The Frontier
The Wager Without a Date
Australia's $940 million quantum bet broke ground 26 months after the money. The machine was promised for 2027. Nobody has had to say the new date out loud.
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Media Machinations
The Toll Gate on an Emptying Road
The News Bargaining Incentive is law. Our May amendments went one and a half for four. The one that lost decides the decade.
Governance Lab
The Wall They Left Standing
Canberra has spent four months demolishing its own startup tax gates, one backlash at a time. One wall remains, and the full blueprint has been on the shelf since 2010.
Innovation History
The Mould That Came Home
How a tank-corps veterinarian gave Australia the world's first civilian penicillin, and what the country did with the industry he built
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Governance Lab
The Ambition Deficit
Build Australia goes public, six years of wage growth goes missing, and the case for sourcing policy from the country's most ambitious rather than its most credentialled