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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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”...
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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...
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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....
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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...
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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...