The quinquennial Chinese Communist Party Congress, its 19th since winning the country’s civil war in 1949 begins this Wednesday. It will be the coronation of its leader for the...
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When we think about innovation there is a temptation to focus on the bright, the shiny, and the new. Startups fascinate us because they go boldly where no-one has...
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When the ASX-listed accounting giant MYOB set out its formal business plan for 2017, chief executive Tim Reed says the company identified access to skills as the single biggest...
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The Business Council of Australia (BCA) has wasted no time putting corporate tax cuts back on the minds of politicians as they return to parliament this week, claiming that...
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Labor will create a $1 billion fund to help innovative manufacturing firms transition into high value production and “build for the future” if it wins the next federal election....
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When Michael Daniel entered the White House during Obama’s presidency as cybersecurity coordinator, he never thought he’d have to brief the President about how a nation state was attacking...
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The Australian Signals Directorate should be applauded for sharing publicly the details of a serious data breach at an Australian defence contractor at a conference for cyber security professionals...
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Of all the things that are happening in the energy sector in Australia right now, the least talked about but most interesting relates to entrepreneurial innovation in energy-related products...
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The Business Council of Australia wants the local workforce to be skilled up and kept that way through more vocational education and an ambitious lifelong training plan, less we’ll...
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The Australian National Audit Office (ANAO) has found serious flaws with the Department of Communications’ contract management of selected telephone universal service obligations (USO). In a report released in...
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The Queensland government believes it’s on the right the track to helping reduce the disadvantage gap among Indigenous Australians. But Kamilaroi man Dean Foley – the founder of Australia’s...
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Australia’s cyber spooks say they responded to more than 600 “serious incidents” in the last year, and yet no charges and no prosecutions have been made as a result...
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It started with the telecommunications sector, now the Australian government is looking to better ‘safeguard’ other parts of Australia’s critical infrastructure – electricity, water and ports – from potential...
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Innovation and Science Australia chairman Bill Ferris’ aim to hand his 2030 Strategic Plan for the nation’s industry development policies to government this week has been thwarted by circumstance....