Archive
- Sep 4, 2026
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
- Aug 29, 2026
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
- Aug 20, 2026
The Helplessness Was Never Learned
A fifty-year scientific mistake, an Australian counter-record, and the five moves that teach control
- Aug 10, 2026
Pilot Purgatory
Australian institutions have learned to buy proof instead of products, and founders are paying the difference
- Aug 5, 2026
The Machinery of the Middle
Australia's top industrial-policy advisers have found the missing middle again, and asked that it be recognised as a distinct cohort.
- Jul 28, 2026
The Cheapest Room in the Blueprint
In March, Ambitious Australia handed Canberra a 20-recommendation redesign of the national innovation system. Last week the government gave its first structural answer: it renovated the wing it already owned.
- Jul 20, 2026
The Red Egg
Australia invented the black box, was told to get on with blowing up fuel tanks, and let Britain build it. In a fortnight, Brussels mandates flight recorders for AI.
- Jul 14, 2026
The Claude Nation, and the Institutions That Never Arrived
Australia is number one in the world at using AI. Our policy stack is still writing the risk register.
- Jul 6, 2026
The Tape Is Talking. Are We Listening?
FY26 wrap: ASX 200 +2.77%, Materials +47%. Two Australias. Extractive paid, converting mediocre.
- Jun 29, 2026
The Grid AI Will Need
On the 24th of June, Australia's system operator stopped treating compute as a line item in business demand and made it a separately modelled driver of the national electricity plan
- Jun 23, 2026
What KPMG's day in Canberra exposed
Friday in the Main Committee Room was not a story about bad apples. It was a story about the barrel
- Jun 15, 2026
The Window is Closed
Did Australia just sleep through its sovereign AI moment?
- Jun 8, 2026
The Orchestra in a Green Box
Stevie Wonder, Kate Bush, Page R, and the second life in post-production
- Jun 1, 2026
The Disarmament Clause
Magnifica Humanitas is a governance intervention that competes directly with Brussels, Washington and Geneva for control of the frame.
- May 25, 2026
In: $200M. Out: 450 Journalists. Why?
How a levy designed to save journalism became a transfer to the four companies that already captured the first one.
- May 18, 2026
Hidden Levers in Budget 2026-2027
Founders say the Budget punishes risk-takers. The numbers show additional nuance the media misses.
- May 11, 2026
Australia's 9 Fix Everything Switches
Australia's malaise is a switching problem, not a money problem. Nine levers already exist in legislation, regulation, or signed agreements. Pull them.
- May 4, 2026
Beat America, Lost Anyway
How Australia won the world's landing system — and lost the airline
- Apr 27, 2026
The Firm Is The Trace
When AI agents become the org chart, the asset that matters is the record of every decision they make.
- Apr 20, 2026
The Scaffolding of Shared Knowledge
When the architecture of collective decision-making is redesigned, the tools we inherit stop being neutral.
- Apr 12, 2026
The War Games We Teach Our Machines
AI systems choose nuclear escalation in simulations — and machines are learning to lie for each other
- Apr 6, 2026
After the Applause
Why successful exits leave founders empty, plus Australia's rise in tech policy infrastructure
- Mar 30, 2026
Sinew & Silicon
How a national sporting humiliation built the world's most advanced athlete-tracking industry, and how to affects the machinery reading other living things.
- Mar 24, 2026
The Froth That Built The World
The bubbles from Broken Hill that were strong enough to rest modern civilisation
- Mar 16, 2026
The Invisible Hand Behind Innovation
Institutions drive innovations - the right formal and informal policies result in people coming together in the right way to create new ideas.
- Mar 11, 2026
How Steel & Nitrogen (Invisibly) Shaped the Modern World
The steel boxes, chemical reactions, and engineered grains that built the modern world.
- Mar 2, 2026
Sustained Growth and its Motivations
The power of innovation for sustained economic growth: what Australia can learn from Sweden & Turning the tide of political fuel
- Feb 23, 2026
Political Chemistry
New measurements lead to new results
- Feb 5, 2026
Indigenous Innovation, Place-Based Futures
Old and new innovation on Country. New member initiatives.