Rents have risen at the fastest rate for 14 years as Australia’s landlords seek to recoup costs in the face of rising interest rates and higher inflation. According research firm CoreLogic’s quarterly rental review, the national rental index increased 0.9%… Read More »Rents rise at fastest rate in 14 years across Australia
A ship that had been stranded off the New South Wales coast in wild weather, sparking fears of an environmental catastrophe, has been safely returned to port. The MV Portland Bay, a 170-metre cargo ship registered in Hong Kong, became… Read More »Cargo ship safely returned to port in Sydney after three days stranded in wild seas
Hong Kong unionists have pleaded not guilty to publishing “seditious” material as a five-day trial began over illustrated children’s books. The case revolves around a series of books published by the now-defunct General Union of Hong Kong Speech Therapists that… Read More »Five stand trial for sedition in Hong Kong over children’s books about sheep
A major Japanese ramen chain is offering free noodles to young people ahead of Sunday’s upper house elections, amid widespread concern that the nation’s disaffected youth will not bother turning out to vote. Ippudo, which operates 50 ramen shops across… Read More »Free noodles offered as Japan wrestles with low youth turnout for elections
Like Ms Murphy, flood modeller turned researcher, Dr Wenyan Wu, is looking at ways to simulate flood levels over time, at speed, using machine learning techniques. Importantly, this is being done Dr Wu says without compromising accuracy and without costing… Read More »Australia’s devastating floods spur new warning systems
The families of two young girls who allegedly died as a result of a viral TikTok challenge have sued the social media platform, claiming its “dangerous” algorithms are to blame for their children’s deaths. Parents of two girls who died… Read More »Families sue TikTok after girls died while trying ‘blackout challenge’
Starting last fall, Blake Lemoine began asking a computer about its feelings. An engineer for Google’s Responsible AI group, Lemoine was tasked with testing one of the company’s AI systems, the Language Model for Dialogue Applications, or LaMDA, to make… Read More »Rise of the woebots: why are robots always so sad?
New Zealand school principals are raising the alarm that students are falling off the rolls, as a wave of absenteeism follows the disruption of Covid-19. In 2021, schools in Auckland and parts of the North Island were shut down for… Read More »New Zealand principals voice alarm as students fail return to school after Covid lockdowns
Former Labor frontbencher and chair of IFM Investors Greg Combet will lead a high-powered delegation of leaders from the superannuation industry to Jakarta next month as part of efforts to turbocharge the economic relationship between Australia and Indonesia. Combet has… Read More »Australian superannuation industry leaders to visit Indonesia to turbocharge business ties
On a quiet stretch amid the sprawling buzz of Kaneshie market in Accra, a group of traders sheltering under canopies from the blazing sun sell yams stacked along the roadside. Rita Oboh, 32, has worked the spot, or one nearby,… Read More »Lean times for Ghana’s yam traders as cost of living crisis bites