Indonesia’s militaristic president Prabowo Subianto is seizing books which undermine his political agenda. Duncan Graham interviews author and historian Peter Carey. America’s vengeful President Donald Trump has been ruthlessly pursuing the Democrats, institutions and individuals he imagines have criticised him and ought to become enemies to ...
Australia is murdering people and threatening democracy. That’s the reality of Anthony Albanese kissing Donald Trump’s ring this week, writes Michael Pascoe. Let’s be clear about this. If you support a criminal gang, provide it with weapons, keep schtum about its crimes, either pay bribes or accept being extorted, you
Industrial scale wage theft is happening in Australia’s public universities, while Big 4 consultants rake in massive fees to prop up poor management. James Guthrie and Adam Lucas with the story. A $400m scandal affecting almost every public university in the country reveals a dysfunctional system hollowed out by corporate
Australia’s AI infrastructure opportunity does not hinge on copyright reforms to allow text and data mining for AI training, according to OpenAI’s vice-president of global affairs Chris Lehane. Speaking at SXSW Sydney ahead of meeting with government officials as work to develop an AI capability plan gathers pace, Mr Lehane
The Digital Transformation Agency has nearly doubled the reported cost of its previous whole-of-government cloud contract with Amazon Web Services months after it ended and was replaced with a new contact. The deal, which served as the federal government’s main contract with the cloud hyperscaler for three years until its
Services Australia officials on Friday testified they did not know which government agency is struggling under the weight of AI generated Freedom of Information requests, despite it being their own agency. In the latest setback to the Albanese government’s more restrictive FoI system, senior officials appeared unaware that Services Australia
Former Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk was this week appointed chair of the Advanced Materials and Battery Council, marking her first major industry role since leaving politics in 2023. The appointment sees the former Labor leader, who served as premier for nearly nine years, return
When Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese meets US President Donald Trump on Monday, the visit is expected to seal major big tech investment deals on artificial intelligence (AI) and data centres. In the lead-up, Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar (in his role as chair of the Tech Council of Australia) has
Australian chip developer Archer has inked a translation deal with research and development startup Emergence Quantum to work on graphene materials and devices. A new two phase commercialisation program with undisclosed financial terms will guide Archer’s R&D and porotype demonstration. It will focus on new graphene and carbon-based materials and
On face value, the Australian Industry and Defence Network is the only association that is paying more than lip-service to the representation of local companies on government procurement. Speaking at the National Press Club this week, the AIDN chief executive Mike Johnson called on Defence to re-write its definition of
Zionist doctors keep up their public campaign against healthcare workers whom they perceive to be critical of Israel’s conduct towards Palestinians. Wendy Bacon investigates. Five weeks after he attended a Palestinian Justice Movement forum in Sydney, Professor Peter Macdonald remains at home, away from heart transplant patients at St Vincent’s
Pain diseases impact more than a billion people around the world. This includes millions of people experiencing pain after surgery or chronic pain. And many of the current treatments for pain or either ineffective or come with a huge range of significant side effects.
Indonesia’s militaristic president Prabowo Subianto is seizing books which undermine his political agenda. Duncan Graham interviews author and historian Peter Carey. America’s vengeful President Donald Trump has been ruthlessly pursuing the Democrats, institutions and individuals he imagines have criticised him and ought to become enemies to ...
Australia is murdering people and threatening democracy. That’s the reality of Anthony Albanese kissing Donald Trump’s ring this week, writes Michael Pascoe. Let’s be clear about this. If you support a criminal gang, provide it with weapons, keep schtum about its crimes, either pay bribes or accept being extorted, you
Industrial scale wage theft is happening in Australia’s public universities, while Big 4 consultants rake in massive fees to prop up poor management. James Guthrie and Adam Lucas with the story. A $400m scandal affecting almost every public university in the country reveals a dysfunctional system hollowed out by corporate
Australia’s AI infrastructure opportunity does not hinge on copyright reforms to allow text and data mining for AI training, according to OpenAI’s vice-president of global affairs Chris Lehane. Speaking at SXSW Sydney ahead of meeting with government officials as work to develop an AI capability plan gathers pace, Mr Lehane
The Digital Transformation Agency has nearly doubled the reported cost of its previous whole-of-government cloud contract with Amazon Web Services months after it ended and was replaced with a new contact. The deal, which served as the federal government’s main contract with the cloud hyperscaler for three years until its
Services Australia officials on Friday testified they did not know which government agency is struggling under the weight of AI generated Freedom of Information requests, despite it being their own agency. In the latest setback to the Albanese government’s more restrictive FoI system, senior officials appeared unaware that Services Australia
Former Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk was this week appointed chair of the Advanced Materials and Battery Council, marking her first major industry role since leaving politics in 2023. The appointment sees the former Labor leader, who served as premier for nearly nine years, return
When Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese meets US President Donald Trump on Monday, the visit is expected to seal major big tech investment deals on artificial intelligence (AI) and data centres. In the lead-up, Atlassian co-founder Scott Farquhar (in his role as chair of the Tech Council of Australia) has
Australian chip developer Archer has inked a translation deal with research and development startup Emergence Quantum to work on graphene materials and devices. A new two phase commercialisation program with undisclosed financial terms will guide Archer’s R&D and porotype demonstration. It will focus on new graphene and carbon-based materials and
On face value, the Australian Industry and Defence Network is the only association that is paying more than lip-service to the representation of local companies on government procurement. Speaking at the National Press Club this week, the AIDN chief executive Mike Johnson called on Defence to re-write its definition of
Zionist doctors keep up their public campaign against healthcare workers whom they perceive to be critical of Israel’s conduct towards Palestinians. Wendy Bacon investigates. Five weeks after he attended a Palestinian Justice Movement forum in Sydney, Professor Peter Macdonald remains at home, away from heart transplant patients at St Vincent’s
Pain diseases impact more than a billion people around the world. This includes millions of people experiencing pain after surgery or chronic pain. And many of the current treatments for pain or either ineffective or come with a huge range of significant side effects.