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LaunchVic finally fills vacant chair

Melbourne-based businesswoman and serial board member Laura Anderson has been appointed as the new chair of the troubled LaunchVic, filling a seat that had been left vacant for eight...

NISA critique is way too harsh

The Auditor-General’s recent review of the design and monitoring of the National Innovation and Science Agenda risks throwing out the outcome baby with the process bathwater. Industry development policy...

Taking out the trash: NBN rollout

A Parliamentary Joint Standing Committee report calling for a comprehensive overhaul of the NBN rollout and slamming current processes was quietly released to the public on a Friday afternoon...

Bowen’s landmark Asia pitch

It has been an awfully long time since any political party in Australia gave any serious thought to what US President George H. W. Bush (41) once referred to...

ASIC unveils new ICO guidelines

The corporate regulator has released its first set of guidelines for ICOs – or Initial Coin Offerings – detailing how the ‘Wild West’ of startup capital raising is to...

Cat Matson’s fresh digital agenda

It’s amazing how fast technology can change in five years. Back in 2012 when Brisbane Council released its first Digital Brisbane strategy, it was before Uber had arrived and...

Taylor readies data rights regime

The Federal Government has outlined a new ‘universal data rights’ regime that gives consumers ownership of the transactional data they generate as customers, regardless of whether it is with a...

Taylor readies data rights regime

The Federal Government has outlined a new ‘universal data rights’ regime that gives consumers ownership of the transactional data they generate as customers, regardless of whether it is with a...

The legal sector’s wave of change

The fusion of legal services and digital technology is rapidly changing commercial law and the pace of change is set to explode as technologies like blockchain, contract automation and...

Morrison rejects rogue NISA audit

Treasurer Scott Morrison has rejected a damning Australian National Audit Office’s (ANAO) evaluation of the Turnbull Government’s signature National Innovation and Science Agenda, saying there was “plenty of evidence”...

Tech23 and our deep tech stars

Australia has a long history of ignoring its own deep tech advances – think of the CSIRAC digital computer in the early fifties and solar energy tech in the...

Michaelia Cash’s new space race

Acting Industry Minister Michaelia Cash says the creation of a spanking new National Space Agency marks the start of a “new era” of space science and innovation in Australia....

Improving odds with new OnRamp

Most entrepreneurs learn the ins and outs of running a business by trial and error. But Colin Kinner is hoping to change that, recently launching Brisbane-based pre-accelerator program Startup...

CSIRO’s $10m new satellite play

CSIRO has signed on to a world-class satellite research program that will deliver new data to local companies and governments and put the agency at the “forefront of Australia’s...