Editorial coverage from the Brisbane Australia Wire newsroom.
When we talk about wrongful convictions in Australia – by which we mean convictions identified as wrong only after all appeal rights have been exhausted – the first question we are asked is: do we really have a problem?
On Ultimo Road in Haymarket, just a few minutes’ walk from Paddy’s Markets, stands an unassuming building with an unusual history.
Aotearoa New Zealand produces enough food annually to feed 40 million people – most of it exported. Yet it is estimated one in three households experience some form of hunger or food insecurity.
This month, the Australian Research Council (ARC) announced that some funding in its new “Explore” grant scheme will be allocated to scientists by a conditional lottery.
It’s been a big few weeks for coal mines.
The Australian government looks likely to introduce stronger legal checks on artificial intelligence (AI) companies to parliament early next year, after a bipartisan parliamentary committee released early recommendations in a letter to the…
A shipwreck off the coast of Turkey is the oldest shipwreck in the world, our team of archaeologists believes.
Drug companies gave at least A$7.7 million over ten years to Australia’s major political parties, our new study shows. But weaknesses in federal disclosure laws mean nobody knows the true figure.
Over the past month, the Labor government, the Coalition and One Nation have all announced new migration policies. Although they differ in some respects they have one feature in common: a focus on net overseas migration (NOM).
The harmful effects of sign language deprivation has been a recurring theme throughout Deaf art, history, politics and culture.
Many of the Australian animals most at risk of extinction are extremely tough to track down. That’s because they live in small pockets of disappearing nature, such as rare grasslands or ancient forests, in worryingly low numbers.
Next month, ChatGPT will mark its fourth birthday. In that short time, the popular chatbot and other generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) tools have transformed society as we know it.