Archive
- Jul 6, 2026
The Tape Is Talking. Are We Listening?
FY26 wrap: ASX 200 +2.77%, Materials +47%. Two Australias. Extractive paid, converting mediocre.
- 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
- 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
- Jun 15, 2026
The Window is Closed
Did Australia just sleep through its sovereign AI moment?
- Jun 8, 2026
The Orchestra in a Green Box
Stevie Wonder, Kate Bush, Page R, and the second life in post-production
- 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.
- 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.
- May 18, 2026
Hidden Levers in Budget 2026-2027
Founders say the Budget punishes risk-takers. The numbers show additional nuance the media misses.
- 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.
- May 4, 2026
Beat America, Lost Anyway
How Australia won the world's landing system — and lost the airline
- Apr 27, 2026
The Firm Is The Trace
When AI agents become the org chart, the asset that matters is the record of every decision they make.
- Apr 20, 2026
The Scaffolding of Shared Knowledge
When the architecture of collective decision-making is redesigned, the tools we inherit stop being neutral.
- Apr 12, 2026
The War Games We Teach Our Machines
AI systems choose nuclear escalation in simulations — and machines are learning to lie for each other
- Apr 6, 2026
After the Applause
Why successful exits leave founders empty, plus Australia's rise in tech policy infrastructure
- Mar 30, 2026
Sinew & Silicon
How a national sporting humiliation built the world's most advanced athlete-tracking industry, and how to affects the machinery reading other living things.
- Mar 24, 2026
The Froth That Built The World
The bubbles from Broken Hill that were strong enough to rest modern civilisation
- Mar 16, 2026
The Invisible Hand Behind Innovation
Institutions drive innovations - the right formal and informal policies result in people coming together in the right way to create new ideas.
- Mar 11, 2026
How Steel & Nitrogen (Invisibly) Shaped the Modern World
The steel boxes, chemical reactions, and engineered grains that built the modern world.
- Mar 2, 2026
Sustained Growth and its Motivations
The power of innovation for sustained economic growth: what Australia can learn from Sweden & Turning the tide of political fuel
- Feb 23, 2026
Political Chemistry
New measurements lead to new results