September 2026
The rules can't keep up
Australia's growth keeps landing in the same handful of places, and the funding hasn't caught up. Kmart is selling smart glasses cheap enough to worry a regulator that can't yet touch the platforms it's actually chasing. Seven of Australia's biggest employers have quietly found the same excuse to move jobs to India. Insurers have stopped waiting for government climate targets to catch up with what they're already charging. A church secretly bankrolled election chaos, and it's shopping the same service to its next buyer. And ambulances are taking longer, but the real hold-up isn't in the hospital.