With the Ministry sworn in and the Shadow Ministry appointed we complete the transition from an election period back to normal government. It is also the point at which...
Communications
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Opposition leader Bill Shorten’s self-described ‘Dream Team’ of an expanded Shadow Ministry is a mixed bag for the tech industry. The elevation of Jim Chalmers to Finance and Michelle...
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Cybersecurity threats and expenditure are growing massively, with the emphasis moving strongly to business issues. That’s the key issue to come out of the fourth annual Asia Pacific RSA...
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If the innovation flavour of the Turnbull Government was in its early days all about startups and software entrepreneurs, the tone of the Prime Minister’s new ministry points toward...
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull committed before the election to make only minor changes to his ministry. And true to his word, as ministerial reshuffles go, the post-election changes announced...
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One the surface, with all-out, all-change in the innovation portfolio taking the spotlight in the sector, it’s very much steady as she goes in the new Turnbull Ministry’s communications...
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Labor in opposition would continue to press for a rethink of the unpopular fibre-to-the-node NBN roll-out, with Shadow communications spokesman Jason Clare claiming the issue played a big part...
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Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s last pitch to the Australian electorate was to secure the economic future by electing a stable Coalition Government. The voters ignored him. More counting through...
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Innovation politics has paid out some harsh lessons for the Coalition on the wild ride of the Australian electorate during July 2’s double dissolution poll. With the final vote...
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This eight week campaign has seen the technology and innovation policy debated more often and in more detail than any previous Federal election. This of course is a good...
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Australia’s technology-facing industry groups have welcomed the strong election commitments to the sector from both the major parties, although each has imposed caveats related to the ability of whoever...
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The election is upon us and both major parties have been demonising The Greens. The level of vitriol directed towards them is most likely counter-productive – it is simply...
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The importance of the National Broadband Network to Australia – and the continuing wretched history of telecommunications in this country as a political plaything – has been underscored by...
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Ziggy Switkowski’s spectacularly ill-advised and highly political injection of himself and the NBN Co he chairs into the election debate in its timing, content and repercussions mark a turning...