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John Birmingham

Reporter · AU

Indexed articles, last 90 days
6
Latest publication
Sep 29, 2026
Outlet visibility, for Crikey
Top 500K sites
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Jul 8, 2026

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  1. Article · Sep 29, 2026 · John Birmingham

    Australia’s legacy systems were already a cyber risk. AI agents are raising the stakes (opens the original)

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    If you like this article, share it with your friends. In the days since an artificial intelligence (AI) agent operated by OpenAI gained unauthorised access to a Services Australia portal holding Medicare statistics, important questions have been raised about Australia’s readiness to prevent future breaches. Specifically, concerns have been raised about whether Australia is particularly vulnerable to autonomous AI agents because so much of our digital infrastructure depends on outdated or “legacy

  2. Article · Sep 23, 2026 · John Birmingham

    Humanity's end of days is good for business — just ask the AI cartel (opens the original)

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    If you like this article, share it with your friends. I genuinely thought the end of the world would be more fun than this. I imagined me and my apocalyptic pirate crew riding through the smoking ruins of our fallen civilisation, looting surprisingly well-stocked supermarkets for supplies and enjoying the giddy little thrill of hunting the occasional billionaire through the wreckage. Good times. But yeah, nah, turns out the apocalypse, like everything these days, is just another grift. We won’t

  3. Article · Aug 26, 2026 · John Birmingham

    Hanson is Napoleonic in her quiet on gambling ad reform (opens the original)

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    If you like this article, share it with your friends. The good Dr Samuel Johnson supposed a fortnight’s notice of the gallows was enough to concentrate a man’s mind wonderfully. The late Peta Murphy, forged from sterner stuff than most of the men in parliament, kept hers fixed for 12 years on doing the best she could with whatever time she had left. Murphy died of breast cancer in late 2023, five months after the inquiry she chaired into gambling reform released its report, “You win some, you lo

  4. Article · Aug 12, 2026 · John Birmingham

    One Nation voters, the death of the Liberal Party, and the appeal of a solid probe (opens the original)

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    If you like this article, share it with your friends. Opposition Leader Angus Taylor has already ruled out governing in a coalition with One Nation, which is a bit like me ruling out joining the Australian cricket team as an opening bowler. Yes, it’s technically a commitment, but not one that ever needs testing in the world of real things (and which, to be fair, would be stupidly cruel to keep asking about). Neither Angus, nor Andy, nor any of the interchangeable white manfellows currently works

  5. Article · Jul 29, 2026 · John Birmingham

    Australia is in a zombie alliance with Trump's America. Soon it will cannibalise itself — and us (opens the original)

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    If you like this article, share it with your friends. It’s January 2027, and you’re horizontal. The aircon is dripping onto the couch. There’s cricket on the telly somewhere, eternal and unbothered, the last functioning institution in the free world, while on the small, glowing fondleslab in your hand, the United States is dying. It was happening in slo-mo at first, but these past few weeks, the end has been coming on fast.Still, parliament long ago mashed the snooze button for summer, so half o

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