An independent review of Australia’s online safety laws has flagged a new way to disrupt the revenue of social media companies like X as part of changes that would...
Policy
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A national firearms register will be developed by Australia’s criminal intelligence agency following a $161.3 million commitment from the federal government. The funding will be included in the federal...
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The head of the Australia’s $15 billion industry fund has thrown his support behind the more interventionist approach of the Albanese government, as he prepares to turn on the...
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The people who used to be at the forefront of climate change scepticism, having failed in that attempt, have found a new strategy: to catastrophise the response to the...
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In 1653 Oliver Cromwell gave a speech dissolving the House of Parliament. He didn’t hold back. “Ye have grown intolerably odious to the whole nation” he thundered to the...
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Do Australian courts have the right to decide what foreign citizens, located overseas, view online on a foreign-owned platform? Anyone inclined to answer ‘yes’ to this question should perhaps...
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Organisations developing dual-use technologies like quantum computing, lasers, sensors, aerospace and propulsion systems will gain easier imports from the US after Australia received a licencing exemption from American regulations....
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For years, climate crisis experts and amateurs alike repeatedly told us to ‘Follow the Science’. Most of us couldn’t do that, even when we tried. But virtually everyone publicly...
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The federal government must quadruple funding to its innovation procurement program and establish a public sector accelerator to bring down the walls around government contracts for smaller firms, according...
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The business case for a national skills “passport” is being developed by tech services giant Accenture, as the Albanese government warms to a concept proposed decades ago to inject...
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Global corporations and new technology investors pick winners all the time. But the ones who are good at it have worked out ways to do it without picking too...
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Ask anyone what drives civilisational progress and typically the answer that comes back is science and technology. It’s generally true. But technology is a second order effect of energy....
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The NSW government will swing the axe on the Department of Enterprise, Investment and Trade and subsume its industry, innovation, trade and investment functions into the Premier’s department. In...
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In rolling out his government’s response to the massive industrial subsidies being offered in the United States through its Inflation Reduction Act, you couldn’t accuse Anthony Albanese of being...