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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This is not only because Trump is on the nose in Australia. And it’s not only because Dutton’s election campaign was abysmal. It is because Trump’s values, which clearly resonated with the sector of ...

Such as, in Canada, for example, where voters rejected the Trumpist conservative party, previously favoured to win in a landslide and instead, ejected leader Pierre Poilievre from the seat he held ...

The 2025 election campaign from both sides has been much like the show Seinfeld — basically, a whole lot of nothing. Lyn Bender writes. For those who have ever watched the Seinfeld series, it remains ...

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The degree to which Labor and Liberal policies are likely to result in these outcomes varies, with those of the Liberals likely to be more adverse than those of Labor. But the policy orientation in ...

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In the rising sun, I photographed this Japanese team respectfully bowing before its solar-powered car in readiness to tackle the Darwin to Adelaide World Solar Challenge. (Photo, 1988.) Event ...

The shame this brings upon Christendom worldwide is not because another religious charlatan has been added at taxpayers’ expense to the clown-car of criminal grifters, conspiracy theory nutters and ...