1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1009+ words) While newsrooms provoke fear and anxiety about concocted “crises”, life is better than ever, as Alan Austin reports. THE SHONKS AND LIARS in the mainstream newsrooms want Australians to believe the economy is struggling – the opposite of the truth. They…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (962+ words) Australia’s proposed algorithm opt-out would give social media users greater control over what they see, without restricting what anyone can say. Wayne Hawkins writes. THERE WAS A TIME, not that long ago, when opening a social media app meant seeing…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (670+ words) The NBN is delivering its high-capacity vision but the bottleneck may be an ageing router, poor Wi-Fi coverage or the location of the equipment, writes Paul Budde. FOR MOST OF ITS HISTORY, debate about the National Broadband Network (NBN) has…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (727+ words) Small everyday changes can help businesses build a greener workplace and reduce their environmental footprint, writes Md. Nafis Anowar Santo. WE ARE LIVING through an extraordinary period of technological growth. New gadgets and digital services are becoming part of everyday life…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (651+ words) Ukraine's battlefield AI is exposing a dangerous surveillance gap that could reach Australian citizens through AUKUS, writes Professor Vince Hooper. WHEN A GOVERNMENT describes a foreign military archive as a ‘goldmine’, it is worth paying attention to the metaphor. Goldmines…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (758+ words) Foreign technology companies invest billions of dollars here; the question, writes Paul Budde, is how much of the value created by this next digital economy can Australia capture? SINGTEL'S CONSIDERATION of bringing a minority Australian investor into Optus might look…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (615+ words) Domestic roaming is not a complete solution, but it is an essential part of a resilient communications framework, writes Paul Budde. The ACCC HAS ANNOUNCED a 12-month inquiry into regional mobile coverage, including whether domestic mobile roaming and greater access…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1416+ words) On 27 July 2026, Australia's Modern Slavery Statements Register carried 17,543 statements. The entities filing them keep headquarters in 70 countries and the statements cover 28,108 entities between them. That test drives the ranking below, which weighs the repository and the workflow keeping it current…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (1431+ words) APRA's CPS 230 stopped being tomorrow's problem on 1 July 2026. That date ended the transitional relief smaller financial institutions had on business continuity and scenario analysis, and it closed the last polite excuse for running operational risk out of spreadsheets. Privacy Act…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (422+ words) Independent Australia...