Author: James Riley

Amazon acquired a large healthcare company. Should we worry?

Posted on   |  by Mohiudinn Ahmed and Paul Haskell-Dowland
This week Amazon announced plans to fork out US$3.9 billion (A$5.6 billion) to acquire US healthcare company One Medical. One Medical reportedly provides primary care on a membership basis...

Govt instructs NBNCo to rewrite pricing models

Posted on   |  by Mark Gregory
The government has instructed NBN Co to withdraw and revise the Special Access Undertaking variation that it lodged with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission in March. The Special...

CSIRO maps ten year ‘tidal wave’ of disruption

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The national science agency has released a once-in-a-decade report that identifies seven global megatrends that will shape the challenges and significant opportunities Australia will face in the coming years....

ACCC ‘closely’ monitors Amazon’s EU antitrust issues

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Amazon is offering to halt the online selling and marketing practices in Europe that regulators allege are anti-competitive, hoping to bring an end to a two-year investigation and avoid...

The Innovation Papers: Meet our full list of expert authors

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Forty policy thinkers from across the Australian tech and innovation ecosystems have contributed more than 70,000 words to The Innovation Papers projects to be published in a newspaper format...

Lavender Scare: Will NASA rename James Webb Space Telescope?

Posted on   |  by Alice Gorman
The first images from the James Webb Space Telescope are astounding. With its deep infrared eyes, the telescope is illuminating regions of the Universe with never-before-possible clarity. The telescope...

Misinformation remains a vexed policy problem

Posted on   |  by Jordan Guiao
A review of the Australian Code of Practice on Disinformation and Misinformation – Australia’s answer to defence against misinformation online is currently underway. A year since being developed by...