Business
Why Pauline Hanson’s small business message falls flat

The Senator who just raised $2.7 million to “Fire the Liar” and has her eyes on the Lodge has ...  
Telcos: Australia's greatest infrastructure success under attack

Telecommunications have transformed Australians' lives, but they remain under attack from medi ...  
Retailers trying to get out of their obligations to accept cash under new laws

Multiple supermarkets and fuel retailers are trying to get out of their obligations to accept ...  
AFR-king what!? Mad money mag grovels to Gina, bootlicks billionaires and promotes plutocracy

‘Billionaire barons have every right to use their money to influence us’, pontificated the ...  
The great decoupling: How we became the Eloi

An unsettling new economic allegory argues modern workers have become the “Eloi” of a techn ...  
Mirrors of greed: Elon Musk, OpenAI and the tech brat battle

The legal clash between Elon Musk and OpenAI exposes the profit-driven scramble shaping the future ...  
We trade with Asia yet our strategic priorities do not reflect it

Australia’s economic reality is anchored in Asia, but its strategic imagination is not keeping ...  
Frankenstein and AI: Innovation without accountability

The risk of AI is not innovation, but abandonment.  
Who's making money? The arsenal trade after Ukraine and Iran

Defence is no longer a defensive trade, and nowhere is the question of who's buying, who's bu ...  
Investigation
Australia’s 000 failures: Why your phone may fail to call Triple Zero

The regulatory and industry failures behind Australia’s Triple Zero outages were not only ...  
AUSTRAC tranche 2: Australia's toughest regulator to become its most hated?

A sweeping new compliance regime is about to land on tens of thousands of Australian small busi ...  
War on cash gets the nod after Cash-led Coalition backflip

Cash mandate regulations, which will make it harder to use cash, look set to go ahead after ...  
Hastie’s break with neoliberalism puts business on notice

With Liberal leadership aspirant Andrew Hastie expressing openly challenging "neoliberalism", ...  
The smart entrepreneur's checklist: Finance, legal and personal brand

Starting a business in Australia is more accessible than it has ever been. The barriers to regi ...  
Will the RBA choose a recession for Australia?

The Reserve Bank could kill talk of recession stone dead if it wanted to, writes Stephen Koukou ...  
Epicflow’s new portfolio optimiser enters trials with the Dutch MOD

Epicflow’s AI tool helps defence leaders deliver complex projects faster by prioritising work ...  
That’s feta! Europe signs up on trade deal while pushing for security

European Commission President Ursula von der Layen seemed more concerned with security and alli ...  
Satellite is no silver bullet: Our mobile networks still depend on fibre

Mobile isn’t truly wireless — every call depends on fibre and without it, the whole system ...  
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