• Education and Training

    Citizenship education and the struggle over values


    Bede Harris |  October 8, 2026


    The concept of citizenship should encompass both individual liberty and communal responsibility and be taught in schools to inform and elevate political debate.


  • Defence and Security

    Rapid reaction


    John Coyne |  October 8, 2026


    Armies have measured advantage through industrial capacity, force structure and technological superiority since the American Civil War but advantage in the future may depend increasingly on how quickly a land force can regenerate combat effectiveness after circumstances, technology or adversaries have invalidated its assumptions.


  • Society

    Safeguarding agency IT from AI intrusion


    Rajiv Shah |  October 8, 2026


    The Government has asked its agencies to identify and manage the security risks posed by intrusive AI agents to legacy IT systems but the hard part will be acting on what the stocktake finds.


Latest Story

  • The US Patriot Act: Myth v. Reality

    Mr Jeff Bullwinkel     |      August 25, 2011

    Today, computer users – ranging from individual consumers, to small and medium-sized businesses, to the largest enterprises – are excited about the opportunities presented by cloud computing.  And for good reason.  Innovations in cloud technologies represent a seismic shift in the IT industry and are poised to transform our relationship with computers, just as we transitioned from mainframes to desktop PCs in the 1980s. 

    As consumers, we’ve been accustomed for many years already to using cloud computing on a daily basis, whether through internet banking, web-based e-mail such as Hotmail, or the use of social media networks. 

  • Australian patients name financial pressure as top cause of cancer

    Freddy Sitas     |      August 25, 2011

  • Cloud Computing: To have your data everywhere and nowhere

    Marcus Moufarrige     |      August 24, 2011

    Marcus Moufarrige, Chief Information Officer & General Manager for Asia, Servcorp, delivered the following address at Global Access Partner’s Workshop on Cloud Computing in Sydney on Friday 24 June 2011.

    I’m going to get my politics out of the way first, because I know that there are a lot of government people present here. I think that as we go forward into the cloud there needs to be a sensible approach, and that government should be focused around policy and not necessarily building an enormous cloud and investing money into that.

  • Literacy for life!

    Chris Stone     |      August 23, 2011

    This week is Speech Pathology Week – a week in which speech pathologists all over Australia are asking you to stop and reflect on literacy and how it’s shaped your life.

  • Litter…dropped on land, kills at sea

    Lara Shannon     |      August 21, 2011