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Australia needs AI skills — not just more data centres

Data-centre approvals should reflect demonstrable demand, energy availability and rapidly changing ...  
Trump’s man in Canberra brings God, markets and AUKUS

Trump’s new ambassador brings his evangelical faith, free-market creed and unwavering support ...  
Big Tech tightens its grip on Australia’s undersea cables

As Google and Meta expand their control of vital undersea infrastructure, Australia risks surre ...  
Why wealth matters and why Australia is a world leader

Australia’s high and relatively evenly distributed wealth underpins living standards and leaves ...  
Gaza war fuels hatred and division at home in Australia

The war in Gaza is fuelling hatred, division and violence far beyond the Middle East, with Aust ...  
Forest carbon scheme puts Great Koala National Park at risk

A Federal Government controversial forest carbon scheme is raising fears that conservation is ...  
Flailing newsrooms stymied by household luxury spending splurge

Multiple reports from the statutory authorities confirm living standards for all Australians are ...  
Peter Moon — a 'very unattractive', pretty funny comedian

Posed here as a "derro" in a back lane in South Melbourne, comedian Peter Moon is well-know ...  
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 ...  
Obscene wealth: Money and political power accumulated by a minuscule few

The average billionaire generates around one million times more carbon emissions than the average ...  
Pauline Hanson and Barnaby Joyce: Hypocrisy is thy name

Parliamentary expenses show extraordinary waste from anti-waste campaigners Pauline Hanson and ...  
Most popular HR & HRIS systems in Australia for 2026 

Popularity gets thrown around loosely in HR software, so it pays to anchor it in something you can ...  
How smarter garden planning can help Australian homes adapt to climate change

The classic Australian backyard – big lawn, English hedge, maybe a rose bed – made sense when ...  
Forty-three years after Hawke, Australia needs a new economic debate

More than four decades after the Hawke-Keating Accord reshaped Australia's economy, it's time for ...  
Disclosure Day reveals that aliens aren't the real outsiders

On the surface, Steven Spielberg's latest can be taken as a sci-fi thriller with a message, but ...  
CARTOONS: The AUKUS caucus is decidedly raucous!

Meanwhile, in the U.S., Donald Trump's approval ratings appear to be tanking.  
Australia's sanctions aren't stopping Israel's settler funding

Despite three rounds of sanctions, Israel's financial support for the settler movement Aust ...  
Big Tech: When 1984 meets The Godfather

The development of AI is inevitable, but when Nineteen Eighty-Four meets The Godfather in real ...  
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