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Chief scientist eyes innovation jobs

Taking over where the former Premier Peter Beattie’s Smart State vision left off, Annastacia Palaszczuk’s Advance Queensland Program aims to make sure that Queensland stays on course to be...

TelcoLand disputes on overcharging

Mobile Virtual Network Operators are the forgotten victims of rampant overcharging and anti-competitive behaviour at the heart of the telco battle about whether or not domestic mobile roaming should...

Taylor launches tech super agency

The Turnbull Government has shredded its 15-month-old Plan A for digital service delivery, with a dramatic restructuring of the Digital Transformation Office into a new tech super-agency that has...

DTA a rose by any other name

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and his McKinsey-trained mate Angus Taylor want to bring order and alacrity to the ever fraught world of government IT projects as the game shifts...

Indigenous ideas for empowerment

The Federal Government should carve out a portion of its $23 million Incubator Support program to build incubators and accelerators targeted exclusively at indigenous businesses and entrepreneurs, according to...

Jack Ma: SME’s own the future

Having a proven entrepreneurial nose for making the right (serial) bets on the next big trends in all things digital – including changing customer behaviour – and then spinning...

Parkinson on our innovation issues

Martin Parkinson’s speech to CEDA’s State of the Nation conference dinner demonstrated how wise Malcolm Turnbull was to bring back to the public service someone capable of understanding so...

ASD search for offensive spooks

The tech-spooky Australian Signals Directorate has been recruiting for offensive cyber operators this month to boost the nation’s digital warfare capability as a newly-released Federal government report describes the...

Govt has forgotten how to govern

Innovation and Science Australia’s decision to appoint an outside consulting house to design a strategy to build Australia’s innovation eco-system is baffling and denigrates the public service resources available...

Malcolm’s Sesame Street moment

“One of these things is not like the others, One of these things just doesn’t belong; Can you tell which thing is not like the others, By the time...

Singapore reboots digital govt

The wealthy city-state of Singapore has once again displayed its relentless focus on providing leadership for the region on tech and innovation with the launch last week of a...

Pay-day loans hit R&D tax scheme

Startups in their critical newborn years need to be fed their R&D refunds more regularly than once every 12 months or risk death by cash starvation. For startups in...

Male, pale and stale will lead to fail

According to the managing partner at EY Lynn Kraus, enterprises cannot expect to innovate from a place of uniformity. And there are specific financial benefits for more diverse workplaces,...

No chance the USO will be dumped

There is “absolutely no chance” that government will end the Universal Service Obligation (USO) at the end of its review of the system, according to Telstra Group Director of...