Alan Kohler
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- Sep 27, 2026
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Migration cuts, AI and rising interest rates means an era of long-term disinflation (opens the original)
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The Reserve Bank will increase interest rates on Tuesday for the fourth time this year, and what's more, it will be a "hawkish hike" — that is, with suggestions of more to come. But there are now three new factors entirely outside the bank's control that are pulling in different directions: The first will tend to increase inflation and therefore push interest rates higher — though it's likely to be short-term — while the second and third are longer-term and will tend to lower inflation and inter
The economics of migration - ABC listen (opens the original)
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Australia's migration debate is once again ramping up, with Labor planning to cut backpacker and student visa numbers amid calls from One Nation to slash immigration by 750, 000 places over three years. Beneath the political storm is a complicated history of changing economic and social policy governing who gets to come to — and who gets to stay in — Australia. Mark Cully is a former chief economist for the Department of Immigration, a former chair of the OECD Working Party on Migration, and the
Can the government control AI? - ABC listen (opens the original)
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The Australian Government is calling for stronger global rules around artificial intelligence. But as AI agents become more capable and autonomous, the question is becoming increasingly urgent: can governments regulate AI before it gets ahead of them? This week, prime minister Anthony Albanese announced a swarm of OpenAI's agents appeared to work together to circumvent cybersecurity defences and access Medicare health data. But the US President Donald Trump has rejected calls for more AI guardra
Building faster, cheaper housing - ABC listen (opens the original)
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For years governments and companies have been trying to figure out how to make more houses people can afford in Australia. In other parts of the world, building homes in factories and then assembling them onsite is part of the solution — but it's never really taken off in Australia. Now, construction firm Built has joined up with Bunnings' parent company Wesfarmers to create Built Living, a company making pre-cast concrete apartment parts ready to turn into affordable homes. But are Australians
Chorus of concern over AI is growing louder (opens the original)
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Over the weekend the CEO of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, published an essay with the headline We Must Pace the Frontier. He said he's worried that within a year a swarm of AI agents could be capable of taking over the entire internet, potentially causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage, and that the scale of damage would continue to increase from there. He called for frontier artificial intelligence companies to give employee-like access to a team of embedded third-party evaluators to chec
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