Infrastructure
Digital sovereignty and the danger of the off switch

Australia's future should not depend on the goodwill of any single foreign government or comp ...  
Telstra outage reveals a dangerous gap in Australia's digital resilience

The Telstra outage exposed a bigger problem than a software fault: Australia's telecommunicatio ...  
The Starlink challenge: Australia's next hyperscaler problem

Starlink's long-term ambitions appear to extend well beyond telecommunications access.  
End of an era: Australia's NBN watchdog can finally stand down

NBN watchdog closure signals that the broadband performance problems that prompted its creation ...  
Gina is generous with other people's money

Gina Rinehart's plan for Australia is a holy trinity of sorts: microchips, Elon Musk’s comm ...  
Telcos: Australia's greatest infrastructure success under attack

Telecommunications have transformed Australians' lives, but they remain under attack from medi ...  
AI is not just technology — it’s reshaping society in ways we don’t control

AI is transforming society: Will humanity shape that transformation or be shaped by it?  
Why we have a housing crisis and why government cannot fix the problem

Australia's housing crisis is a violation of basic human rights and international law.  
Federal Budget reveals Australia’s mounting digital technical debt

The Budget focuses on maintaining increasingly complex digital systems, managing cyber risk and ...  
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 ...  
I owe, I owe

The working poor are not a statistic at the margins of the Australian economy. They are load-be ...  
The next war is about compute — and Australia isn’t ready

Relying on global cloud providers and having no national strategy, what could possibly go wrong ...  
Energy and sovereignty will decide Australia's AI future, not algorithms

The AI debate has moved beyond algorithms & applications; it's now about infrastructure & energy ...  
Funding, advantage and Australian schools: Why inequality persists despite reform

Education funding is now more about sustaining advantage than addressing need.  
Frankenstein and AI: Innovation without accountability

The risk of AI is not innovation, but abandonment.  
From Starlink to the state: When platform monopolies become political power

As digital infrastructure concentrates in a handful of tech giants, private platform monopolies ...  
Profits before people: How neoliberalism is hardwiring AI for chaos

The real danger of artificial intelligence is not the code itself, but the economic system driving ...  
Australia’s telecom expansion still paying for NBN policy mistakes

Despite rising data use and network growth, structural flaws in the NBN continue to shape affor ...  

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