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Nick Hanauer at Civic Nation 2018

Seattle-based billionaire entrepreneur, author and venture capitalist Nick Hanauer will deliver a keynote address to InnovationAus.com’s Civic Nation 2018, a tech and social policy forum in Sydney on September...

Qld govt seeks SMB policy input

The Queensland Government is calling on small business owners and early stage startups with fewer than 20 employees to take part in new consultation panels to assist the development...

Is GovPass right for digital ID?

For several years, the DTA has been working on getting its version of digital identity right. When it goes into public beta later this year, the Trusted Digital Identity...

Govt tries to fix MHR mess

The federal government has agreed to make a series of changes to the controversial My Health Record service in the face of widespread public criticism and debate. In a...

Saber Astro wins defence contract

Sydney-based space company Saber Astronautics has secured a $1 million-plus defence contract to roll out an electronic signals damage detection technology. The funding is for phase two of a...

MHR troubles: Hunt steps in

The federal government will make a series of changes to the controversial My Health Record service in the face of widespread public criticism and debate. In a statement late...

Health sector hit by data breaches

The Office of the Australian Information Commissioner was notified of more than two data breaches per day in the last quarter as part of the new notification scheme, with...

Over reliance on R&D tax scheme

The federal government is over-reliant on the R&D tax incentive as its core innovation support policy and should instead focus on direct initiatives like grants and co-investment, Innovation and...

Cash: Govt the innovation enabler

Industry and Innovation Minister Michaelia Cash says the federal government’s role in Australia’s startup ecosystem is as an “enabler” and it’s the industry’s responsibility to drive it. In both...

Labor pledges $3m for AI centre

The federal opposition has pledged $3 million for the creation of a new Artificial Intelligence not-for-profit research centre that would focus on issues of ethics and the future of...

Toby Walsh on the impact AI

Emerging technologies have the potential to greatly impact basic human rights and governments must step up to regulate their use, Australian artificial intelligence luminary expert Toby Walsh said. It...

AMA push for MHR changes

Australia’s most powerful doctors’ group is urging the Commonwealth to clarify the contradictions between its assertions that no medical information will be passed on to authorities with a warrant and...

Facebook’s long march to China

Facebook has been bending over every which way to somehow get back into China after the country’s so-called Great Firewall was significantly jacked up in July 2009, blocking western...

The China supply chain and 5G

The debate about Huawei’s role in Australia’s looming 5G build-out is not going away any time soon. The key issues were outlined in high relief at CommsDay’s ‘Unwired Revolution’...