Our Productivity Commission is considering to include an exemption for text and data mining into our Copyright Act. This extractive industry may well put us out of business
The year was 1987. The location: a busy Brisbane newsroom. I was tapping away on a Remington typewriter to tell the story of a corrupt state government with an autocratic leader, Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen.
Technology quickly evolved. A few years later at regional television station GLV-8 in Victoria, we were in thrall to the Commodore 64, an early desktop computer that looked like a bread bin.
