Category: Technology

Australian Digital Identity: Six Simple Questions

A national digital identity is being prepared for all Australians for use at the end of next year. It poses one of the biggest changes to Australia in its history. Where does that leave us?

Creeped Out By Aadhaar, India’s Digital ID

What is it like when your entire country uses a Digital ID system? Writing from Mumbai, Rita Banerji describes widespread chaos and misery under India’s Aadhaar system and points to towards an unprecedented control of the population by government and corporations alike. What are the lessons to be learned for Australia?

PwC Accounting Gamekeeper Turns Poacher

Pricewaterhouse Coopers (PwC) warned in its Global Economic and Fraud Survey 2022. Now, following the breach of confidential information that the Australian government trusted PwC to respect, it seems that the gamekeeper turned poacher.

Is Australia’s inflation genie going to go back into its bottle?

According to the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) and Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) inflation is running at 7.8% (annualised) as the latest quarter ending December 2022, the fastest since March 1990. Given the RBA has an inflation target to keep consumer price inflation between 2–3% over the medium term, inflation is both uncomfortably high and unequivocally undesirable given the common-sense explanation that low and stable inflation is the basis for strong sustainable economic growth.

Crypto Contagion and CDBCs: Why Bad Actors and Broken Business Models are Impacting Crypto

In the world of crypto and CDBCs, one man’s rort is another man’s value. Central to these concerns is the programmability of CBDCs, something critics say would reduce personal freedoms and pose security risks.

Qatar and Australian gas cartel: why ‘super profits’ are taking priority over energy price relief

Australia’s power prices continue to sore, with the continued questioning around LNG exports. Simple and common-sense reforms are what the federal government needs to ensure.

Dumping Twitter? Discover Mastodon, the platform many are now flocking to

Many Australians are leaving Twitter for the many ‘instances’ on social media platform Mastodon. Thousands flocked to Aus.Social forcing it to shut down.

Welcome to the spy society

Around the world the surveillance society is no longer George Orwell’s future dystopia but the norm. Is this the Australia we want?