Australian patent law is grounded in the Patents Act 1990, which provides the statutory regime for granting, enforcing, and limiting patent rights. Under section 18 (1), an invention must be a manner ...

ONE OF THE FEW good things to come out of the chaos that used to be known as the rules-based international order is that Australia is not alone in attempting to ingratiate itself with the Trump ...

Despite hyped rhetoric about the “big, beautiful bill,” the legislation has stalled. Its deficit‑blowing ambitions have alarmed fiscal hawks across the aisle. With Musk and others highlighting its ...

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Other AUKUS critics have more compelling reasons for its abandonment. The most cogent of these, articulated by former prime ministers Paul Keating and Malcolm Turnbull and others, is that nuclear subs ...

In both instances, Australian lives were on the line. And in both instances, Labor resisted the logic of imperial wars prosecuted with flimsy strategic justification. But that resistance was, in truth ...

Youth exclusion compounds the problem The recent decision to ban children under 16 from social media has undoubtedly contributed to the demise of mainstream current affairs. Young people, who were ...

You might be bullied in the workplace for being fastidious and conscientious, showing up your daft colleagues, or reputationally attacked by a member of the establishment keen to conceal his corrupt ...

Our Pabst is GW, the Austrian film director, who discovered both Greta Garbo (The Joyless Street) and Louise Brooks (Pandora’s Box), who is often mistaken for having directed Metropolis (that was ...

Where might we end up? In many ways, policies to improve the economic foundations of Australia are well known. A simpler and fairer tax system. A paring back of regulations and so-called “red tape” ...