Yet another IT failure at the Australian Taxation Office has given the Opposition more ammunition to attack the government’s much-maligned history of digital transformation. During peak tax return time,...
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The Digital Transformation Agency will recruit and place 250 new entry-level digital staff across federal departments and agencies over the next year as part of a drive to improve...
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An open data regime is “just the beginning” of the wave of disruption set to hit Australian banks and open up opportunities for smaller FinTech players, Australian Bankers’ Association...
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Celebrated Australian entrepreneur Jessica Wilson is spending a large amount of her time in Shanghai these days, and is even considering winding down the Western-facing side of her Stashd fashion platform...
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Sydney is ratcheting up its efforts to become a significant player in the nascent quantum economy. The University of Sydney and UNSW both have major quantum computing research initiatives...
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Chinese women rock as business managers, even white guys can make money in China and the steepness of the growth ramps there can help cover up a lot of...
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Stone & Chalk has finally unveiled its long-planned expansion into Melbourne, and it is doing it without the support of the Victorian government. Stone & Chalk’s Melbourne operation will...
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The Australian game development sector has renewed its push to be recognised as a serious industry deserving of support, despite losing its most vocal parliamentary supporter following Scott Ludlam’s...
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The University of New South Wales is about to snap its tech commercialisation partnership with China into high gear which could see its Sino deal flow hit the ‘billions’...
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The Turnbull government has announced plans for legislation to compel tech companies such as Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Google to unscramble the encrypted communications increasingly used by terrorists and...
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The battle between Australian states to be the destination of choice for startups and tech firms is heating up, with South Australia now having entered the fray with a...
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Melbourne-based cross border payments platform Airwallex is one of the Australian startup community’s brightest stars, having attracted an honour roll of global venture capital investment brands to its books....
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Sandy Plunkett has had several careers in the tech industry. I first met her in the very early 1990s when she was a reporter covering the technology beat for...
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The largest survey of the Australian startup ecosystem has launched for another year, with an expanded remit to act as a matchmaker between tech companies and supporters thanks to...