Australia’s business pages in 2025 were on the spicier side, as controversies across retail, tech, consulting and policy certainly brought out the trust issues in the sector. Across the year, there were major data breaches, court actions over wage underpayments, startup failures, consumer safety interventions and the closure of long-running business support programs. Here’s a… Read more »
Reactions to the government’s consultation paper on the proposed news bargaining incentive have begun trickling in — and US tech lobby groups aren’t happy. Several Washington-based trade associations have warned the incentive is inconsistent with Australia’s free trade commitments with the US, and one lobby group has warned US President Donald Trump could be moved… Read more »
All too often, those of us living in the ‘remote colonies’ consider ourselves too small to make any real difference on the world stage. And yet, according to global media outlets, Australia’s grassroots campaign to ban social media for under-16s is the most important piece of legislation in the world right now. Jonathan Haidt, whose… Read more »
Despite the continued strained economic climate, we’ve seen some big chunks of change thrown around in 2025. While early-stage funding stayed constrained for much of the year, large cheques concentrated around a smaller group of companies certainly prevailed. In some cases, twice. These were some of the largest Australian startup raises of 2025, and the… Read more »
It’s almost too daunting a task to summarise a year that could be best represented by this….. The long blood donation lines (hours long wait for many) to help the Bondi shooting victims. If there is an image that can truly sum up this year full of chaos, violence, war and fragile peace, technological advances… Read more »
Grifters and scammers are trying to cash in on the Bondi Beach terrorist attack by launching speculative cryptocurrencies and fake fundraisers, even celebrating when the value of a coin using the likeness of the 10-year-old victim of the mass shooting spiked after launching. As is typically the case around any major news event, opportunistic people… Read more »
When CSIRO announced it would shed hundreds of research positions, the narrative was predictable: another casualty of budget cuts, another blow to Australian science, another sign that we don’t value research. But perhaps the question shouldn’t be whether Australia invests enough in research, but whether we’re getting enough return from the research we already fund. Or have we been optimising for the wrong metric? The research scoreboard Australia’s research ecosystem has… Read more »
The end of the year means holiday celebrations, summer breaks … and for us, one important thing: best books lists. We asked 35 expert readers for their favourite picks, ranging from novelists to anthropologists, scientists to criminologists – and experts in politics, publishing and philosophy. The only rule? The book had to be published this… Read more »
By age 12, your political operating system is encoded. Everything after is confirmation bias with better vocabulary. This is not cynicism. This is archaeology. Dig into any 50-year-old’s beliefs and you will find layers deposited at the kitchen table, in the schoolyard, at church or synagogue or mosque, in the neighborhood where they learned who… Read more »
Bondi is beautiful tonight. And not because of its beaches, its sunset, its people, its fun. It’s beautiful because you in your thousands, in your defiance, in your resistance and resolve, you have returned to these sands just seven days after a shocking crime, and have said to the terrorists, we are going nowhere. This… Read more »
It’s one of the most absurd ways to end a videogame. In the original The Outer Worlds, the fastest way to finish is to fly a spaceship into the sun. To do this, you need to create a low-intelligence character, and then when prompted insist that you personally – instead of an AI – will… Read more »
As a Bondi resident for almost 10 years, the past few days have been hard to process. The terrorist attack that rocked Bondi last Sunday has left many of us struggling, still processing the horror and the impact on our community. My heart goes out to the victims, their families, the survivors, the Jewish community,… Read more »
Much like the past two years, December is proving to be popular for VC funding. This week saw $93.1 million spread across energy infrastructure, agtech, legal AI and more. IND Technology: $50 million IND Technology founder Alan Wong. Source: IND Technology Leading this week’s funding round-up is energy technology startup IND Technology, which has raised… Read more »
In the wake of Sunday’s tragic Bondi shooting, conspiracy theories and deliberate misinformation have spread on social media. Many social media posts suggested the name Naveed Akram was searched before the Bondi attacks. Facebook One thing some people have latched onto is the idea Google Trends data show a spike in searches for “Naveed Akram”… Read more »
Most of this year’s Game of the Year nominees are missing basic accessibility features, exposing how industry layoffs and budget cuts are pushing inclusion to the sidelines. Five years ago, former Nintendo of America CEO Reggie Fils-Aimé’s smiling face was projected onto a large screen at The Game Awards as he presented their very first… Read more »
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