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Morrison wants to let the data flow

The Treasurer Scott Morrison has thrown the substantial weight of his office behind draft Productivity Commission recommendations that would give consumers more control over data held by banks and...

NBN’s a can of worms on pricing

NBN Co CEO Bill Morrow told Senate Estimates last week that NBN Co is consulting on a new volume-based discount model that would be made available to individual Retail...

Dave Sharma: Our man in Tel Aviv

Australia’s Ambassador to Israel Dave Sharma is in the country for a couple weeks, in part to drum up business for Austrade’s new startup ‘Landing Pad’ in Tel Aviv....

Our Paris climate accord shame

As the deadline for ratifying the Paris climate accord arrives today (Nov. 4) with a dull thud for a government that has – 11 months later – singularly failed...

AIIA’s new chair to tackle deficit

The Australian Information Industry Association has a new chair, elected at its annual general meeting in Brisbane on Thursday 3 November. He is John Paitaridis, universally known as JP,...

China to surpass US R&D spend

Given the sheer size of the Chinese market and the pointed focus on innovation and technology in serial government announcements in recent years, it had to happen sometime. Now...

FinTech is the new mainstream

Just over half the world’s banking customers now interacting directly with FinTech companies, according to a new report from consultancy Capgemini. The figure is a little lower in Australia,...

Tehan to enlist Cabinet on cyber

Despite a report damning Commonwealth government agencies with having poor cyber security awareness, the Federal government will not move to compel agencies to fix their online security culture. A...

Inter-govt talks on digital identity

The New South Wales Government is in serious talks with the Commonwealth to have its MyServiceNSW identity management infrastructure co-opted by the Australian Government. The move would allow ServiceNSW’s...

Sydney Uni opens new Suzhou base

Innovation and technology will be used as the hooks for Sydney University to launch its first research centre in China – indeed its first facility of any kind –...

Executive orders reveal new DTA

Tectonic plates are shifting inside Canberra’s ICT bureaucracy as the new Digital Transformation Agency ingests large chunks of the Finance Department and metamorphoses into a tech super agency. The...

Cheeriness on NBN is premature

Everybody – at least nearly everybody – loves infrastructure. We love trains and bridges and tunnels and stuff. And politicians love infrastructure more than anybody. They love announcing big...

Telco consumer advocacy reviewed

The government has commenced a public review of telecommunications consumer representation, and research on telecom-related issues being carried out and funded under section 593 of the Telecommunications Act 1997....

Leeanne Enoch to join #OpenOpp

InnovationAus.com is proud to announce Queensland Minister for Innovation, Science and the Digital Economy has joined a stellar line-up of keynote speakers at the Sydney instalment of Open Opportunity...