Quantum has slipped out of the thought experiment phase and into the hard light of measurement, where patents, supply chains and state power matter as much as physics. read now...
Jim Chalmers was very eager to claim that the latest interest rate rise yesterday was not the government's fault, and it was open season on the (former) Coalition at the
The Albanese government’s announcement of a new Defence Delivery Agency is presented as a structural reform: merging three major acquisition and sustainment groups, establishing a new national armaments director, and clarifying ministerial accountability. It comes amid record peacetime defence expenditure and a pressing strategic environment. The ...
When I arranged to visit Mossmont Nurseries outside Griffith in the NSW Riverina, I pictured something like an expanded version of the garden centre at Bunnings. The reality is starkly different. In the words of Jonathan Moss, it’s “a tree factory”. Moss is a sixth-generation owner of this family business,
NSW public servants have scored a sector-wide pay annual bump of 4%, taking their full-time remuneration to a median of $110,266 in 2025 — up from $106,025 in 2024. The lift has put them proportionally ahead of the state’s health workers and teachers, but behind the total government sector
According to the Times, the BBC – strapped for cash as millions more stop paying the TV licence, and struggling to compete in a world dominated by high-gloss American ‘content’ – is brainstorming a portfolio of wizard wheezes to replenish its bank account. One of these, quite incredibly, could be the return of the radio licence. ‘BBC bosses are ...
English cricket, in its joyless pursuit of moral purity, has banned naughty jokes. There can be no other explanation for its punishment of Phillip Hodson, a man who has given his life to the summer game as player, administrator, and benefactor, and now finds himself fined £1,000.
Hodson, a former president of Marylebone Cricket Club, which owns Lord’s, ...
When US president Donald Trump hurled abuse at Colombia’s president Gustavo Petro last month, branding him a ‘sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States’, it was strikingly audacious. Trump leant into bombastic provocation: there is no evidence to suggest Petro himself makes cocaine. And yet, Trump’s claim didn’t come as a ...
It’s been a pretty terrible start to the week for the government. Amid mounting revelations from the Epstein files, the police are now probing claims that the former British ambassador Lord Mandelson committed misconduct in public office. Despite Mandy’s links to the disgraced sexual predator being already well-known in late 2024, Keir Starmer ...
One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson with former Senator Cory Bernardi One Nation Handout ImageAs Sussan Ley and David Littleproud are at a standoff in their attempts to mend the federal Coalition, Pauline Hanson has set up a real-time test for One Nation at the March 21 South Australian election.
NurPhoto / Getty ImagesIf you’re following AI on social media, even lightly, you will likely have come across OpenClaw. If not, you will have heard one of its previous names, Clawdbot or Moltbot. Despite its technical limitations, this tool has seen adoption at remarkable speeds, drawn its share of
Richard Pan/Pexels, CC BY-NC-NDTen years ago, if a heatwave as intense as last week’s record-breaker had hit the east coast, Australia’s power supply may well have buckled. But this time, the system largely operated as we needed, despite some outages. On Australia’s main grid last quarter, renewables and energy
Quantum has slipped out of the thought experiment phase and into the hard light of measurement, where patents, supply chains and state power matter as much as physics. read now...
Jim Chalmers was very eager to claim that the latest interest rate rise yesterday was not the government's fault, and it was open season on the (former) Coalition at the
The Albanese government’s announcement of a new Defence Delivery Agency is presented as a structural reform: merging three major acquisition and sustainment groups, establishing a new national armaments director, and clarifying ministerial accountability. It comes amid record peacetime defence expenditure and a pressing strategic environment. The ...
When I arranged to visit Mossmont Nurseries outside Griffith in the NSW Riverina, I pictured something like an expanded version of the garden centre at Bunnings. The reality is starkly different. In the words of Jonathan Moss, it’s “a tree factory”. Moss is a sixth-generation owner of this family business,
NSW public servants have scored a sector-wide pay annual bump of 4%, taking their full-time remuneration to a median of $110,266 in 2025 — up from $106,025 in 2024. The lift has put them proportionally ahead of the state’s health workers and teachers, but behind the total government sector
According to the Times, the BBC – strapped for cash as millions more stop paying the TV licence, and struggling to compete in a world dominated by high-gloss American ‘content’ – is brainstorming a portfolio of wizard wheezes to replenish its bank account. One of these, quite incredibly, could be the return of the radio licence. ‘BBC bosses are ...
English cricket, in its joyless pursuit of moral purity, has banned naughty jokes. There can be no other explanation for its punishment of Phillip Hodson, a man who has given his life to the summer game as player, administrator, and benefactor, and now finds himself fined £1,000.
Hodson, a former president of Marylebone Cricket Club, which owns Lord’s, ...
When US president Donald Trump hurled abuse at Colombia’s president Gustavo Petro last month, branding him a ‘sick man who likes making cocaine and selling it to the United States’, it was strikingly audacious. Trump leant into bombastic provocation: there is no evidence to suggest Petro himself makes cocaine. And yet, Trump’s claim didn’t come as a ...
It’s been a pretty terrible start to the week for the government. Amid mounting revelations from the Epstein files, the police are now probing claims that the former British ambassador Lord Mandelson committed misconduct in public office. Despite Mandy’s links to the disgraced sexual predator being already well-known in late 2024, Keir Starmer ...
One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson with former Senator Cory Bernardi One Nation Handout ImageAs Sussan Ley and David Littleproud are at a standoff in their attempts to mend the federal Coalition, Pauline Hanson has set up a real-time test for One Nation at the March 21 South Australian election.
NurPhoto / Getty ImagesIf you’re following AI on social media, even lightly, you will likely have come across OpenClaw. If not, you will have heard one of its previous names, Clawdbot or Moltbot. Despite its technical limitations, this tool has seen adoption at remarkable speeds, drawn its share of
Richard Pan/Pexels, CC BY-NC-NDTen years ago, if a heatwave as intense as last week’s record-breaker had hit the east coast, Australia’s power supply may well have buckled. But this time, the system largely operated as we needed, despite some outages. On Australia’s main grid last quarter, renewables and energy