Mark Whittaker

Of all the dangerous ideas he’s canvassed, author and academic David Runciman finds child suffrage is the one that gets the rotten tomatoes flying.

Founder Tim Fung has turned his jobs marketplace, Airtasker, into a household name thanks to shrewd deals giving media companies a slice of the action, but cracking the US hasn’t been quite so simple

The Australian designed maglev heart, the BiVACOR – which promises to be the world’s first permanent artificial heart replacement – will be spinning in Australian chests as early as this year.

Fresh from a controversial $940-million deal with Australian taxpayers to attempt the world’s first useful quantum computer in Brisbane, PsiQuantum has inked a deal to build its second one in Chicago.

Synchron’s adoption of artificial intelligence into its brain-computer interface is a step towards transhumanism, says the company’s brain-surgeon CEO Tom Oxley, but that’s not why they’re doing it. The incorporation of a large language model into Synchron’s brain tech keeps the Australian-founded, US-headquartered Synchron ahead of its main rival, Elon Musk’s Neuralink, in the race […]

Brisbane-based cancer-care provider, Icon, has bought UK chemotherapy compounding company Pharmaxo, further expanding its presence in the global growth industry. The purchase marks another milestone for Icon which was founded in Toowoomba, 120km west of Brisbane, in 2007 by a group of doctors and radiotherapists hoping to make advanced cancer treatments available to regional Australians. […]

As the countdown to Paris 2024 continues, Luke Trickett opens up on swimming’s lessons for becoming a serial founder – and subjugating his ego as he watched his more famous wife’s swimming career overtake his own. When the Olympic swimming kicks off in Paris on July 27 the four children of multiple gold medalist Libby […]

Silicon Quantum Computing could launch its first product by the end of the year, chief executive and former Australian of the Year Michelle Simmons says. Silicon Quantum Computing’s “AI accelerator for quantum machine learning” had originally been slated for a 2028 release, but was already being tested by customers, Professor Michelle Simmons said. “It looks […]

Tesla chair Robyn Denholm has teamed up with the owner of the National Basketball League, Larry Kestelman, to take a controlling stake in the Women’s National Basketball League.

CEO’s don’t do group therapy. This article was featured in Issue 11 of Forbes Australia. Tap here to secure your copy. Ruth Limkin sat in a grand, empty house in the rolling green hills northwest of Brisbane, wondering where to start turning the place into a luxury rehab.  She was unfettered by any experience in the […]