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Focusing exclusively on what went wrong risks missing the many noble, clever and socially valuable tech projects that made progress this year.

There’s a one in six chance we’ll be extinct in 100 years. So what can we do about it?

Smarter people than me reckon there’s a decent chance the human race could soon be wiped out. Our biggest threat? Ourselves.

  • Ross Gittins

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Artwork by Matthew Absalom-Wong

It’s already too late to stop AI. But before the p(doom), let’s consider the p(boom)

Pope Leo says management of the new tech is now humanity’s most important mission. Australia is uniquely well-placed to play a role in that endeavour.

  • Peter Hartcher
Zombies or Terminators - Andrew Leigh says we have to be open to the end of humanity.

An economist’s plan to fight the zombie apocalypse

Worried about capital gains tax or high-priced petrol? Frontbencher Andrew Leigh says Australia is facing bigger problems.

  • Shane Wright
Assistant treasurer and assistant minister for productivity and competition Andrew Leigh.

Boomers will leave their kids $5.4 trillion. This minister thinks we should give it away instead

The government wants to double philanthropic donations by 2030. But our charitable instincts seem to be going in the opposite direction.

  • Jenna Price
Support for Pauline Hanson’s One Nation is rising in NSW.

If the major parties want to win back One Nation voters, they’re going about it all wrong

In their fear, Labor and the Coalition are making a hat-trick of mistakes which confirm to voters leaving for One Nation that they were never really valued or understood in the first place.

  • Parnell Palme McGuinness
Commonwealth Bank is the country’s largest. But it has outperformed its rivals by a long way over the last year, and is now one of the world’s most expensive bank stocks.

Long-suffering consumers have been ground into submission

How have we been forced to accept business decisions that do not improve our lives but instead simply enrich corporations while prices rise?

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The Albanese government will legislate new penalties aimed at protecting consumers from online sales techniques.

Drips and traps: New laws to target dodgy online sales techniques

Almost all Australians buy goods and services online. But many are caught by hard-edge tricks, which are set to face new restrictions.

  • Shane Wright

Most people think CEOs are grossly overpaid. What can we do about it?

The average CEO of a publicly listed company earns more than 100 times the pay of the average full-time employee. This needs to change.

  • Matt Wade
Many workers have been stung by non-compete clauses in their employment contracts.

‘Less like Monopoly, more like Lego’: Labor’s plan to scrap lock-in contracts

Everyone from yoga instructors to laundromat workers are finding their work contracts contain non-compete clauses, described as agreements people would expect “Cold War spies” to sign.

  • Shane Wright
Brought to book? Treasurer Jim Chalmers at the National Press Club.

More is more: The big idea that’s inspired Jim Chalmers (huzzah!)

I had to read Abundance when I saw the treasurer and half of the cabinet had devoured it. How far they’ll take the book’s advice is not abundantly clear.

  • Parnell Palme McGuinness