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Connick headlines Cyber Leaders

ANZ Banking Group chief information security officer Lynwen Connick will headline InnovationAus.com’s Cyber Security: The Leadership Imperative in Melbourne next month, joining Australia’s Ambassador for Cyber Affairs Tobias Feakin...

Boards wake up to cyber insurance

The cyber insurance market in Australia is still in its infancy with buyers confused by what is on offer and their own accountability levels, but coming mandatory data breach...

New space agency is a huge win

Australian space industry leaders have hailed the Commonwealth’s “historic” creation of a national space agency, saying it will lead to thousands of local jobs and help coordinate the growing...

Regulation ramps the drone sector

For the last month, the Federal government’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) has been seeking comment from individuals and organisations to have their say on safety regulations of drones....

Gilmour Space eyes move offshore

Geographically they may live worlds apart – one resides on the Gold Coast and the other in Singapore. But it doesn’t bother the brothers James and Adam Gilmour, who...

Final frontier has a new agency

Australia will finally get a national space agency to coordinate local efforts in the sector and gain a chunk of the $400 billion global industry, the federal government has...

Skilled visas still broken: McEvoy

The Turnbull government’s overhaul of the 457 visa system needs some serious tweaks if Australia is going to attract the best and brightest to these shores says a submission...

Thodey: More work needed on jobs

Australians cannot just rely on government to set policies and frameworks if the country wants to be prepared for the impact of technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics and automation...

ASIC fires cyber warning shots

ASIC Commissioner John Price has read the riot act, albeit civilly, to both companies and insurers over the need for boards of the former to get their cyber resilience...

Gov’t publishes new crowd rules

The corporate regulator has released the set of guidelines outlining how the first iteration of Australia’s equity crowdfunding regime will work. Crowdsourced equity funding mechanisms for retail investors will...

Ed Husic and the Future of Work

Labor’s spokesman on the digital economy Ed Husic has become a fixture in the innovation and startup sector in the past couple of years. He is a pragmatic original...

VicHyper loops a new direction

Travelling in air-tight pods at 1,000 kilometres per hour is something most would imagine happening only in sci-fi films. But with Hyperloop – an Elon Musk-led vision to develop...

Finkel: Rankings a poor measure

Reports of Australia falling behind in the global innovation race have been greatly exaggerated, according to chief scientist Alan Finkel. Speaking at the Australian Financial Review’s Innovation Summit, Dr...

Marshall channels power of SMEs

The innovation debate in Australia is too focused on startups and tech companies, and needs to be more inclusive of the broader SME sector, according to CSIRO chief executive...