How a remote Ecuadorian village took on Gina Rinehart

Lucia Chicaiza lives in northern Ecuador, in a sleepy farming town of just over 2000 people, at the foot of the Andes. She also happens to live near a lucrative gold and copper deposit that has caught the eye of Australia’s richest person: Gina Rinehart. Investigative reporter Marta Pascual Juanola…

Coalition’s 'race to the bottom on migration' and former immigration official answers your questions

It’s been a year since Liberal MP Andrew Hastie quit Sussan Ley’s frontbench to speak his mind on migration. His decision fractured the Coalition and Ley’s ambition to woo back multicultural communities with a more moderate stance. How things change in a year. But through it all, migration has be…

Godlike worship of AI is happening, and the Pope is its greatest opponent

While the rest of us have been dreaming of the promise of AI to cure diseases, and fretting about the threat of robots overtaking humanity, a growing number of people have started literally worshippingAI. At online churches, and in front of an AI deity, people around the world are asking this techn…

Inside 'sandpapergate' – cricket's greatest scandal

Australians woke up on a Sunday morning in 2018 to extraordinary vision plastered across their television screens and mobile phones: Cameron Bancroft, the opening batsman on the Australian men’s cricket team, caught on camera using a piece of sandpaper to tamper with the ball during a Test match in…

The royals have a rich history of lawsuits, but Andrew’s action is different

There’s been big news from the UK overnight, with Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly known as Prince Andrew, launching legal action against police over his arrest in relation to the Epstein files. Not since the 1649 trial of King Charles I has a British royal mounted a legal challenge of this ma…

I was a teenage boy online. It took 13 minutes for the manosphere to come

According to new analysis, screen time could damage children more than being born into poverty. The findings from the University of Calgary say higher doses of screen exposure are associated with lower overall academic achievement, poorer language development and emotional and peer problems. So wh…

Interest rates and Labor's spending, and the Greens look to Mamdani

Anthony Albanese is back from the United Nations in New York to a slump in his approval rating and more economic pain. On Tuesday, the Reserve Bank raised interest rates to a 15-year-high due to continued inflation pressure. So what's driving inflation? How much is government spending contributing…

Did Trump offer arms to Xi Jinping? What happened on the White House tour

When the competing leaders of the world's two biggest economies gather for a summit, there's usually a lot to tussle over – military build-up, trade, critical minerals or AI. But that's not what happened when Donald Trump and Xi Jinping met last week. Today, international and political editor Pete…

Bogong moths are swarming homes, and their story is miraculous

If you live in a certain part of Australia, you have probably noticed them – big moths flying around, clinging to glass doors and gathering around lights in massive numbers. But for all the freak-outs across the east coast, naturalists are rejoicing. Today, national environment and climate editor…

Another interest rate hike? Experts say there are other ways to curb inflation

Interest rate hikes are stressing Australian mortgage holders across the country. But are higher rates the only way to get inflation down? Or are there alternatives to the Reserve Bank’s go-to, blunt-force measure? Today, senior economics writer Matt Wade, on the potential – and challenges – of f…