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Federal Budget reveals Australia’s mounting digital technical debt

The Budget focuses on maintaining increasingly complex digital systems, managing cyber risk and ...  
Why political diversity lags as ethnic diversity rises in Australia

An examination of immigration, demographics, media influence and electoral systems asks whether ...  
Nature on life support: Budget cuts fuel biodiversity crisis

Labor’s Budget priorities are under fire as conservation groups warn biodiversity funding cuts ...  
The long drive from Esperance to Broome: What regional Australia looks like when the network drops

A field report from the Esperance-Karijini-Broome corridor, where small operators, single-lane ...  
Caroline Graham’s enduring legacy of resistance and activism

The life and legacy of activist Caroline Graham reflects decades of struggle across feminism ...  
Rising AI budgets, falling outcomes: Why enterprise initiatives keep stalling

Australian boardrooms are spending more on AI than ever before, yet the return on that spend keeps ...  
Indexing income tax scales — another bad idea from the Coalition

The Coalition’s plan to index income tax scales to inflation may sound fair on paper, but ...  
Functional finance: The cure for inflation without unemployment

An alternative economic model could tackle inflation through fiscal policy instead of interest ...  
Labor Government playing dicey politics with immigration management

The Government’s reluctance to confront mounting visa backlogs and migration pressures risks ...  
Four more things Australia can do to arrest house prices

Australia’s housing crisis is often blamed on tax incentives like negative gearing and the CGT ...  
Albanese’s springboard for even greater triumphs

Last week’s courageous budget could portend an era of substantial achievement.  
Pool services as preventive care for safer and healthier water

A swimming pool can look simple when the water is clear and the surface is free of leaves. That ...  
Insurance strategy for Australian SMEs in a disruption era

A practical guide for Australian SMEs building an insurance strategy across regulatory, cyber, and ...  
The photographer who got away the day Danny Kaye was front page news

Some of my best photos were hard won — like this one I took of Danny Kaye when he came to ...  
Breaking cycles of disadvantage: Australia versus global economic models

Breaking cycles of disadvantage is a test of a society’s commitment to fairness and human ...  
Gold for Australia! How 'people power' toppled Trump's GC Tower

Craig Hill, the man who brought the Trump Tower crumbling down, explains how he – along with ...  
JEFF MCMULLEN:  Sleeping rough in the "Lucky Country"

To achieve any semblance of equality in Australia, we urgently need greater ambition, creative ...  
Curated accounts conveyed to Royal Commission without context

Hyperpartisan accounts of curated, centred lived experience omit key facts at the Royal Commission ...  
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