Ben O'Shea
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Ben O'Shea: ChatGPT should teach us to be more vigilant of Artificial Intelligence than just students cheating
Maybe the most hilarious thing about this year’s ChatGPT scandal was our collective hysteria that the biggest danger presented by this technology was a few students cheating on their assignments. → Read More
Ben O’Shea opinion: Problems more than 200 years in the making need funding measured in decades
Fixing Indigenous inequality in Australia is a lot like Rio Tinto losing a radioactive capsule last month. Everyone can recognise it’s a problem, but very few can really understand why. → Read More
Ben O’Shea: Mandurah Giants arson proves WA can’t have nice things.
There was a time when I would have seen the senseless burning of Thomas Dambo’s Giant sculpture and thought, ‘This is why the Mandurah region can’t have nice things’. → Read More
Ben O’Shea: All I want for Christmas is better mobile phone reception
Maybe Mariah’s version is a little catchier, but I’m betting my Christmas wish will resonate with Perthlings. Seriously, what is with the diabolical mobile phone reception at this shopping centre? → Read More
Ben O’Shea: Maybe Bec Judd’s exclusive content is worth the $7.49 monthly fee but I won’t be finding out
A fool and his money are easily parted, which suggests Rebecca Judd is hoping a percentage of her 776,000 followers are idiots. Maybe they are if they shell out what she wants for her ‘exclusive content’. → Read More
Ben O’Shea: Why we as a society have hit the Taylor Swift saturation point
As hard as it might be for some people to believe, there is such a thing as too much T-Swizzle — and we, as a society, have hit that point. → Read More
Ben O’Shea: Australia will never get to true equality until we admit we haven’t got there yet
While it’s true modern Australian society offers people something closer to equal opportunity than the past, regardless of gender, sexual preference or skin colour, let’s not pat ourselves on the back just yet. → Read More
Ben O’Shea: People on Australia’s east coast don’t like Mark McGowan... at all
I’ve made two trips to Queensland in recent weeks and both times I was constantly confronted with something that I wasn’t expecting – people on the east coast really hate Mark McGowan. → Read More
Queen Elizabeth II: Five best portrayals of her majesty on-screen
From Neve Campbell in a bizarre Royal satire to Jennifer Saunders in Minions, there have been so many depictions of Her Majesty, but only one can rule them all. → Read More
Ben O’Shea: Bali travellers need to wake up to foot and mouth disease threat from undeclared food
Aussie farmers are quaking in their Blundies right now about foot and mouth disease — because preventing it from getting into Australia will really depend on the behaviour of people coming in from Bali. → Read More
Ben O’Shea: Why hasn’t WA Premier Mark McGowan reinstated the COVID-19 mask mandate?
More than two years into this pandemic, WA has just hit a new record for hospitalisations and ICU admissions — so why hasn’t Premier Mark McGowan re-introduced a mask mandate? → Read More
Ben O’Shea: COVID anti-vaxxers returning to work in WA need to take a look in the mirror
There hasn’t been enough water under the bridge to forget the behaviour of the one percent of West Aussies who refused to get the jab. → Read More
COVID in WA: Boxer Daniel ‘The Rock’ Dawson gets virus twice in six weeks
Daniel ‘The Rock’ Dawson made history to become the first Australian ever to hold world titles in Muay Thai, kick-boxing and boxing. He’s fit, he’s vaxxed and he’s just had COVID twice in six weeks. LISTEN. → Read More
Ben O’Shea: Why we must brave the political noise this campaign
Despite all these reasons to tune out, it is imperative you fight the urge to disengage, because this Federal election could be the most important Australia has faced in a generation. → Read More
Ben O’Shea: Why WA shouldn’t expect relaxed COVID rules anytime soon
Unlike your mate who popped a disco biscuit that time before Breakfest and was cooked before the headliner came on, WA is not peaking too early. → Read More
IWD 2022: Ben O’Shea’s reply to anyone asking ‘what about International Men’s Day?’
More than a few boofheads will hear it’s International Women’s Day and say: ‘There should be an International Men’s Day’. → Read More
Winter Olympics 2022: What skills it really takes to do curling (and why curlers sweep the ice)
If there’s one sport at the Winter Olympics that people look at and think, ‘I could do that’, curling is it. But it’s MUCH harder than it looks. → Read More
Ben O’Shea: How the fifth shittiest suburb in Australia has changed my mind
It’s the Perth suburb that’s usually the butt of everyone’s jokes, but there’s a lot to love about this ‘undesirable’ region. → Read More
Film review: Schumacher plays it much safer than the F1 legend took hairpin corners
Schumacher lacks the depth and insight to make for a truly compelling documentary on the sporting great. → Read More
Perth Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas says he is ready to ‘fight’ for city’s safety
Perth Lord Mayor Basil Zempilas said the community was “absolutely fed up” with the recent spate of violence in the city, after a brutal bashing on Sunday left 25-year-old soccer star Danny Hodgson fighting for his life in an induced coma. → Read More