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AI hype masks corporate failures and undermines workers

AI hype conceals corporate failures, deflects accountability and fuels fears of job losses to ...  
Working from home for over-55s: Fair Work puts productivity before preference

New Fair Work ruling finds over-55s can ask to work from home if they can establish a connection ...  
Timely advice to Treasurer Chalmers: Stop relying on the RBA

Former RBA Governor Bernie Fraser’s criticism of interest rate policy offers Treasurer Jim ...  
NSW DAMA to test One Nation and the Coalition

NSW Government plans to increase migration to regional NSW, which could impact One Nation and ...  
Coalition boxed in by working holiday visa policy

The Coalition’s opposition to tighter working holiday visa rules is at odds with its lower ...  
Australia’s efficiency obsession has created a culture of distrust

Australia’s obsession with metrics, audits and managerial efficiency has created a culture of ...  
Meet Claude: ABC’s new regional cadet journalist

ABC is rolling out AI-written news stories, but only in its regional newsrooms.  
Canavan staggeringly wrong on working holidaymakers

Nationals’ Leader Matt Canavan’s recent statements about working holiday makers are so stag ...  
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 ...  
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 ...  
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EDITORIAL: Big Tech — When 1984 meets The Godfather

It's obvious that technology will evolve and that the development of artificial intelligence is i ...  
AI job applicant screening — the law still applies

We were promised the machine would make hiring fairer. Instead, it made the unfairness quieter.  
Australia's biggest companies still fall short on gender equality

A new benchmark of Australia's largest listed companies reveals a persistent gap between gend ...  
Australia's workforce crisis starts with unpaid placement

Australia says it desperately needs teachers, nurses, social workers and care professionals, yet ...  
Skilled visa invites reveal Australia's workforce priorities

Australia's latest skilled visa invitations reveal which occupations the Government considers most ...  
The economic problem AI can't solve on its own

Artificial intelligence may boost productivity and profits, but without sufficient demand in the ...  
Forced labour tariffs: U.S. hypocrisy writ large but don't make a diplomatic fuss

Forced labour rhetoric is being weaponised as trade tariffs by the Trump Administration.  
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