Dione David
Dione David reports for Region Canberra with a focus on how changing technology, regulation and financial settings affect local businesses and everyday life. Her work sits at the point where new tools, legal obligations and market shifts turn into practical decisions for founders, professionals and households. She writes across business, lifestyle and sport, but returns consistently to stories about adaptation, risk and opportunity.
Local business and entrepreneurship
Much of David’s coverage centres on local business owners and entrepreneurs navigating competitive and fast-changing markets. She profiles founders who are competing with global technology giants while building regional success stories, detailing how they scale from modest beginnings to recognised ventures. In pieces on growing a fleet of machines into a significant enterprise or turning a brewery into a destination brand, she traces the operational choices, customer focus and resilience behind those stories rather than just reporting the headline wins. She also covers industry recognition, such as major training and entrepreneurship awards, with an emphasis on what those accolades signal about skills, innovation and long-term business capability in the region. Across these articles, she gives space to the business model, regulatory environment and human effort that underpin growth, which distinguishes her work from generic award or announcement coverage.
Technology, AI and the changing economy
David writes frequently about the way technology reshapes visibility, competition and investment decisions.
In her reporting on AI search and the limits of traditional SEO, she explains how algorithmic change alters the way businesses are discovered and what they must do to remain findable in a crowded, machine-mediated environment. She connects those technical shifts to practical implications for local enterprises that rely on search to reach customers.
Her work on founders competing with tech giants links innovation and digital capability directly to regional economic outcomes, showing how technology strategy can offset size and resource disadvantages.
In coverage of solar adoption for mid-sized businesses and broader pieces on investment choices following changes to tax settings, she treats technology as part of a wider economic toolkit, analysing return on investment, risk and policy signals rather than focusing on gadgets or hype. This approach makes her technology beat deeply tied to business strategy and financial planning.
Law, regulation and financial decisions
Legal and regulatory detail features prominently in David’s business and lifestyle stories. She reports on contract wording and unpaid superannuation to show how small errors or omissions can translate into large financial liabilities for employers, spelling out the mechanisms that turn clauses into costs.
In coverage of Indigenous procurement rules and enforcement, she links compliance frameworks to social value, explaining how policy settings affect both business opportunities and community outcomes. Her work on testamentary trusts and other estate planning tools breaks down complex legal structures into clear, accessible explanations that highlight why someone might use them and what risks they are designed to manage. In lifestyle pieces about entering new relationships or protecting future assets, she keeps the focus on practical safeguards and long-term consequences, rather than emotional angles alone.
Across these stories, she consistently positions law and regulation as everyday infrastructure that shapes financial security and business decisions.
Community, lifestyle and sport
Alongside her business and technology reporting, David covers a range of lifestyle and community subjects with a service-oriented lens. She writes about animal welfare initiatives that allow supporters to “double their impact” in a single day, framing the story around how ordinary people can participate and what that means for local organisations.
In features on multi-day weddings and venues built to host them, she looks at logistics, planning and the experience design that underpins new social trends.
Health-focused articles, such as coverage of bleeding gums as an early warning sign, emphasise prevention and the broader implications for wellbeing rather than short-term fixes. She also reports on food and drink, profiling regional emporiums and breweries with attention to the business decisions that create distinctive experiences.
In sport, her stories on volleyball and tennis awards highlight pathways for participation, community recognition and legacy, showing how sporting bodies lower barriers and celebrate contributors. Taken together, these pieces show a consistent interest in how community structures, from clubs to charities to venues, organise opportunities and support around people’s daily lives.
Across her work for Region Canberra, David’s reporting stands out for its blend of accessible explanation and close attention to the mechanics behind local stories. Whether writing about AI search, procurement rules, investment choices or community sport, she brings policy, technology and financial detail into clear, concise narratives that show readers how broader forces translate into concrete decisions and outcomes.
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Adnan Farooqui
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Alex Heath
Alex Heath covers the AI race and the tech industry’s inside conversation through scoops, internal documents, product roadmaps, and interviews with leaders. He founded Sources in 2025, an independent newsletter and podcast about artificial intelligence, platform strategy, AI talent, compute, search, agent-based interfaces, and experimental hardware. His reporting examines companies including Meta, Google, OpenAI, Apple, Amazon, and X, and explains how their internal decisions affect products, talent, users, and the broader tech ecosystem. He has interviewed Mark Zuckerberg, Demis Hassabis, Sam Altman, and Daniel Ek. Before Sources, he spent more than a decade at Business Insider, The Information, and The Verge. He covered Facebook, Snap, Twitter, apps, and streaming services, then led reporting on major technology companies. His Command Line newsletter developed the inside-conversation approach he now uses at Sources. He also co-hosts ACCESS and uses AI tools to support drafting and editing.
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