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New policy round-up: Supermarkets, superannuation, first home buyers and climate change
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- September 6, 2026
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With the election just two months away, the major parties continue to roll out major policy. Well, most of them, writes Henry Oliver in today’s excerpt from The Bulletin. To receive The Bulletin in full each weekday, sign up here. Greens: A publicly-owned supermarket The Greens have promised to split up the supermarket duopoly and establish […]
Ordinary Engineers, Not Heroic Inventors
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- July 7, 2026
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In the 1980s, Japan led the world in semiconductors, consumer electronics, and computer hardware, the industries everyone assumed would decide the next phase of economic power. Japan won them and still did not overtake the United States in the information revolution that followed. Jeff Ding, a political scientist at George Washington University, opens his book […]
Leading mathematicians fear AI is making their field dumber, and warn the rest of us is next
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- September 12, 2026
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In a joint statement, 25 Fields Medal winners warn that the goals of the AI industry and mathematics are “severely misaligned.” They argue that mass-producing solved problems with AI undermines the discipline’s true goal: understanding. The mathematicians see this as a symptom of a broader threat to intellectual work. The article Leading mathematicians fear AI […]
Warriors lose home finals clash to Dolphins after blowing 16-8 lead
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- September 12, 2026
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The Warriors squandered a 16-8 lead as the Dolphins stormed into the NRL preliminary final.