Australia’s Significant Investor Visa program is short-sighted and undervalues the strength of the Australia-China economic relationship, according to influential billionaire Chinese businessman Xiao Wunan. The SIV program, through which...
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The Senate committee investigating corporate tax avoidance will this week recommend changes to government procurement processes aimed at levelling the playing field for Australian suppliers who pay tax in...
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Incoming CSIRO chairman and former Telstra chief executive David Thodey has called for a national policy framework and agenda for the technology sector that encompasses the federal and state...
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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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The need to increase productivity and hence to foster innovation isn’t restricted to Australia. It is a phenomenon common across all economies. A hurdle for small innovative firms –...
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NSW Innovation Minister Victor Dominello last week announced the development of a centralised Data Analytics Centre that is to become a centre of excellence for government data management and...
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There has been plenty of noise about Australia’s free trade agreement with China, the awkward looking ChAFTA, in the eight weeks since it was signed in mid-June. But there...
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The ninth annual ‘Technology in Government’ conference and exhibition has closed its doors in Canberra for another year after two days of deliberations that focused on the key themes...
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An Australian expense management and analytics software developer Smartbill has cracked the Australian Government market with a potentially huge win at the Department of Human Services, which the company...
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The ‘Reinvention program’ at the Australian Taxation Office is as much about changing culture as introducing new technology, the ATO chief information officer Jane King said. Speaking at the...
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The Prime Minister has signalled that he wants Australia to be an infrastructure leader. The Governor of the Reserve Bank has stated we need more infrastructure investment. And every...
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The change agents within the UK’s Government Digital Service have so far reduced the British Government’s £16 billion annual technology spend by £1 billion since the agency was established...
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The Australian Public Service should be readying itself for a radical shake-up, if the directions taken in the UK and the US are anything to go by. It is...
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If public service cultural issues lay at the heart of the challenge for digital transformation in government, then inflexible procurement practices sits right beside it, former US Government Chief...