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 ...

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OPPOSITION LEADER Peter Dutton ’s call for nuclear power, made as part of his Budget reply speech, should not be taken too seriously. In its nine years in office, the L-NP took no steps to promote ...

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 ...

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 ...

Increase in landfills due to discarded traditional SIM cards This contributes to high microplastic pollution. The production of SIM cards requires plastic and metals, such as silicon and gold Their ...

Just as the recognition of the starvation of Gaza was proving to be a last straw in the world’s denial of Israeli atrocities, Israel resurrected its old claim of the imminent threat of a nuclear Iran.

For most people, “AI” now means generative AI — systems like ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude and others that can generate human-like text, images, or even code. But generative AI is just one branch of a much ...

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 ...

Biology becomes an instrument Some of the most creative artists are taking another route: turning the human body into a musical instrument. Italian performance artist Marco Donnarumma developed the ...