Opinion

Bond markets moved fast on Wednesday. The Australian 10-year government bond yield reached 5.19 per cent, its highest level since July 2011, after the ABS confirmed GDP rose 0.4 per cent in the June quarter. Rate-hike talk got louder almost immediately. It shouldn't have.

Her own lawyers concede Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children. Four hundred people stood outside her trial in pink. Try to picture that crowd for a father.

The Australian Electoral Commission's own submission to the parliamentary committee on artificial intelligence is worth reading carefully.

Supply chain architecture is not glamorous policy. It is wiring diagrams, export licence schedules and standards bodies most ministers could not name at a press conference.

There is a particular kind of political announcement that arrives dressed as generosity but is, on closer inspection, a confession. The joint federal and New South Wales commitment of A$2.5 billion to underwrite power costs at Tomago Aluminium is that kind of announcement.

OpenRouter's traffic data does not leave much room for interpretation. Chinese-developed models in OpenRouter's daily top 50 grew from 5 in January 2025 to 20 by May 2026. That is not a blip. That is a structural redistribution of developer attention, across roughly 16 months.

Canberra sets the charge digital platforms must pay Australian publishers, and separately part-pays the wages of more than 2,000 journalists. Both programs are documented in the government's own papers. Neither has been examined as half of the same arrangement.

Seventy-six witnesses, four months of court, one judge and no jury. Alan Jones has pleaded not guilty, and nobody publishes what a trial this size costs.