Anthony Albanese says Palestinian children are taught to hate. My daughter’s first trip home proves otherwise.

If Australia can remove people from its jurisdiction whenever a court decision becomes politically inconvenient, then the very idea of the rule of law is weakened. The High Court has already ruled that indefinite detention is unlawful. Offshore exile, purchased with billions, is little more than an attempt to sidestep that ruling while pretending compliance.

There is an ongoing trend in the industry to move people away from username and password towards passkeys. The intentions here are good, and I would assume that this has a significant net benefit for the average consumer. At the same time, the underlying standard has some peculiarities. These enable behaviors by large corporations, employers, and governments that are worth thinking about.

In assuming all respondents have a religion, the framing of the question produces acquiescence bias that inflates data — by as much as 11 points, according to a number of surveys — in favour of religious affiliation.

“I’m just going to try and do the best I can,” [Lehrmann's barrister] assured the court, before describing her client as “pretty much … a national joke” and “probably Australia’s most hated man”.

Burrows added that she was representing Lehrmann because, he “couldn’t afford” the barrister he “really wanted”.

The long, long public saga of Lehrmann has always co-mingled tragedy and farce. This week, it careened fully, decisively into farce. Here are the highlights of the lowlights.

Government to split early intervention supports for children up to nine out of NDIS into a new program

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Only passengers flying with Qantas from Auckland or Queenstown in New Zealand are eligible and must complete a declaration digitally before they fly.

On landing in Sydney, they get a digital pass with a QR code for inspection by border and biosecurity officers.

The trial is operated through the Qantas app.

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices. Not only is the company reintroducing new versions of old features which would allow police to request footage directly from Ring users, it is also introducing a new feature that would allow police to request live-stream access to people’s home security devices.