Elias Visontay

5 days ago | theguardian.com | Elias Visontay

Robots zipping down footpaths may sound futuristic, but they are increasingly being put to work making deliveries around the world – though a legal minefield and cautious approach to new tech means they are largely absent in Australia. Retail and food businesses have been using robots for a variety of reasons, with hazard detection robots popping up in certain Woolworths stores and virtual waiters taking dishes from kitchens in understaffed restaurants to hungry diners in recent years.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Elias Visontay

Queer Australians are axing travel plans to Washington DC’s World Pride festival, as Donald Trump’s executive orders targeting LGBTQ+ rights leads to fears of discrimination at the US border and potential attacks. People skipping the international event join other Australians and travellers from around the world who are avoiding the US after Trump’s inauguration and a string of controversial policies enacted in the early months of his second term as president.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Elias Visontay

Voters have dealt a significant blow to the Greens, with the minor party on track to lose several MPs – potentially its party leader Adam Bandt – and fall short in other electorates it had hoped to win from Labor, while several teal independents retained their seats with improved margins and others are on track to win seats previously held by the Coalition.

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Caitlin Cassidy |Elias Visontay

1.Peter Dutton called the Guardian and the ABC “hate media” when addressing the party faithful at a rally in the Labor-held seat of Hawke. Which of these is not a description the opposition leader has previously used for Guardian Australia? They “draw mean cartoons”2.How did Anthony Albanese describe Katy Perry’s flight to space when asked to give one-word responses to prompts on commercial radio?

1 week ago | theguardian.com | Elias Visontay

Hello readers. Welcome to today’s final election edition of Afternoon Update. It’s Friday, the last full day day of the campaign, and after five weeks Labor and the Coalition are making their final appeals to voters ahead of polls opening on Saturday. Anthony Albanese began the day in Brisbane, again appearing in Peter Dutton’s home seat of Dickson, where Labor are hoping to unseat the opposition leader. The prime minister then , a seat held by the Liberals on a safe margin.