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Community Must Have a Say on AI Facilities in Tasmania

Greens Statement It’s like the Liberals asked AI about data centre construction in Tasmania and totally forgot to check with the real...

Firmus is Biggering & Biggering – Part 2 3

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Firmus is Biggering & Biggering – Part 2

The American Railroad Bubble in the 1880s was fuelled by unprecedented access to capital, infrastructure overbuilding, and speculation to capture lucrative future...

How AI Could Hurt — And Help — Local Journalism 9

How AI Could Hurt — And Help — Local Journalism 10

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How AI Could Hurt — And Help — Local Journalism

As news deserts expand and resources shrink, AI threatens to further undermine local media outlets. Yet, carefully deployed, it may also help...

Rural Tasmania Demands Urgent Action on Digital Divide 11

Rural Tasmania Demands Urgent Action on Digital Divide 12

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Rural Tasmania Demands Urgent Action on Digital Divide

Community members gathered in Miena today to voice frustration over failing digital services in rural Tasmania, with emergency workers unable to reach...

Marinus – Alarm Bells Should Be Ringing 14

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Marinus – Alarm Bells Should Be Ringing

On a Saturday, 30 August 2025 in a meeting hall in Ulverstone, Kim Phillips-Haines, owner of Leven River Cruises and Coastline Tours...

AI and Our Workforce - Augmentation Not Automation 16

AI and Our Workforce - Augmentation Not Automation 17

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AI and Our Workforce – Augmentation Not Automation

Generative AI (Gen AI) represents the latest and most significant technological shift since the dawn of the global digital economy. Decades of...

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Letters to the Editor

Acting Premier Rockliff Recently Claimed he ‘Respects the Will of the People’. If he genuinely respected the will of the people, he...

Exclusive - AI Data Centres a Threat to Tasmania? 21

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Exclusive – AI Data Centres a Threat to Tasmania?

Might the costs and risks associated with AI data centres exceed their potential benefit to Tasmania? Kim Phillips-Haines takes a very deep...

Renewable Boom or Power Pinch? Tasmania's Energy Future Divides Opinion 23

Renewable Boom or Power Pinch? Tasmania's Energy Future Divides Opinion 24

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Renewable Boom or Power Pinch? Tasmania’s Energy Future Divides Opinion

Tasmania’s evolving energy landscape is in focus this week as various renewable energy projects, partnerships and infrastructure are discussed. The University of...