As US states block data centre construction, Labor’s AI guru Andrew Charlton says Australia’s approach should be “neither boosterism nor alarmism”.

Labor MPs in key inner-city marginal seats say younger voters in the street and at less-competitive auctions are giving the government credit for its tax overhaul.

As the nation grapples with how to extract economic uplift from AI investment, 640 of Australia’s top researchers have united.

After a fourth poll showed One Nation inching ahead of Labor, Angus Taylor told this masthead that Labor’s budget had “further eroded trust in the political system”.

After politicians from all sides condemned billboards portraying Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan as a witch, Albanese made an impassioned request for media outlets to stop portraying politicians in a personal manner.

Coalition strategists believe that linking the rising populist leader to the US president is one of the best ways to diminish her standing among voters.