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The attack on independent MP Helen Haines outside her electorate office in Wangaratta has shocked the nation. Scripture reserves the word outrage for sins that wound not just one person but a whole community, and an attack on an elected representative is exactly that kind of wound. It has rightly prompted a national conversation about the increasingly toxic nature of our political discourse. Commentators have rightly called for greater civility, less inflammatory rhetoric, an

The joy of Maths Mathematicians love puzzles. For most of them, mathematics is a calling. They live for the eureka moment, the elegant proof, the breakthrough after months of being stuck. In this week's episode of the New York Times podcast The Daily, host Rachel Abrams spoke with Cornell University mathematician Steven Strogatz about what happens when that calling and joy is snatched away. AI systems are now solving mathematics problems that have defeated brilliant minds for

Late last month in New York, our Prime Minister revealed something straight out of science fiction. An OpenAI agent had broken into a Medicare statistics portal, accessed both public and non-public files, and even written data to an internal server. There is no evidence that personal health information was exposed. What was alarming was how it got in. Albanese said the system's defences kept "telling the AI agent, no." The agent found a way around them. It wasn't an isolated