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AI data centre boom masks a far greater threat

The data centre boom is fuelling an AI race with potentially catastrophic consequences.  
Meta pays billions, but its addictive business model survives

Meta will pay up to US$18 billion to settle American legal claims that Facebook and Instagram ...  
Mobile roaming must be part of Australia’s communications resilience

Australia needs a layered communications system in which different technologies and providers can ...  
Physical media is dying as corporations seize control

As physical media disappears, corporations are gaining unprecedented control over what consumers ...  
Fiducian’s $7.3 million penalty exposes the limits of green finance

Fiducian’s $7.3 million greenwashing penalty exposes how green finance can mask continued ...  
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 ...  
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