Digital Regulation Research, Forecasts & Analysis

8 Sept 2026 · Digital Platforms · Report· NEW

New Tax Ruling For Global Tech Giants: A Fight We Need To Have

: The Australian Taxation Office's royalty ruling TR 2026/2 marks a critical turning point for digital tax equity in Australia, addressing the long-standing tax asymmetry enjoyed by foreign tech giants. By reclassifying cloud computing, streaming, and SaaS revenues as intellectual property royalties,…

4 Sept 2026 · Digital Platforms · Report· NEW

Restoring the Social Compact: The Next Steps for Australia's FTA TV Industry

: We recently wrote on the urgent need for a sovereign media strategy for Australia, detailing the legislative and policy levers the Federal Government must pull to rein in multinational digital platforms, close tax and regulatory loopholes, and protect national cultural infrastructure. The policy fa…

4 Sept 2026 · Digital Platforms · Report

Tax-Free Takeover: Hard Lessons From Australia's Approach to Streaming Giants

: Over the past three decades, Australia's television ecosystem has experienced a fundamental realignment of audience attention, advertising spend, and cultural ownership. Australia's collective response (spanning both policy and industry) to the arrival of global streaming platforms in the mid-2010s…

24 Aug 2026 · Digital Regulation · Report

ASD Accelerates Post-Quantum Timeline: Traditional Cryptography Faces 2030 Sunset

: The Australian Signals Directorate requires organisations operating in Australia to have a refined post-quantum cryptography transition plan by the end of 2026, roughly five months from publication, with migration of critical systems commenced by end-2028 and the transition completed by end-2030. T…

24 Aug 2026 · Telecom · Explainer

Quantum Cryptography Explainer: Technologies To Beat the Quantum Threat

: This report examines the accelerating threat of Cryptographically Relevant Quantum Computers and the strategic imperatives for enterprise security architectures. It is a companion to our "ASD Accelerates Post-Quantum Timeline: Traditional Cryptography Faces 2030 Sunset" report. It details the Austr…

13 Aug 2026 · Enterprise ICT · Report

When AI Models Break Bad: Managing the Specification Gaming Threat

: This report is a procurement and governance briefing. It takes the July 2026 incident in which OpenAl's models escaped their sandbox and compromised Hugging Face's production systems, and turns it into concrete guidance for two audiences in Australia and New Zealand: enterprises that buy and integr…

6 Aug 2026 · Digital Platforms · Brief

Beyond Incrementalism: We Need A Sovereign Strategy for Australia's News Media

: The Albanese Government's finalised News Bargaining Incentive (NBI) introduces targeted structural adjustments to digital advertising levies, platform scopes, and distribution mechanisms. However, the framework remains overly cautious and reactive. This brief critiques the proposal's strategic limi…

9 July 2026 · Telecom · Report

How Regulation Squeezes Investment in Telco Network Resilience: What Needs to Change

: This week's Telstra outage has triggered an almost ritual cascade of condemnation from politics and media. But the Australian mobile network isn't getting more unreliable objectively. Rather, our dependence on it is growing. The only solution is more investment to meet this need. This report looks…

6 July 2026 · Digital Platforms · Brief

Nine/Microsoft news deal points to the alternative to News Media Bargaining conflict

: This landmark deal allows Copilot to utilise full-text articles from Nine's mastheads, including paywalled content, to inform and 'ground' its AI search. The agreement facilitates the generation of summaries and headlines with direct attribution and click-through links, establishing a new commercia…

25 June 2026 · Enterprise ICT · Report

Frontier AI is Now a Weapon: US Recall of Claude Fable 5 Exposes Australia's and New Zealand's Digital Blind Spot

: The abrupt global suspension of Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 artificial intelligence models on June 12, 2026, represents a critical shift in the geopolitics of advanced technology. By using export control authorities to restrict access to software models, the United States government has…

11 June 2026 · Digital Infrastructure · Brief

Australia's AI Bargain: Capital Without Control

: Australia is absorbing large-scale AI infrastructure investment — led by Anthropic and Microsoft — under a policy framework that is deliberately non-binding. The National AI Plan (2026) positions Australia as a destination for foreign AI capital but imposes no mandatory guardrails on frontier AI de…