Clayton Heinrich has owned his 1,000-hectare farm in the locality of Bright in South Australia’s Mid North for more than 40 years. He said the once-clear horizon of his retirement property had changed dramatically over the past three years, and his plans were now uncertain. “I used to get people out here to have a…
A former high-level mining executive has been denied bail after facing court charged with possessing child exploitation material overseas and distributing indecent material to children. The Mackay Magistrates Court heard on June 17 that, between 2022 and 2024, an Australian Federal Police investigation allegedly found Ole Saeverud to be in possession of multiple instances of…
When Wolfram actor Joe Bird experiences déjà vu, it’s next level. The last time he travelled to the Sundance Film Festival, a bidding war broke out over the Philippou brothers’ hot-ticket horror, Talk to Me. Fast facts about Leviticus What: The latest buzzy Australian horror movie going off internationally Directed by: Adrian Chiarella Starring: Joe…
Energy industry voices are warning that the business case for Marinus Link appears increasingly unviable if power-hungry players such as AI data centres continue to expand across Tasmania. Firmus Technologies, a Singapore-based company led by co-founders Oliver Curtis and Tim Rosenfield, has designs on using a significant portion of Tasmania’s energy to power three AI…
Australia’s financial industry needs to prepare for a “more shock-prone future” in the age of foreign interference and cyber attacks, a Reserve Bank official has warned. The new era of strategic uncertainty has serious implications for Australia, and the financial industry has to develop more crisis and contingency plans for extreme, but plausible, geopolitical scenarios,…
Health technology leaders in Saskatchewan say they have answers to some of the province’s most pressing health care challenges, but require more collaboration from the government to advance their innovations. The half-dozen technology founders and innovators shared their perspectives with the province’s health minister on the benefits of working with Saskatchewan leaders in the sector…
Can democracy survive the existence of trillionaires? French economist Gabriel Zucman, one of the world’s foremost experts on wealth taxation, raised that question last week. He said anyone celebrating Elon Musk’s US$1 trillion fortune needed to understand the fundamental tension between extreme wealth and the very possibility of democracy. “The explosion of billionaire wealth has…
They let them on the field at the end and the true believers spilled down from the hill and onto the turf. Some people came prepared and brought footballs they could kick with their children. Others just fell to their knees and kissed the grass. One man poured out a little bit of the last…
It’s a strange twist of fate that Cameron Munster has never won a State of Origin match in his adopted home town of Melbourne. In his ten series as a Maroon, it’s about the only place Munster hasn’t tasted victory. He has hoisted the colours behind enemy lines in Sydney and at the blood temple…
In 2010, around the time of Tesla’s Initial Public Offering (IPO), an acquaintance proudly showed me his red Tesla Roadster, the first imported into Australia. It was a fine little rocket, the first electric vehicle of the modern era, discontinued in 2012 having provided the engineering and financial foundations for the Model S and, eventually,…