Jacob Greber
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- Sep 11, 2026
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Hastie emerges as genuine conviction politician (opens the original)
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People who lead us in public life can often sound like one of those dead-eyed "large language models" many are so worried about. Politically-optimised LLMs jerry-rigged to flesh-and-bone "neural networks". Sprouting reasonable-sounding nonsense. All that's missing is a silly name like Llama or Rufus. This column has no real understanding of how AI works. But the way LLMs are fed on data in Silicon Valley's dark satanic mills reminds one of how the French force-feed ducks and geese to expand thei
Why political optimism has become scarce in Australia (opens the original)
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This week's national accounts confirmed how stuck we are in a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours … to steal from English literature's greatest melancholy wobbler. It's doubtful Hamlet ever dwelt on the state of Denmark's real net national disposable income (RNNDI) per capita. But if he had he might have embraced what a downer it is. RNNDI is one of those measures that helps explain why voters look desperate to try new and "dangerous" things, as the prime minister put it this week. He was
A week of AUKUS double-speak leaves everyone scratching their heads (opens the original)
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Americans love a sheep dog breed known as the "Aussie Shepherd". Spend time in the US, and you'll meet them everywhere. A lively, fluffy-looking herder claimed to have partly originated from antipodean imports to California in the 19th century. The name is striking because you don't really see them here. There's no way to know for sure, but I'd wager a few of these popular pets will soon be coming "home". Specifically among families of the some 1,000 US military personnel moving to HMAS Stirling
Australia's 'monoculture' might be at the Labor conference (opens the original)
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If Australia indeed harbours a "monoculture" it might be the ideological version on display at this week's Labor Party National Conference. For supporters it was orderly, unified and determined. A striking example of political resolve. For critics? A wearisome parade of Bunyip Juche. The party's supreme policy-making machine has been busy honing a platform that's as tight and shiny as a button. Spiky bits like the base's angst over AUKUS, Palestine and greater taxation of resources mostly buffed
Curbing well-off taxpayers' access to key programs could save billions (opens the original)
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John Howard once likened the struggle for economic reform to "the runner who is pursuing an ever-receding finishing line". "If you don't keep running, you don't try to reach it, then others are going to go past you." Howard used that line in a 2005 speech in Washington. A little over two years later he and the Coalition's 11-year run in office ended in defeat to Kevin Rudd. In the lead-up to the 2007 election, Labor accused the Howard government of giving up on structural reform. Of losing the a
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