Shane Rodgers

By Shane Rodgers For most people there is an Australian ‘bucket list’ of features that you need to see at least once. It includes Uluru, the Great Barrier Reef, the Sydney Opera House, the Daintree Rainforest, and maybe the Kimberley. And the 12 Apostles on the Great Ocean Road in Victoria. It took me six decades to get to the last one. So long that the 12 Apostles are now officially seven Apostles after the others succumbed to the waves that pound relentlessly from the Southern Ocean.

Published: 28 August 2026 By Shane Rodgers Everything is about to change. Work. Life. Everything. We can all feel it rising like a storm. Artificial intelligence, once the province of science fiction, is now moving into our homes and workplaces at astonishing speed. Suddenly we all have access to Generative AI tools with extraordinary powers to summarise, advise, organise and create. We can buy humanoid robots that go well behind the vacuum cleaners and mowers that we thought were impressive enough.

By Shane Rodgers In 1966, Hollywood created a unique, genre-jumping television juggernaut that still holds a unique place in popular culture. The Monkees were a made-for-television band inspired by The Beatles’ A Hard Days Night film. Over the years the fictitious group became a real band and kept having hits over many decades, including a mega comeback in the 1980s off the back of a Monkees marathon on MTV.