New and emerging technologies are “not disrupters but enablers”, according to FinTech consultant to the Financial Services Commission of Mauritius and global adviser on responsible adoption of financial technology Loretta Joseph, who has spent more than 25 years working in financial markets. “Bitcoin was supposedly going...
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OPINION: According to the government, “the business model of Australia’s free-to-air television business is under severe strain”. In November last year, the government released a “Media Reform Green Paper”...
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Juerg von Kaenel will head a newly launched RMIT University Centre for Industrial AI Research and Innovation after a 36-year career at IBM where he most recently built its local...
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The US, UK and Australia have struck a new defence alliance, dubbed AUKUS, and will construct a fleet of nuclear powered submarines in Adelaide. The submarines will be nuclear...
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A planned rocket launch from South Australia’s Eyre Peninsula has been delayed for the second time in a week after a system failed to come online just before lift...
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Saudi human rights activist and author Manal al-Sharif says Australians are complacent about the rapid growth in digital surveillance and the impact of tech and media monopolies on freedom...
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Australia’s eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant hopes to take the public along with her as her office explores how to implement a scheme that would prevent anyone aged under...
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OPINION: Growing from a small software development agency, working out of a home office, to a team of more than 80 software developers, strategists, project managers and designers, 4mation...
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Deloitte has been handed another $3 million for its work on the redevelopment of myGov, with the federal government now having paid the multinational consulting giant more than $40...
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As momentum builds in Australia’s space industry, local and global space leaders say more growth will hinge on the alliances the country builds with international heavyweights and taking ownership...
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Melanie Perkins’ Sydney headquartered Canva is now worth $US40 billion ($A54.6b), putting her and co-founder Cliff Obrecht’s combined wealth at $A16.38 billion. The valuation comes after the company raised...
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The federal government is paying a global consultancy firm nearly $2 million for two reviews of the Department of Industry’s commercial operations and corporate services, with the latter to...
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OPINON: There’s a passage in Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Sun Also Rises” in which a character named Mike is asked how he went bankrupt. “Two ways” he answers. “Gradually,...
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Some of Australia’s most eminent women’s advocates will this month explore the structural and cultural barriers to equality in the public and private sector, with a focus on where...