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Using AI to ‘talk to animals’ might make us feel clever – but what, if anything, does it do for them?
As animal behaviorists increasingly use AI in their research, they grapple with how to wield the technology re...
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Dance Monkey v the NRL: did Tones and I really turn down $90,000 a minute because she hates her own song?
For the first time in recent history there’ll be no pre-game entertainment at the NRL grand final. But everyon...
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Australia banned this anti-fascist play in 1936 at the request of the Nazis. Ninety years on, it’s being staged again
A new production of Clifford Odets’ agitprop work Till the Day I Die is being remounted on the back of a truck...
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Angry Anderson dies aged 79: Rose Tattoo frontman was a ferocious rock’n’roll singer and youth advocate
The singer, songwriter, actor and advocate, who has died after a cardiac arrest while touring in Europe, kept...
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Morning Mail: Pauline Hanson’s right-hand man, warnings Moscow may target Nato, and the end of card surcharges
Australians to no longer be hit with card surcharges; James Ashby’s rise in One Nation; Beijing believes AI sl...
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Workers on 13 Bathla sites stood down as funding runs out – as it happened
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Why is Woodside sponsoring Fremantle’s AFL team – and will the climate crisis shift the relationship?
Dockers supporters cannot buy a barrel of Woodside oil – but the fossil fuel company hopes to buy into fans’ l...
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Morning Mail: Albanese embraces Zelenskyy at UN; grocery prices climb; and ‘getting weird’ with spring fashion
President says Tehran will ‘never bow’ to US in defiant speech at UN; basket of typical items increases by an...
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Morning Mail: US warns Albanese over algorithm opt-out, cost of raising children rising, and a hot chook taste test
Albanese government plan would be seen as ‘censorship’ as US ups the ante in tech battle; find out which super...
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Morning Mail: Albanese plea amid El Niño threat, a week in the life of Gaza, Sylvia Plath ‘stole my boyfriend’
PM urges global action to fight climate crisis as leaders gather at United Nations; a special Guardian series...
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Who is Siobhan McKenna? The ‘irreplaceable’ former Murdoch aide given a top diplomatic posting
The next general consul to New York chairs Australia Post and is a former News Corp executive