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Dubbed the “AI apocalypse”, in the space of 1 week, 10’s of thousands of previously safe data coding jobs were lost at leading IT developers. These “jobs of the future” that our young have been pushed towards for the past decade have now been replaced by computers programming computers. AI is exponentially more disruptive than […]

If someone is walking around with their fly down, do you tell them? Short term humiliation is almost guaranteed for both persons, so most avoid the hard task but in the process cause a worse situation for the poor unaware “flasher”. There are many written and unwritten rules in workplaces that prohibit the truth about […]

A New Year brings out everything from resolutions to crystal balls. I usually steer clear of both but thought I’d go out on a limb this year and decipher the facts around Electric earth moving equipment to predict where the market is heading. As this is still a fairly new concept in earth moving, but […]

As a business owner or indeed manager, you are expected to be across every rule and regulation that affects your business. Each rule on its own might seem innocuous enough but piled on top of each other becomes a mountain. And if you get it wrong, you are penalised. What if we demanded the same […]

Roy Morgan recently published a report that sounded alarmist: 25% of Australians believe Artificial Intelligence (AI) presents a risk of human extinction in the next 20 years, up from 20% only 2 years earlier. It wasn’t until I sat down and thought about it that it became clear how much AI has already made inroads, […]

We expect businesses to have a so called “social license”, which means to do the right thing by the community it operates within. Probably the toughest field in which to secure a social license must be mining and value-added refining, so thought it appropriate to look at the comments about a lack of “social license” […]

Employers in all industries I speak to are suffering the same issues when it comes to finding suitably qualified employees, which then limits business growth and our ability to service our client bases, so it’s a problem that needs addressing from the whole of our society. Lower skilled roles are harder to fill than higher […]

The best use of money is when a person spends their own money for their own benefit, followed by a person spending their own money on someone else. The worst spender of money is when someone spends someone else’s money on others, which is what happens when Government spends taxpayers’ money. So, this week’s Economic/Productivity […]

Australia does not have enough money to build all the infrastructure we require. This will mean managing expectations as much as putting scarce resources (people and money) to the best use. There are ways this can be done without upsetting the apple cart, with benefits available to everyone if it is done right. Sometimes it […]

Australia’s productivity growth averaged only 0.9% per year over the 20 year period to 2022, and it has now dropped into negative so much that our average wealth declined by nearly 9% in the past 3 years, the worst performing country in the developed world. Everyone else is becoming more efficient, and we need to […]