Toxic culture has plunged the Bureau of Meteorology into chaos
The workplace […]
The workplace […]
Australia has some of the best, most liveable cities in the world.
Our cities—regional and metropolitan—are also where most Australians live and where most of our economic output is produced.
As our economy continues to transition and our knowledge based industries grow, so too do our cities.
It is claimed that Abraham Lincoln once said, ‘You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.’
Now, whether or not Honest Abe […]
In another foretaste of potential future ‘carbon allowance’ limits, a major bank in Australia has introduced a new feature that links purchases to a customer’s carbon footprint and warns them when they are going over the average.
Australia’s Commonwealth Bank (CBA) has […]
The deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently explained how Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDC) can be programmed to determine what people are allowed to buy and insisted they should be used alongside a China-style Social Credit Score system.
Unlike cryptocurrency, which is private, Central Bank Digital […]
Elon Musk has just six weeks before beverage giant PepsiCo takes delivery of the first Tesla Semi, an all-electric class 8 truck — and a new video posted online of a seemingly broken down prototype truck on a highway in Northern California may suggest some kinks need to be worked out before production […]
The blades from environmentally friendly subsidised bird- and bat-chomping inefficient wind turbines have a short life and cannot be recycled. They weigh 10-20 tonnes, are 40-60 metres long, need to be replaced every 15 years or less and are composed of plastic, fibreglass, balsa wood and resins. Balsa wood is produced by chopping […]
Melbourne City Council has employed Chief Heat Officers to fight the, um, heat.
The council, which declared a climate […]
We all know politicians love to hobnob with wealthy elites. Is it so far-fetched to imagine a cabal of premiers and their advisers in a secret Facebook group, coordinating policy announcements? As far as we know, that never happened, but there were extraordinary announcements by […]
Corporations and utopians are offering authoritarian solutions to crises only democracy and free markets can solve
Deloitte is the largest “professional services network” in the world. Headquartered in London, it is also one of the big four global accounting companies, offering audit, consulting, risk advisory, tax and legal services […]