Latest net overseas migration figures are down 37% from recent peak, with experts pointing to misunderstanding of arrivals data * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Australia’s immigration figures are not at record highs, migration experts say, rejecting claims aired at rallies on Sunday. Experts say confusion about various migration numbers, and a recent case of inaccurate reporting which spread like wildfire online, have combined to give a false impression of overseas arrivals. Continue reading...

You have time that other countries have squandered. You can be leaders in building the information infrastructure humanity needs I became a journalist because information is power, and right now we are living through an information armaggedon. Facts are under assault. Truth is being murdered. The casualty? Trust … making it impossible to govern. Only dictatorships thrive when there’s no trust. And here are the three sentences I’ve said over and over since 2016 when I first said it in Silicon Valley, backed by data and hard-fought experience. Without facts, you can’t have truth. Without truth, you can’t have trust. Without trust, we have no shared reality. Continue reading...

The so-called Save Act would strip millions of their access to the vote and make the process harder for everyone else

With the US president parroting Putin talking points, America’s allies must rethink their security strategies.