Science
Broad subject area
Report
Chief Archivist's annual report on the state of government recordkeeping 2016-17
This report looks at trends in information management across the public sector and outlines the work Archives New Zealand carried out as regulator in the 2016/17 year.
Journal article
Dynamic loading on a prefabricated modular unit of a building during road transportation
Modular building construction is an emerging trend in the construction industry. During the course of road transportation of the modular unit of a building, vehicular vibrations on the truck-trailer may cause damage to components that are attached to the unit. The amount of dynamic loading depends on many parameters including the level of loading on...
Article
Climate policy is a fiendish problem for governments – time for an independent authority with real powers
Scientific problems require evidence-led solutions. A new proposal to create a federal environmental decision-making body would take some of the politics out of climate policy.
Book
Algorithmic warfare: applying artificial intelligence to warfighting
Artificial intelligence technologies will disrupt warfighters and warfighting, ushering in algorithmic warfare and irrevocably changing our operational art and the character of war.
Article
Dirty deeds, done for considerable amounts of money
The week’s two big political campaigning scandals — Cambridge Analytica’s data-harvesting and Labor’s funding scam in Victoria — highlight the temptations facing parties desperate to win government. For Labor, an Ombudsman’s report on the affair places valuable information in the hands of the Victorian Opposition.