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Butter Factory arrives in Sydney

York Butter Factory’s big expansion into Sydney is just the beginning of ambitious plans to build a series of innovation precincts across the country in partnership with property giant...

High long-term cost of NBN

NBN Co was tasked by the government with building the National Broadband Network (NBN) with the primary consideration being roll-out cost and time-to-market, irrespective of the ongoing operational and...

Is gov’t space review redundant?

Another federal government review of Australia’s space industry has been slammed by sections of the industry and Federal Labor as “redundant” and “too little, too late” for the local...

Gladys’ $35m new tech startup hub

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian says her government’s $35 million investment in a Sydney Startup Hub in the central business district is the first of several such hubs that will...

Three cheers and a sigh of relief

For Fishburners CEO Murray Hurps, the NSW government’s big reveal of the Sydney Startup Hub was the culmination of a harrowing three year journey. As the largest startup hub...

Innovation in a handout culture

When economists Paul Frijters and Gigi Foster released a study in 2015 arguing Australia was a plutocracy where our richest amass their wealth by political connections rather than innovative...

Dominello on data-centric govt

There is a reason why New South Wales has streaked ahead of its peers in the delivery of digital platforms across government and the transformation of the state’s public...

The core ethics of data analytics

Australian businesses and governments that want to exploit the value in personal data need to first exercise their “moral imagination” because tick-a-box compliance is failing. Speaking at Data Privacy...

The not so rosy micro-node rollout

Labor is making political bacon from an admission by NBN Co that almost all of the 1423 micro-nodes planted on the NBN so far to help boost network speeds...

NBN versus the natural gas rollout

In a blog posted on 5 July, NBN Chief Networking Officer Peter Ryan makes a series of misleading statements about why NBN Co is building a national network dominated by copper-based...

Prof Ian Jacobs on China markets

University of New South Wales president and vice-chancellor Ian Jacobs will deliver a keynote address at InnovationAus.com’s China Money, China Markets forum in Sydney on July 20. Prof Jacobs...

Musk factor a boost for local tech

Elon Musk’s flamboyantly executed grid storage battery deal for spark-strapped South Australia might not have much local industry content, but the buzz has greatly lifted the profile of local...

Beware the wolves of Silicon Valley

The call from a Silicon Valley colleague a year ago led with the news his all-male venture capital firm was courting a female partner. He thought, correctly, that I...

What’s there to write about?

When we sat down two and a half years ago with a reporter we were hoping to hire and revealed a plan to launch a publication focused on public...