Abra Pressler

Fifty years ago President Ferdinand Marcos signed the labour code that sent Filipino workers all over the world as domestics workers, seafarers, construction workers, nurses (both male and female), caregivers, professionals in the IT and hospitality industries, to name a few. Today, 10 million or ten percent of the Philippine’s population are migrants. Both popular

It all feels so inevitable now, but as many have noted, that wasn’t always the case. When I was doing the final edits on the manuscript on what became The Shrinking Nation earlier this year, there was still the possibility of a bipartisan position on the Voice. There had been broad agreement on Indigenous recognition,

Melbourne’s new Now or Never festival—a replacement for the city’s previous Music Week and Knowledge Week—recently saw the Royal Exhibition Building filled with a number of large-scale musical events, with many focusing on the intersection between music and science. But this is not the first time the Exhibition Building has played host to a major

In May, I began an experiment. For the past three months, I have been trying to teach the AI application ChatGPT some basic facts about Australian media history. Unfortunately, it has proven to be a very poor student. My experiment confirmed a widely reported problem – ChatGPT ‘hallucinates’ wrong answers but expresses them with such