Australia is 27 years into the longest period of continuous economic growth in the history human kind – as measured against an arcane set of dusty metrics – and...
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The next Prime Minister of Australia will be decided on Friday afternoon after the Turnbull government sensationally shut down Parliament and called for a leadership spill, with three main...
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Big data streams and the analytics systems that can make sense of them are becoming easier to deploy due to the advent of cloud services, better tools and more...
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A major cloud is now over the federal government’s tech and digital transformation agenda with a series of resignation offers from key ministers amid ongoing leadership turmoil. With Australia’s...
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Urgent action beyond just buying new equipment is needed to shore up the cybersecurity of Australia’s electoral system, the Opposition’s cyber spokesperson Gai Brodtmann says. In a submission to...
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The NSW government has announced phase two of its digital driver licence (DDL) pilot, ahead of a state wide roll-out next year. In phase two, more than 140,000 NSW...
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Premier Steven Marshall’s newly-elected government in South Australia has scrapped the state’s startup support agency and axed its chief innovator program as part of a major shake-up of tech...
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Former Digital Transformation Agency chief Gavin Slater has joined established FinTech startup Nimble Australia as CEO with plans broaden the company’s product ranges and customer base, and to apply...
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NSW Innovation and Productivity Council chair Neville Stevens has called for both sides of politics at state and federal to take a bipartisan approach to improving Australia’s overall innovation...
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While NSW leads the nation in startups and venture capital activity, it lags in government investment in R&D and university-industry collaboration, according to the state’s first Innovation and Productivity...
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The Victorian government has funded a blockchain project to secure medical records online, which could be applied to the controversial My Health Record service. It’s part of a $3...
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There are advantages in avoiding the bleeding edge of regulatory reform. This is the case in the Australian government’s drive toward an open banking regime – and by extension,...
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Innovation is about change and new thinking. You would hardly know that from the recent AFR Innovation Summit, which featured speakers making the same well-known talking points, including the...
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The boss of Australia’s only “deep tech super incubator” has a simple message for the NSW government following the unveiling last week of plans for a new tech mega...