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Predetermination: the Budget Built Without Asking

Australians are witnessing the confidence of a government that believes it already knows the answer, and so need not ask the question.

The 2026–27 Budget’s tax package—the largest restructuring of personal taxation since the Ralph Review o...

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Ambitious Australia Part 2: An Updated Framework

In our earlier assessment of the Ambitious Australia (AA) report, we had identified six structural failures: (1) the procurement system’s built-in alibis, (2) the missing foundational manufacturing base, (3) a workforce pipeline without a d...

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Threat, tool, temptation

Australia’s first great algorithmic scandal contained no artificial intelligence at all.

Robodebt was, at its technical core, almost embarrassingly simple: annual income averaged across fortnights, a presumption of guilt automated at scale...

14 days ago
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Ambitious Australia Part 1: Australia's R&D Charity

Part one of two on the Ambitious Australia report and the 2026–27 Federal Budget

Australia generates roughly three per cent of the world’s new knowledge from 0.3 per cent of its population. That’s genuinely remarkable—and damning. Because...

18 days ago
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The Other Trillion-Dollar Debt

Sometime in the current forward estimates, Commonwealth gross debt passes $1.2 trillion. The figure will be condemned by the opposition, defended by the treasurer, and converted by both into the usual theatre of fiscal rectitude. Treat the...

19 days ago
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