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NBN’s success vindicates original vision — but the job's not done

NBN Co's FY26 results demonstrate the transition from copper to fibre is producing the bene ...  
Business pushes trickle-down myth then blames government for its inevitable failure

Historic economic growth and productivity gains have largely failed to translate into broadly ...  
Australia’s extraction machine goes digital

Australia’s colonial extraction economy has gone digital, using fear, AI hype and worker expl ...  
Tony Burke's immigration package must deliver the PM's net migration commitments and more

The Government is looking for ways to address the size of these unsustainable numbers, but with ...  
Australia needs AI skills — not just more data centres

Data-centre approvals should reflect demonstrable demand, energy availability and rapidly changing ...  
AI near misses: The space between potential and catastrophe

The goal is enough AI near-miss transparency to show what went wrong, who noticed, who acted and ...  
Big Tech: When 1984 meets The Godfather

The development of AI is inevitable, but when Nineteen Eighty-Four meets The Godfather in real ...  
AI job applicant screening —  the law still applies

We were promised the machine would make hiring fairer. Instead, it made the unfairness quieter.  
Opposites attract: Pauline Hanson and Gina Rinehart's paradoxical relationship

What’s behind the alliance between Pauline Hanson and Gina Rinehart?  
Billionaire BS and the great wealth lie

The myth that billionaires earn their fortunes through hard work is a convenient fiction that ...  
The business investment boom will spark a surge in productivity

Strong business investment is laying the foundations for higher productivity, stronger growth and ...  
Rushy Lagoon sale: Tasmania's largest farm and the carbon math that doesn't add up

Here's the pitch: plant enough trees & somewhere a coal-fired power station, a gas plant, or an i ...  
Liberals continue with nonsense immigration policy

Liberals' immigration policy linking net migration to completed houses is putting the cart befo ...  
Australia's fairness problem is holding productivity back

Rather than flowing into higher wages, a growing share of productivity gains has failed to show up ...  
Digital sovereignty and the danger of the off switch

Australia's future should not depend on the goodwill of any single foreign government or comp ...  
Telstra outage reveals a dangerous gap in Australia's digital resilience

The Telstra outage exposed a bigger problem than a software fault: Australia's telecommunicatio ...  
Students and academics sold out for debt-trap degree factories

Australia created a skills shortage coexisting with graduate underemployment by quietly decoupling ...  
Australia's wealth belongs to its people, not foreign corporations

Despite its vast natural wealth, too many Australians are missing out on its benefits.  
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