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drone delivery promises comfort and speed, but at a cost to workers and communities

Written by: Michael Richardson, Senior Research Fellow, UNSW

Wing

Drone delivery company Wing recently celebrated 100,000 deliveries with an unusual burst of media fanfare. Australia is at the forefront of Wing’s plans, with the company’s two biggest trial sites running in Canberra and Logan in Queensland.

Wing tells a simple story of barista coffee and roast chooks dropped on your driveway at a...

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