The federal government has introduced draft legislation for public comment as first steps to amend the existing research and development tax incentive (R&DTI). The proposed changes of the Treasury...
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The Australian government quietly passed the Copyright Amendment (Service Providers) Bill 2017 on Wednesday, but it did not go through without scrutiny altogether. Shadow minister of the digital economy...
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Government members of the Senate committee investigating digital service delivery in government have written a robust and lengthy dissenting report defending the Commonwealth’s tech performance. The stark difference in...
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A review has been launched into a Perth startup’s practice of sharing its users’ medical information with law firms, with doctors and civil rights advocates labelling it an “abuse...
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A new defence and aerospace industry development fund is to be established to help local SMEs access defence contracts both directly and through supply chain opportunities under a new...
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The resignation of Digital Transformation Agency chief Gavin Slater highlights the curiously circular thinking behind government’s ambitions to deliver better digital services to the Australian people. That thinking has...
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New South Wales’ State Librarian, John Vallance, has a frankly astringent view of the state of Australian innovation. “The whole concept of innovation is fascinating especially now that it...
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Government has won bipartisan support from Labor for an increase in the spending cap for the Australian research grants scheme. South Australian Labor MP Nick Champion says the Opposition...
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Adelaide-based startup Fleet Space Technologies is set to launch Australia’s first commercial nanosatellites this year as the local sector continues to rapidly grow. The company has secured two contracts to...
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A study has revealed that millennials are less entrepreneurial than other generations even though some the most successful people are part of that generation – think Mark Zuckerberg of...
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‘C’ is for collaboration and commercialisation: two things Australia is miserably failing in, even though our science and research is top notch, according to the OECD. So, where are...
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The Fair Work Ombudsman has launched legal proceedings against food delivery giant Foodora in what will be a major test case for the under-fire gig economy in Australia. The...
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While the states are gearing up for the competition to host the newly-established space agency, support for the emerging space sector has provided a rare moment of bi-partisan policy...
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Quantum computing is occupying the minds of many crack research teams both here and around the globe, but after a long and over-hyped gestation the technology is intriguing and...