Anthill Magazine

Sowing seeds of knowledge

Whether you seek answers to the meaning of life or hourly updates on Angelina Jolie’s weight, the right information in this digital age is never more than a few clicks away. Until very recently, most of us had to settle for an education within reach ...

Cleantech bull-ants

Read ‘Clean is the new green’ by Paul Ryan There can be no more important mission for today’s innovators than saving the planet. In Australia, the cleantech industry recently rose to the challenge at Enviro 08, the nation’s premier conference dealing with environmental and sustainability issues. ...

Clean is the new green

Not so long ago, cleantech was an indulgence reserved for tech geeks, fringe-dwelling eco-activists and latte liberals crusading against their own existential guilt. Today, cleantech is on the brink of mainstream adoption, with a ready market of consumers eager to reduce their impact on the ...

Life savers

Most of us agree that technology is great. It feeds us information, speeds things along, connects people scattered around the globe and means we don’t have go get up off the couch to change TV channel. In this era of entertainment-on-demand, it’s easy to forget ...

The window dressers

Advertising firms could be forgiven for feeling under siege. After all, it’s tough to get your message through in a world of broadband internet, cable TV, DVD and time-shifting TiVos, with clients demanding ever deeper brand impact with the lucrative but fickle Generations X and ...

Next big thing awards 2007

The wheel. The print press. The gun. The railway. Electricity. Photography. The aeroplane. The microchip. The internet. (The iPod?) Could such epochs in human invention be rendered insignificant by these seven new Aussie innovations? Perhaps not, but this hand-picked selection of finalists from INNOVIC’s 2007 ...

Green goes mainstream

ECO ENTREPRENEURS It took a while, but even the most hardened sceptics now acknowledge the reality of global warming and other damaging human footprints on the planet. So why have so many businesses been slow to embrace the green revolution? Intrepid reporters Liz Heynes, Catherine ...

Aussie biotechs

BIOTECH BULLANTS: BORN GLOBAL? If ever a local industry was defined by its fortunes overseas, it is biotechnology. Things have not been all rosy for Australia’s biotech sector, with sober reflection supplanting the heady excitement prevalent just a few short years ago. With Australian biotech companies ...

The full package

About four years ago I took a break from my day job and went to Hollywood to chase Australian actors and filmmakers. The idea was to write a piece for Rolling Stone Australia on the lives of Aussie expats working in the entertainment industry. It ...

Baby business

Most people will always forfeit personal luxury to provide for their baby. It’s no wonder that the baby industry is perpetually booming. Liz Heynes and Catherine Kerstjens take a look at five Australian companies on the move in an industry where only the best will ...