The 2013 Boyer Lecture series have been presented by Her Excellency, The Honourable Quentin Bryce AC CVO, Governor-General of the Commonwealth of Australia.

World Philosophy Day, which the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) celebrates every year on the third Thursday of November, emphasises the enduring "value of philosophy for the development of human thought, for each culture and for each individual".

Tony Abbott's handling of the Indonesian spying scandal is facing increasingly strident criticism from within Indonesia, with a powerful opposition figure and the country's former intelligence chief weighing in on the issue.

The Coalition has accused Labor of sending mixed messages over its commitment to bipartisanship in repairing the frayed Australia-Indonesia relationship.

Prime Minister Tony Abbott is showing no sign he intends to apologise to Indonesian president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono over the spying scandal.

Gus asks. As we generously give some old custom gun boats to Sri Lanka one has to ask, do we supply the ammos as well? Do we supply the fuel to run the boats? Do we supply the maintenance expertise or are these going to become pitted aluminium saucepans or rust buckets?... Fair questions I thought. 

As usual our little turd-in-chief is super generous in giving what is not his to give, as he made us foot the bill for his furious pedalling at charitable events... Nothing new.

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British intelligence agency GCHQ has been targeting mobile phone company networks. Telecoms security expert Philippe Langlois explains what they can find this way, and how users can protect themselves from such snooping.

On Monday this week Maurice Newman, the head of Tony Abbott’s business advisory council, gave a speech examining Australia’s fall in competitiveness over the past five years.

International committee to consider asking nations not to develop autonomous killing machines