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Policy

Follow a public decision from its rules to its delivery, and ask who can challenge it.

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Your boss wants AI. Who gets the final say?

California’s newly signed workplace rules put a human between an automated recommendation and a decision to discipline or dismiss. Whether that person can genuinely challenge the machine is the harder question.

Policy / Cover story

Want a data centre? Bring your own power

Australia wants new data centres to add supply, pay their grid costs and provide flexibility. Turning that promise into an enforceable bargain is more complicated than arriving with a very large plug.

Policy / Feature

A housing promise is not a front-door key

A completed building is a visible achievement. Whether it becomes an adequate home depends on less photogenic things: affordable costs, dependable services, secure tenure and a workable journey to everyday life.

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Fuel relief by text message: who gets left out?

Pakistan’s digital fuel-support programme promises quick, targeted help. Its effectiveness depends on a less visible journey: from eligibility and registration to a discount that a person can actually use.