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NBN business model falling apart

The telecommunications industry has delivered the Coalition Government and NBN Co a sharp rebuke over the current business model for the National Broadband Network (NBN). The NBN is a...

Taylor charts new digital direction

The Prime Minister’s point-man on digital government Angus Taylor will today unveil a re-engineering of the Digital Transformation Agenda – one of Malcolm Turnbull’s signature policies – that will...

Defence build a huge opportunity

Being big is not always a prerequisite for being successful. Just ask the South Australian Chief Scientist Dr Leanna Read: If you place your bets in the right areas...

Hunt eyes huge new venture fund

Industry Minister Greg Hunt is considering the launch of a huge new Commonwealth-backed venture fund to support Australian high-growth scale-ups and mid-tier innovators that have found it hard to...

Census debacle: Heads roll at IBM

The two most senior executives running the giant IBM Global Technology Services business in Australia – the service provider behind the 2016 Census debacle – have quietly separated from...

ASEAN is a prize for Aussie tech

One of Asia’s largest banks, HSBC, is the latest group to have belled the cat on the often sleepy Australian business community’s appreciation of the vast opportunities in Southeast...

OpenOpp tracks gov’t SME progress

As digital transformation investments reshape the way Australian governments deliver services to the public, it is also changing the way these governments engage with the tech industry and with...

Stephen Conroy, a man of [f]action

Stephen Conroy really does do things his way. Last Thursday, at 8:53pm at the end of the sitting week, he got up to make a second reading speech on the...

Grant competition to attract SMEs

The federal Department of Industry steadfastly refuses to call it a procurement policy or an industry development program, but the Business Research and Innovation Initiative (BRII) is a new...

Telcos reject NBN access proposal

Telstra, Optus and the Competitive Carriers Coalition (CCC), an industry body representing smaller telecommunication companies including Vodafone, have resoundingly called for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to...

Privacy lobby digs trench, sets gun

An Australia Card scale row is brewing between the government and the Australian Privacy Foundation over the proposed national digital identity regime. The Australian Privacy Foundation (APF), which was...

A-minus for our first tech PM

If a week is a long time in politics, spare thought for the Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, who has now been in the job for a year. His expert...

NSW joins new identity model

The NSW Government has signed up to the Commonwealth’s federated model for digital identity even before detail of the new scheme has been made public, or even been put...

The DTO’s giant revolving door

To the casual observer, the Digital Transformation Office looks like it has become a high-powered revolving door. Lots of people, lots of churn. The latest senior appointment is former Treasury...