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A Few Roos Loose in the Top Paddock: The Australian Bush Becomes a Pressure Cooker

Ten separate stories. Same bloody problem: Nobody tells the Australians affected. 1. The Roads Vanished, and 000 Can’t Get You September 2020. The Queensland Roads Team swapped the old Baseline Roads and Tracks (BRAT) dataset for the new Queensland Roads… Continue Reading →

Australia’s Hopeless Internet: Information Super Highway turns into Goat Track

In Penong, on the Nullarbor, the Ampol station is the only public room for a hundred kilometres in any direction that pretends to offer the internet. I sat there for an hour yesterday trying to join the Telstra public network…. Continue Reading →

Inside the Race to ‘Fill the Sky’ with Satellites

TOTT NEWS As thousands of new satellites begin to crawl across the sky, companies are now in a race to secure the best positions ahead of a ‘next generation shift’ in internet services. Elon Musk’s space tech company SpaceX is… Continue Reading →

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