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32 issues published
  1. Oct 6, 2026

    The Wager Without a Date

    Australia's $940 million quantum bet broke ground 26 months after the money. The machine was promised for 2027. Nobody has had to say the new date out loud.

    7 min read · The Frontier
  2. Sep 21, 2026

    The Toll Gate on an Emptying Road

    The News Bargaining Incentive is law. Our May amendments went one and a half for four. The one that lost decides the decade.

    6 min read · Media Machinations
  3. Sep 11, 2026

    The Wall They Left Standing

    Canberra has spent four months demolishing its own startup tax gates, one backlash at a time. One wall remains, and the full blueprint has been on the shelf since 2010.

    6 min read · Governance Lab
  4. Sep 4, 2026

    The Mould That Came Home

    How a tank-corps veterinarian gave Australia the world's first civilian penicillin, and what the country did with the industry he built

    6 min read · Innovation History
  5. Aug 29, 2026

    The Ambition Deficit

    Build Australia goes public, six years of wage growth goes missing, and the case for sourcing policy from the country's most ambitious rather than its most credentialled

    8 min read · Governance Lab
  6. Aug 20, 2026

    The Helplessness Was Never Learned

    A fifty-year scientific mistake, an Australian counter-record, and the five moves that teach control

    10 min read · Builders & Operators
  7. Aug 10, 2026

    Pilot Purgatory

    Australian institutions have learned to buy proof instead of products, and founders are paying the difference

    7 min read · Builders & Operators
  8. Aug 5, 2026

    The Machinery of the Middle

    Australia's top industrial-policy advisers have found the missing middle again, and asked that it be recognised as a distinct cohort.

    8 min read · Governance Lab
  9. Jul 28, 2026

    The Cheapest Room in the Blueprint

    In March, Ambitious Australia handed Canberra a 20-recommendation redesign of the national innovation system. Last week the government gave its first structural answer: it renovated the wing it already owned.

    8 min read · Governance Lab
  10. Jul 20, 2026

    The Red Egg

    Australia invented the black box, was told to get on with blowing up fuel tanks, and let Britain build it. In a fortnight, Brussels mandates flight recorders for AI.

    9 min read · Innovation History
  11. Jul 14, 2026

    The Claude Nation, and the Institutions That Never Arrived

    Australia is number one in the world at using AI. Our policy stack is still writing the risk register.

    7 min read · Governance Lab
  12. Jul 6, 2026

    The Tape Is Talking. Are We Listening?

    FY26 wrap: ASX 200 +2.77%, Materials +47%. Two Australias. Extractive paid, converting mediocre.

    8 min read · Governance Lab
  13. Jun 29, 2026

    The Grid AI Will Need

    On the 24th of June, Australia's system operator stopped treating compute as a line item in business demand and made it a separately modelled driver of the national electricity plan

    9 min read · The Frontier
  14. Jun 23, 2026

    What KPMG's day in Canberra exposed

    Friday in the Main Committee Room was not a story about bad apples. It was a story about the barrel

    9 min read · Governance Lab
  15. Jun 15, 2026

    The Window is Closed

    Did Australia just sleep through its sovereign AI moment?

    7 min read · The Frontier
  16. Jun 8, 2026

    The Orchestra in a Green Box

    Stevie Wonder, Kate Bush, Page R, and the second life in post-production

    18 min read · Innovation History
  17. Jun 1, 2026

    The Disarmament Clause

    Magnifica Humanitas is a governance intervention that competes directly with Brussels, Washington and Geneva for control of the frame.

    13 min read · Governance Lab
  18. May 25, 2026

    In: $200M. Out: 450 Journalists. Why?

    How a levy designed to save journalism became a transfer to the four companies that already captured the first one.

    9 min read · Media Machinations
  19. May 18, 2026

    Hidden Levers in Budget 2026-2027

    Founders say the Budget punishes risk-takers. The numbers show additional nuance the media misses.

    13 min read · Governance Lab
  20. May 11, 2026

    Australia's 9 Fix Everything Switches

    Australia's malaise is a switching problem, not a money problem. Nine levers already exist in legislation, regulation, or signed agreements. Pull them.

    10 min read · Governance Lab