The Class of 2030 Hasn’t Started
Australian trade apprenticeship commencements fell for a third year while completions hit records. Only one of those numbers tells you anything about 2030.
Australia’s Housing Shortage Is Not a Land Shortage
Australia is one of the emptiest developed countries on earth and we keep saying we’re running out of room. We’re not. We’re running out of trunk: the sewage, water, power and transport that turn a paddock into somewhere liveable. Eighty one per cent of home loans now go through a broker, 54 per cent of Australians aged 55 to 64 still carry a mortgage against 18 per cent in 1996, and the retirement system was built on the assumption that neither would ever be true.
The Room Already Knew
Three tasks, four options, four minutes. A room of mortgage brokers sorted their own work into human, machine, AI and combination and got all three right. The question almost nobody is asking, and the free tool that answers it.
On 10 December, You Have to Say It Out Loud
From 10 December 2026, Australian organisations must publish in their privacy policy what their automated systems decide about people. Most can’t produce that list, and the obligation isn’t about AI.
When Trust Breaks Down in Organisations, It’s Never the Trust That Broke
AUSTRAC found the same names across unrelated loan files. When trust breaks down in organisations it’s never the trust that broke. It’s the layer nobody checks.
Nobody Argued About the Shark Drones
New South Wales now flies shark drones over around seventy beaches, every day of the year. The money arrived within days of swimmers being killed, and nobody argued, because the reason was too good to argue with. That’s how permanent observation actually shows up. The hard part of drones was never the flying, and the ripple effects land somewhere most leaders aren’t looking.
