Australia's quiet tech bench: who builds the country's biggest software companies.
Sydney is rarely mentioned alongside San Francisco and Tel Aviv as a software hub. The numbers say it should be.
Raj Bhatia · Apr 24, 2026 · 9 min
Independent journalism for Australia and the world. Politics, business, sport, culture, comment. · Est. 2026
Sydney is rarely mentioned alongside San Francisco and Tel Aviv as a software hub. The numbers say it should be.
Raj Bhatia · Apr 24, 2026 · 9 min
A quietly significant pivot for Australian AI: a publicly-funded national lab, defence-cleared, with capacity for sovereign training runs.
Raj Bhatia · Apr 25, 2026 · 5 min
The AI hype in the legal industry is loud. The genuinely-deployed applications are quieter and more specific.
Raj Bhatia · Feb 08, 2026 · 6 min
Small business advice on cybersecurity has, until recently, been unrealistic. It is getting better.
Raj Bhatia · Feb 05, 2026 · 5 min
Three companies in Sydney and Melbourne are building voice AI infrastructure. All three have real revenue.
Raj Bhatia · Feb 02, 2026 · 5 min
The demand for data-centre-ready industrial land in outer Sydney is now shaping the property market for warehouses.
Raj Bhatia · Jan 30, 2026 · 6 min
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