Michael Nicholls 
🤖 “The traditional relationship between experience and expertise is changing.”
Pete Brown, Global Workforce Leader at PwC, points to a fundamental shift in professional services. The latest PwC 2026 Global AI Jobs Barometer reveals that the traditional apprenticeship model is breaking down.
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Operating at 2,200 volts and generating temperatures over 1,000 degrees Celsius to destroy PFAS directly in the ground.
💰 A reportedly $36 billion domestic industry by 2050 is the prize as Australia pivots its low carbon liquid fuel strategy. The Federal Government is moving beyond supply-side grants to introduce mandatory domestic demand-side measures for low carbon liquid fuels.
🏗️ “America’s digital economy relies on our physical infrastructure and the electricians, pipefitters, welders, manufacturing workers and more who build and maintain it.”
Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai shared this perspective as Google committed USD 50 million (~AUD 79 million) to train over 300,000 sk
📊 “An expanded network measuring an increased array of air pollutants will provide the community with much greater confidence…”
Northern Territory EPA Chair Paul Vogel has welcomed a major legislative shift that will hold industrial emitters financially responsible for regional air quality monito
🤖 “Arming robots could keep soldiers out of harm’s way.”
San Francisco startup Foundation Robotics has reportedly secured around US$24 million (~A$36 million) in US military research contracts to test Phantom, a dual-use humanoid robot built for unstructured defence environments.
Congratulations to the Kangaroo Island Landscape Board, the South Australian Government, and the livestock industry on achieving a historic world first in conservation. Kangaroo Island is now officially the largest island in the world to successfully eradicate an established popu
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Victoria is consolidating its waste regulatory system, merging Recycling Victoria into the EPA by June 2026. The state government has announced that Recycling Victoria will formally transition into a new Circular Economy division within EPA Victoria.
🤖 “The future of AI will not only live on screens. It will move, interact, learn and work beside us in the real world.”
This statement from David Reger, Founder of NEURA Robotics, captures the rapid transition from digital software to physical automation.
📊 “We are continuing to see rises in spending towards environmental-related R&D.”
Tom Lay, Australian Bureau of Statistics Head of Business Statistics, commenting on a historic shift in public funding.