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Queue Jumpers: The Case for Letting Electric Car Buyers Import Them Directly
If Australia is to decarbonise our energy system by 2050, we need to start the transition to electric vehicles very soon. Cars sold in the 2030s will mostly still be on the road in 2050, so we have to make sure most of them are electric. But electric cars (including plug-in hybrids) currently account for…
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Can ChatGPT Help or Hinder People With Communication Disabilities?
If you’re one of the 1.2 million Australians with communication disability or among the 44% of Australian adults with low literacy, you may soon find helpful, automated communication assistance online. The chat bot ChatGPT – based on GTP3, a large language model – is a disruptive technology designed to “provide human-like responses” to user input.…
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Live Free and Stream Hard With These Contract-Free NBN Plans
Contracts suck, contract-free NBN is where it’s at.
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6 Reasons 2023 Could Be a Very Good Year for Climate Action
Many people think of the annual UN climate talks as talkfests which achieve only incremental change, at best. Activist Greta Thunberg has described them as “blah blah blah” moments – grossly inadequate and too often hijacked by fossil fuel producers who would like the world to keep buying their main exports. Look more closely. The…