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Reigniting The Fear Factor – Victoria’s Latest Statewide Lockdown Condemned
Senior medical specialist Geoffrey Wells, organiser of the Covid Doctors Network, says…
Ranking Countries’ Pandemic Response
Australia’s Lowy Institute has released an interactive online study of why and…
Signing Off On 2020
A final word on a pretty ordinary year. Hope you enjoyed what…
China’s Beidou Satellite Tech Challenges America’s GPS
In June 2020, the 55th and final satellite in the Beidou constellation…
No Greater Lie Than A Half Truth
How sophisticated disinformation campaigns muddy the waters and make it harder to…
China’s Overseas Key Individuals Database Revealed
A leaked database known as the Overseas Key Individual Database suggests China…
Is It Pointless For The ACCC To Take On Facebook And Google?
Piers talks with digital marketer Michael Simonetti about the Australian Competition and…
Competition Watchdog Takes On Google And Facebook
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is pressuring Google and Facebook to…
Doctors Warn Of Serious Side Effects From Victoria’s Covid Lockdown
On 31st August 2020, a group of thirteen senior Melbourne doctors signed…
The Evolution Of Energy Part 2 – From Fossil Fuels To Renewables
Dr. Ian Storey, lecturer at Australia’s Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, outlines…
The Evolution Of Energy – From Fossil Fuels To Renewables
We marvel at the extraordinary success of Tesla in becoming the world’s…
2020 Vision – Our Take On Trump’s First Term
With America reeling from the Administration’s disastrous response to coronavirus and violent…
Trump Threatens To Shut Down Twitter
After presidential tweet “When the looting starts, the shooting starts” was deemed…
The Rise (And Rise) Of The Surveillance State
An in-depth look at China’s use of cutting-edge surveillance technology and artificial…
4.5 Billion Souls In Lockdown – The Human, Social And Economic Costs
Piers talks with Dr. Ian Storey, lecturer in information systems at RMIT,…
Working From Home
John gives us a rundown on how he’s set himself up to…
OH Honey!
Over the past few years we have been interviewing Simon Mulvany of…
CO2 From Air Into Beer
CSIRO has found a way of capturing carbon dioxide directly from the…
Corona Virus Travel Advisory
We outline the World Health Organisation’s recommendations at a time of rising…
Honey Giant Withdraws Legal Action Against Activist Simon Mulvany
The legal battle that has ground on for years between beekeeper activist…
Hunting Ghost Particles At The South Pole
A look at the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the amazing astrophysics research…
3D-Printed Fake Fish To Hit Supermarket Shelves
San Diego start-up BlueNalu has found a way to make a plant-based…
Post Fires, Will Australia Reconsider Climate Change? (Part 2)
The bushfire emergency has killed over a billion animals and decimated national…
Is Extreme Weather The New Normal?
With bushfires still burning out of control in South Eastern Australia, the…
Post Fires, Will Australia Reconsider Climate Change?
With 1.5% of Australia’s land mass burnt in disastrous bushfires – an…
Climate Change, Not Just A Rogue Asteroid, Killed The Dinosaurs
Fossilised Antarctic seashells show the planet was unstable, warmed by intense volcanism,…
World’s Oceans Have A Million Times More Plastic Than We Thought
New measurement methods show that pieces of plastic smaller than 5 mm…
China’s All-Pervasive Facial Recognition
When you buy a smart phone in China, your face will be…
Radical ‘Flying’ Boats Competing For America’s Cup In 2021
‘AC 75’ hydro foiling monohulls, capable of sailing at over 50 knots…
Noise Concerns Dampen Support For Delivery Drones
After concluding a national drone noise review, the Australian Federal Government has…
Sun Cable To Deliver Outback Solar To Singapore
Australian billionaires Mike Cannon-Brookes and Andrew Forrest are lead investors in a…
The World’s Darkest Skies
The River Murray International Dark Sky Reserve in South Australia is a…
Our Restless Earth (Part 2)
Physicist Dr Tony Heyes tells how the Serbian polymath Milutin Milankovic, interned…
Our Restless Earth (Part 1)
In this fascinating discussion, Physicist Dr Tony Heyes explains the background and…
Ultra Hi-res Camera Can ID Every Face Among Thousands
A new Chinese-made camera has 4 times the resolution of the human…
Coming To Grips With The Science Behind Buruli Ulcers
Piers talks with leading experts on Buruli ulcers Professor Tim Stinear of…
Lab-grown Meat Coming Of Age
Production costs are falling dramatically and the day may come when a…
The Automatic Listening Exploitation Act
Smart home devices like the Amazon Echo and Google Nest are super…
Trade War Effects On Consumer Tech
We look at the effects of the accelerating trade war on consumer…
Disrupting The Disruptors – Big Changes To The Gig Economy
If it passes a final vote in the Senate, California’s AB5 bill…
Weaponising Social Media
US tech giants are cracking down on misuse of their platforms. Twitter…
Big Brother Likes To Watch
Billions of CCTV cameras now monitor cities across the world but don’t…
Australian Lawmakers Focus On US Tech Giants
The Feds are moving to clamp down on Google and Facebook –…
Josh Hawley’s War On Big Tech
The Republican Senator for Missouri says social media is “a parasite on…
NZ Government Embraces AI
New Zealand is one of the most ambitious and advanced users in…
How To Do More With Melbourne’s Class A Sewage (Part 2)
A staggering 350 million litres of recycled water is pumped from Gunnamatta…
How To Do More With Melbourne’s Class A Sewage (Part 1)
A staggering 350 million litres of recycled water is pumped into the…
China’s “Deadbeat” Map
An app-based ‘deadbeat debtors’ map can warn users if they’re in close…
Taking Aim At The Flesh-Eating Buruli Ulcer
A dangerous and hard-to-treat ulcer is spreading among residents and visitors on…