Tim Watts is one of the new faces in the Federal Parliament, having been elected to Nicola Roxon’s old seat of Gellibrand in the ‘Class of 2013.’ He is a...
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The issue of “digital inclusion” is usually considered to be a matter of social policy. Events at this year’s ACCAN conference Dollars and Bytes – Communications affordability now and...
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Perhaps the main attraction to Singapore, the city-state pulling out all the stops to become the technology hub of Southeast Asia, is simple: money. Not only is Singapore full...
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The chairman of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Rod Sims said some fairly straight-forward things about affordability in the telecommunications sector and seems to have put noses out...
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New research to be published today concludes that the NBN will result in a 1.8 per cent increase in Australia’s GDP by the mid-2020s. The research paper is a...
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Shut your eyes very hard and imagine, if you can, Tony Abbott saying these words: “One important advantage which we have which we must take full advantage of is to...
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I wish it were otherwise, but it is impossible to cover the innovation sector in Australia without occasionally writing about the National Broadband Network. The notion of a broadband...
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Victor Dominello has been in the job a little over four months as New South Wales’ first Minister for Innovation. He works in a Cabinet where no less than...
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Australian Voice over IP specialist MyNetFone has grown from modest beginnings into a technology leader with an expanding global footprint. Chief Executive Rene Sugo saw an opportunity to transform...
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Malcolm Turnbull’s re-framing of the Coalition economic argument at the Brisbane Club this week was directed at his colleagues as much as to his self-proclaimed constituency at the “sensible...
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Just like the party-room meeting at Parliament House, there is a very sizeable rump of people within the tech sector who are disappointed that the leadership spill motion was...
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s visit next week to Australia’s flagship information technology research agency – NICTA – must surely be causing some discomfort and embarrassment among the senior ranks...
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One hundred young innovators from China will travel to Sydney’s VIVID festival of ideas next year to be matched with 100 young Australian counterparts for an ambitious five-day program...
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As incredible as it sounds for a country as successful in the startup sector as Israel, the country’s low productivity and the slow uptake of technology by government is...