All articles published by The Daily Perspective from 28 February to 29 March 2026.
A maker has designed an open-source USB bridge that finally allows access to data on Toshiba's world-record 0.85-inch hard drives from 2004, devices long abandoned due to flash memory's rise.
Fatima Al-Rashid 
Two brothers promised Detroit residents a low-cost path to property ownership through cryptocurrency. What followed was systematic neglect, phantom management, and a city lawsuit described as historic.
Andrew Marsh 
Sears' AI chatbot exposed customer phone calls, text messages and personal contact details to anyone on the internet, raising phishing and fraud risks.
Helen Cartwright 
In Perth's most affluent electorate, voters who are among the biggest beneficiaries of negative gearing tax breaks are backing substantial reform. The result challenges political assumptions about what wealthy Australians want from tax policy.
Fatima Al-Rashid 
Fuel costs in Western Australia have surged 47% in a month as Iran's closure of the Strait of Hormuz, a critical energy chokepoint, ripples through Australian supply chains. Rural communities now face acute shortages.
Fatima Al-Rashid 
A man has been charged with two counts of murder after a teacher and her infant daughter were found dead at a property south of Brisbane. The charges followed the discovery of Kate Paterson and her daughter April.
Tanya Birch 
South Australia is experiencing its driest 32-year period on record. Adelaide's water future now depends on desalination plants and innovations that bypass rainfall entirely.
Meg Hadley 
A Year 5 teacher and her 11-month-old daughter were found dead in their Belivah home after police responded to a traffic incident involving the child's father about 300 metres away.
Samantha Blake 
Cyclone Narelle is tracking towards the Queensland coast and is expected to cross as a category 4 system, bringing heavy rain, flooding, and dangerous winds to Far North Queensland.
Oliver Pemberton Australia's renewable electricity supply has surpassed 50% for the first time, hitting a milestone in its journey toward 82% by 2030. But rapid generation growth is colliding with a critical bottleneck: the grid infrastructure needed to transmit and balance this variable power.
Oliver Pemberton 
A Brisbane man has been charged with two counts of murder after his partner and one-year-old daughter were discovered dead in their home. The tragedy unfolded following a separate incident on a nearby road.
James Callahan 
Switzerland has quietly built a replacement for the internet's fundamental routing protocol, addressing vulnerabilities that have plagued global networks since the 1980s. Yet despite working solutions in production use, adoption remains glacial.
Zara Mitchell 
The federal government has abandoned plans to expand SBS operations to Western Sydney, citing fiscal pressures. The broadcaster says the decision is disappointing.
Priya Narayanan 
Casey McLean is less than three weeks into his first full NRL season, but NSW coach Laurie Daley is already taking note. The Penrith teenager's early form has sparked serious talk of Origin honours.
Patrick Donnelly 
The question of whether to stay after sex reveals deeper tensions in modern dating: a desire for connection alongside growing insistence on clear boundaries and personal autonomy.
Aisha Khoury 
Officer residents who purchased homes with promises of a vibrant town centre are still waiting after nearly two decades. Council is pushing state government to accelerate the stalled project.
Victoria Crawford 
Queensland's 2026 Young Australian of the Year, Jarib Branfield-Bradshaw, has been charged with eight counts of possessing child exploitation material following a police investigation.
Sarah Cheng 
A 38-year-old Belivah man has been charged with two counts of murder following the deaths of a woman and her infant daughter on 12 March. He is due to appear via video link at Brisbane Magistrates Court on 18 March.
Tanya Birch 
A man has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering his lawyer girlfriend with a champagne bottle in a Perth hotel room after she told him she was leaving.
Rachel Thornbury 
New research using a wearable device reveals humans pass gas about 32 times daily on average, roughly double the figure that has dominated medical literature for decades.
Mitchell Tan 
Crown Melbourne is cutting 200 positions as weakening customer spending and regulatory compliance costs bite into profitability. The move comes amid ongoing workplace disputes over wages.
Oliver Pemberton 
Brad Haddin, the former Australian Test vice-captain, has won the race to become NSW Blues head coach, replacing Greg Shipperd despite his final match delivering a One-Day Cup title.
Megan Torres 
Internal documents show the Cook Government will reduce women's mental health beds by one-third at Cockburn Health, redirecting them to aged care services as part of its winter health strategy.
Ella Sullivan 
Australia holds only 36 days of petrol reserves, falls short of international standards, and relies on nine foreign tanker networks. The Iran conflict has exposed structural vulnerabilities years in the making.
Zara Mitchell Australia's vacancy rate has collapsed to 1.1%, rents are up 6.6% year-on-year, and renters are spending a record 33.4% of income on housing. Government policies offer promise but cannot solve the supply crisis quickly.
Daniel Kovac Australia signed a strategic energy partnership with the UAE last October, yet as fuel shortages bite, the government isn't leveraging it to secure long-term clean energy supply. A critical gap in energy security strategy.
Fatima Al-Rashid The RBA's March rate hike to 4.10% will push some small businesses over the edge, yet the government is doing little to help. Rate rises are the wrong tool for an energy-driven inflation crisis.
Riley Fitzgerald 
Scientists have found all five chemical building blocks of DNA and RNA in samples from asteroid Ryugu, suggesting life's ingredients were widespread across the early solar system.
Bruce Mackinnon 
A major investigation by Reuters claims to have identified the anonymous street artist as Robin Gunningham, based on a signed confession from a 2000 arrest. His legal team disputes the findings and warns publication could endanger his safety.
Samantha Blake 
The BBC's plan to save money by closing radio and TV services and pushing audiences online has failed spectacularly, with digital reach actually falling 11 per cent since 2021.
Tom Whitfield