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AI is coming for white-collar jobs. What are students doing

The kids are watching the AI job carnage. What are they going to do?

Asking Gen Z to decide what career to pursue is an increasingly difficult task. Experts say there is “absolutely no occupation that is completely immune from AI”.

  • Bronte Gossling

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BackTrack Night Crew workers Zac Craig and Steph Olsen talk to young people in Armidale.

This service is saving kids’ lives. More towns want to replicate it, but none have succeeded

Politicians want to replicate it and most of the “at-risk” children involved in BackTrack never want to leave.

  • Jordan Baker
Smiling assassin. Lorraine Moss with two of her children.

‘My mother poisoned my father, and I had to live with the aftermath’

Long before Erin Patterson used poisonous mushrooms to kill three family members with deadly beef Wellingtons, Lorraine Moss was lacing her husband’s food with arsenic.

  • John Silvester
Liberal leader Angus Taylor speaking at Tuesday’s press conference.

Will Angus Taylor look to his grandfather for guidance on immigration?

The new Liberal Party leader’s great role model, his grandfather William Hudson, brought tens of thousands of immigrants to a xenophobic White Australia.

  • Tony Wright
Launa Inman has led Target, Officeworks and Billabong and is now chair of the Melbourne Fashion Festival.

‘You have to be famous for something’: The retail leader reshaping Melbourne’s fashion fest

Launa Inman, formerly chief of Target, Officeworks and Billabong, is bringing her business acumen to the festival.

  • Cara Waters
An always animated Kathy Lette at lunch.

Kathy Lette on ageing fabulously … and giving cheek to the King

The 67-year-old author is encouraging women her age to go forth and be fabulous, “because if not now, when?”

  • Margot Saville
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Maia Domingas, 38, has advanced cervical cancer and lies in the gynaecology unit ward waiting to see if she is eligible for treatment overseas.

‘I can’t watch women die any more’: The remarkable tactics being used to eliminate a killer

Meet the Australian medicos taking the fight to an entirely preventable cancer killing young women, leaving children motherless and causing intergenerational damage.

  • Kate Aubusson and Kate Geraghty
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A young mum picked up a hobby. Years later, a princess ended up wearing her works of art

An exhibition at the NGV celebrates the intricacy and evolution of an iconic piece of clothing.

  • Kerrie O'Brien
George Xanthis the Australian actor who stars in The Chosen, a prestige drama about the life of Jesus Christ, has been watched by more than 280 million unique viewers worldwide.

Bingeing The Bible: How a low-budget TV series about Jesus Christ inspired streamers to look to the heavens

As an out-of-work actor, George Xanthis never imagined that a crowdfunded TV series about the life of Jesus would be his break. Five seasons and 280 million viewers later, his prayers have been answered.

  • Thomas Mitchell
Pandemic bill protesters state their case on Saturday.

Stupid? Deluded? Uneducated? Why ordinary people get hooked on conspiracy theories

Simplistic answers don’t explain why a wide variety of our fellow citizens end up holding wild and clearly nonsensical beliefs.

  • Kaz Ross