6 things Australia should do to tackle the energy crisis rather than just building bigger fuel reserves
https://theconversation.com/6-things-australia-should-do-to-tackle-the-energy-crisis-rather-than-just-building-bigger-fuel-reserves-280030
Systems don’t just support life anymore, they script it. We’re not avoiding instability, we’re living inside it. Framed as improvement, but design has shifted from fixing problems to staging disruption. This isn’t better logistics. It’s a new relationship to permanence, where failure is no longer an error, but part of the plan.
https://metro.global/2026/01/07/smart-2026-supply-chains-are-being-engineered-for-pressure/ #supplychains

Supply chains are no longer judged on efficiency alone, in 2026 they will be expected to anticipate disruption and adapt at speed to actively support growth. The experience of the past year confirmed that stability is no longer a realistic planning assumption, but performance under pressure is. Rather than a single crisis, 2025 delivered constant […]
Logistics long operated as a modality of war, not its aftermath. Ports aren't merely sites of exchange but strategic infrastructures where commercial & military imperatives converge. What is framed as resilience or infrastructure planning marks a deeper integration of civilian circulation into security doctrine. This isn't investment alone, but ongoing militarization of the systems that move goods, people & power. Anyone attending SSD 2026 this June?
https://2026.supplysecurity.eu/Theme/supply-chain-resilience/ #supplychains
In this interview released to OCCRP, Mark Pieth, author of Gold Laundering and one of the leading experts on illicit gold flows, answers five key questions about an investigation I spent nearly a year on.
It traces a multibillion-dollar opaque gold trade #Venezuela, #Curaçao, and #Switzerland.
https://www.occrp.org/en/feature/five-questions-on-the-gold-trade
#InvestigativeJournalism #GoldTrade #MoneyLaundering #SupplyChains #Curaçao #Transparency #DirtyGold
"... so much of our land [in NZ] and so much of our effort goes into an industrial process to make mostly milk powder, this commodity that ends up overseas to be, basically, the key ingredient of a whole lot of junk food ...
... in this country ... there's a beautiful climate, and water ... and somehow we end up importing something around 80% of our food that's in the supermarket ..."
#MikeJoy, 2026
https://thekaka.substack.com/p/mini-hoon-live-with-bernard-hickey
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Bernard Hickey talks with Mike Joy and Catherine Knight about food security and the Reality of Everything conference coming up at Vic Uni on June 26