Uber, but for politics
Dominic Kelly
9 August 2018
The false promise of digital democracy
National Affairs
“Of course they say there are no competition issues. They always do”
Julian Thomas
2 August 2018
Against expectations, Fairfax, Nine and the government are running up against the regulator
National Affairs
Staying in or opting out?
Ruth Armstrong
24 July 2018
How My Health Record went viral for all the wrong reasons
Books & Arts
The great accounting
Brett Evans
13 July 2018
Books
| Are the Big Four auditing companies facing their moment of truth?
Books & Arts
Privacy by design
Megan Richardson
4 July 2018
Books
| Badly designed technologies can trap users and thwart their understanding, argues lawyer–scientist Woodrow Hartzog. Good design can do the opposite
International
Zuckerberg’s gift
Sophie Black
24 April 2018
Facebook’s chief executive made a surprise admission to Congress earlier this month. Yet we’re in danger of letting him off the hook
Books & Arts
Inside Cambridge Analytica
Jane Goodall
19 April 2018
Television
| Behind the algorithms, is this just an old-fashioned propaganda outfit with a thick veneer of spin?
National Affairs
Withheld, pending advice
Tim Sherratt
2 February 2018
Three snapshots of Australia’s national archives reveal delays and anomalies in public access
National Affairs
Bitcoin’s zero-sum game
John Quiggin
24 January 2018
The quicker the cryptocurrency reaches its true value the better
Essays & Reportage
In the belly of the beast
Tim Dunlop
16 January 2018
As Uber picks itself up after another legal blow — this time from the European Court of Justice — an ambivalent observer recalls a visit to the company’s Australian head…
National Affairs
Big picture, few hilltops
Margaret Simons
14 November 2017
Where is the ABC heading? Michelle Guthrie’s latest announcement doesn’t make the future much clearer
Essays & Reportage
5G’s new frontier
Jock Given
23 October 2017
From the archive
| Backers of 5G promise breathtaking speed and ultra-reliability. But does Australia need its own vision for the new wireless networks?
International
Google’s ad problem and the future of online media
Ramon Lobato
31 March 2017
The YouTube advertising controversy has wider implications for how content is paid for
International
The stratifying internet
Julian Thomas
18 November 2016
Internet connections have surged in the region, but cost has re-emerged as a constraint for many users
International
Cultural politics on demand
Ramon Lobato
31 May 2016
Should Netflix and other streaming services be required to promote local content? New developments in Europe are reviving old debates about national culture, writes
Ramon Lobato
National Affairs
3D, yes. But DIY? Not so much
Angela Daly
11 May 2016
The 3D printing revolution might not be as sweeping as the headlines suggest, argues
Angela Daly
. But that doesn’t mean it won’t change the way manufacturing works
International
Was the ABC shanghaied by Beijing?
John Fitzgerald
18 April 2016
China needs no help in silencing its critics at home and abroad. So how did Australia come to be part of the problem, asks
John Fitzgerald
From the archive
The Independent, a restless farewell
David Hayes
25 March 2016
The last print run of a once vital newspaper has been hailed as a digital ascent. But it’s more complicated than that
Essays & Reportage
The streaming wars
Ramon Lobato and James Meese
12 February 2016
How did Australia’s love affair with Netflix begin? In this extract from a new book,
Ramon Lobato
and
James Meese
trace the geoblocking debate and its political fallout
Books & Arts
Heroes
Andrew Ford
5 February 2016
Music
| More music, fewer musical heroes?
Andrew Ford
on the paradox of plenty
Essays & Reportage
Lighting the dark waters
Amin Ansari
2 February 2016
In his winning entry for the 2015 Gavin Mooney Memorial Essay Competition,
Amin Ansari
shows how social media is changing perceptions of asylum seekers seeking safety in Australia
National Affairs
Innovation: the test is yet to come
John Quiggin
10 December 2015
Education is the sector that most urgently needs to be freed from the Abbott legacy, writes
John Quiggin
Essays & Reportage
Life in the goldfish bowl
Gavin J.D. Smith
2 December 2015
Why have watershed data retention laws failed to excite more opposition? Three factors might help explain our acquiescence, writes
Gavin J.D. Smith
International
Ashley Madison and the identity protection racket
Ramon Lobato & Julian Thomas
1 September 2015
Data breaches are creating a new breed of online scammer, write
Ramon Lobato
and
Julian Thomas
International
Pope 1, Lomborg 0
Daniel Nethery
23 July 2015
A new website allows scientists around the world to assess the quality of media coverage of climate change, writes
Daniel Nethery
Books & Arts
Fakers, makers and takers
Emily van der Nagel
16 July 2015
… not to mention genuinely useful views and reviews.
Emily van der Nagel
assesses a new study of online comments
Essays & Reportage
Wrestling with Sir Ken
Dean Ashenden
24 June 2015
Dean Ashenden
takes on the sixties, GERM, and the world’s best-known educational revolutionary
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